already a military presence on the streets. that s not something you usually see on the streets. imconstantly surprised how things don t occur the way you expect they would. i am watching cuban television right now. there is old documentaries about fidel. you wouldn t know by watching the government tv channel, the only news service that cuban residents receive, that fidel had died. the website, the official website of the party hasn t been updated. raul castro told me for years they wanted to be the ones to announce this news. they were tonight. they were very much concerned because of all the rumors over the years that the news would like in miami. very clearly because i ve been talking to officials who are fairly high-ranking officials and they did not know this.
their lives, whether they wanted him to or not for so many years. his speeches cubans were forced to go listen to them and they were played on all the radio and tv here and really alive a life for decades revolved around fidel castro in cuba. that has come to an en. breaking news. again that many are learning from him. lets he look at images from miami. the reaction there. people as we are learning from our affiliates many are sill brating in the streets, celebrating th death of this former cuban leader. let s bring in a reporter from the miami herald live on the phone with us. thank you for being with us through the night. let s get your thoughts when you first heard this news. what did you think? well first of all i thought that it needed to be resourced. because there is a lot of or
have a change of government in the united states and the disappearance of fidel castro in cuba, and you have two possibilities. one is that because the trump factor could affect the way cuban government will behave, or they may try to be even more closed society because they feel they are in danger with the enemy. that is something that could happen. or it could happen in the other way, that raoul castro without the weight of fidel castro, he could change the course of the revolution and could try to find a way to have a better relation with the united states and at the same time trying to open the
little havana in miami as people celebrate the news of his death. as a columnist just pointed out in cuba people are just learning the news. in fact, some just learned it from our correspondent. cnn will be on top of this. we will be back after the break.
welt cull back to ow viewers here in united states and around the world. 45 minutes past the hour. 2:00 a.m. on the east coast and cnn is following breaking news. fidel castro dead at the age of 90 years old. the images you see here from cmn affiliate wsvn in little a vana where people are celebrating in the streets. there s rain coming down, but this is a place where people come together to talk politics outside the famous versailles restaurant in little havana. many people are excited, many people are relieved and thrilled to hear the news that the former cuban leader has died at 90 years old. to give a little background on fidel castro, born august 13th,