we are grateful that you re with us. good morning, i m christi paul. and i m martin savidge in for victor blackwell. we welcome viewers from the u.s. and around the world. we begin with breaking news from cuba. former cuban leader fidel castro is dead at the age of 90. you just heard the sounds of cheering on the streets of little havana on miami. as cuban exiles escaped his regime celebrated after hearing of his death. although a lot of them are the next generation. very good to point out. in havana, though, take a look there. the streets are quiet. people are finding out. and as cuba s president and fidel castro s brother raul castro made the announcement.
he s going to reverse everything that president obama did. i hope he thinks through it. really it doesn t make a whole lots of sense. our influence is much greater if we have a flow of people and ideas and information between united states and cuba. and the idea of presenting demands to cuba and increasing sanctions is something that we did for 50 years. and it might be support of a primal screen type of approach to foreign policy, but it doesn t do anything, doesn t get us anywhere, and doesn t really do anything to maximum mime american influence in cuba. let me ask you this, as we re seeing images of cuba i don t know if we can pop them up, overnight of people celebrating in the streets. how influential are the families in miami to what may happen in cuba now, are they at all? well, they re influential, certainly. but miami is influential in a different way now. generations ago, the opinion of
so, boris, talk to us about what you remember. do you remember about cuba, and the stories that you re family tells about their time there? unfortunately, i personally don t remember much about cuba. we landed in miami the day i turn 3. the stories they told say life. the reason we moved to the united states is my grandfather was a political prisoner. i ve hurts y i ve heard you guys noting there s no gray area with fidel castro. some people see him as a here row that was perceived in american imperialism. and others find him as a teayra. my grandfather fought in the revolution. not with fidel castro. but he guided the country and
breaking news this morning. former cuban leader fidel castro dead at the age of 90. castro s defiance legacy began in 1959 when he led the cuban revolution. he became the president and it s believed during his rule castro survived several assassination teams. in 2008 after four decades in power, health problems finally forced him to resign and he named his brother raul as his successor. let s bring in philip peters, expert in cuban relations. philip, we ve been watching miami here. overnight, there have been a lot of people on the streets there. many of them have been celebrating this, they ve been shouting freedom. how quickly do you think we will see any sort of change in cuba? or really, at the end of the
and i m martin savidge in for victor blackwell. cuba has declared nine days of mourning after fidel castro has died at the age of 90. his brother raul castro announced his death last night and said that cast throw will be cremated early this morning. translator: dear people of cuba, with profound pain, i have to sadly inform you, to our friends from our america, and to the world, that today, november 25th, 2016, at 10:29 in the evening the commander and leader of the cuban revolution, fidel castro died. the word of castro s death came to miami. the fills of streets of exiles where many viewed him as an enemy of human rights. they were popping champagne, waving the cuban flag and chanting freedom.