Third World Titan, Cuba former leader, Fidel Castro is dead

Fidel Castro, a titan of the Cold War who defied 11 American presidents and thrust Cuba onto the world stage, 
has died at age 90.
Cuban state-run television said the former long-time president died at 7pm local time. Castro's brother and current president, Raul Castro, confirmed the news.
The US government spent more than $1bn trying to kill, undermine or otherwise force Castro from power, but he endured unscathed before old age and disease finally took him.
His supporters in Havana described him as a tireless defender of the poor.
Castro was "a giant of the Third World", said Agustin Diaz Cartaya, 85, who joined Castro in the 1953 attack in eastern Cuba that launched the revolution. "No one has done more for the Third World than Fidel Castro."
Critics say Castro drove the country into economic ruin, denied basic freedoms to 11 million Cubans at home and forced more than a million others into exile.
"In 55 years, the Cuban government has not done anything to help the Cuban people in terms of human rights," said Hector Maseda, 72, a former political prisoner who lives in Havana. "I don't believe in this regime. I don't trust it."