Independents and others is 2027488002. We will look for your comments on social media. We will look for your comments on cspanwj or facebook. All over the Television News this morning and the internet, the New York Times website, here is a look at their lead story. Fidel castro, cuban revolutionaries who defied u. S. Dies at 90 in a right that if the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the cold war to 1959 andemisphere in then defied the United States for nearly half a century as leader, briefly pushing 2 the brick of nuclear war died on friday, he was 90 years old. It was announced by cuban state television. He had been in declining health for a number of years. Looking for your reaction this morning, your thoughts on the future of u. S. Cuba relations. With a change in our presidency with donald trump, no word or tweets from donald trump. The changes the Obama Administration had put into 2014, weginning in showed you decline raising in 2015 at additional policies announced by the president earlier this year in history to havana. We will show you that in a bit. Story, fidel castro dies at 90. An old picture of fidel castro in the glasses with his trademark combat fatigues. Caribbean island into a potent symbol of the worlds greatest ideological and economic divides of the 20th century has died. The son of a prosperous sugar planter, he took power in cuba on new years day 1959, promising to share the nations wealth with its poorest citizens who have suffered under the corrupt order Center Quarter batista. Ictatorship of interested in your reaction and ring we are joined by we are hearing reaction, what have you seen so far overnight . Surreal, manyty people in miami have been waiting for decades for what happened last night. There were entire stores dedicated to selling flags and memorabilia for five years, 10 years for this one moment. Rumors had been spread that he had died there people would start gathering at the same spot in Little Havana in miami. Of people, it was surreal that this was the night it happened. Davis versailles, a a famous cuban cafe and there were hundreds up to 1000 people on the streets banging pots and pans, haunting, there was dancing, champagne, it was a ofebration but a little bit anger and chanting against raul castro and there was also a lot of People Holding framed photographs of parents and grandparents who had not lived to see this day. A little bit of everything but mainly a giant party that is still going on. Host we are showing videos you have been including. What about the makeup of the crowd . There has been a change in u. S. Attitude and policy toward cuba, what does the crowd want to see after the death of fidel castro . Ask peopleying to the same question but overall the death of fidel castro and the reaction in miami was much more symbolic than policy oriented. Nobody thought of a specific thing that would bring about change, especially given the change in cuban relations over the last year. It was this kind of euphoric relief. A lot of frustration from the years. , i asked care much them about the thoughts of what would change, and they just had the tyrant is dead chanting energy. To discuss a night policy and a lot of them thought it was going in the right direction with the opening of relations and the older cubans did not think so. There is a generational gap. Get very far asking them those questions because it was more of a symbolic celebration of something that anyone under the age of 50 grew up kind of hearing, every new year, the toast was next year in cuba, and the Younger Generation obviously is not going back after all these years. Host we appreciate you joining us after reporting overnight. Thank you for sharing your video with us as well and she is on twitter if you want to follow the story. Thanks again. News that fidel castro dies overnight at the age of 90, we want your reaction come in particular, what is next in terms of u. S. Policy towards cuba. , kirby int line winstonsalem, north carolina, good morning. Ahead. On the line, go i guess we do not have you. Robert in tarzana, california. Go ahead. I turned on the tv this morning and i saw the people celebrating. Host we lost you. Sorry about that. 2027488000 is the number to call for democrats. Republicans, 2027488001. , 2027488003 and on twitter cspanwj. Members of congress very vocal in the florida delegation and elsewhere. Dead was treated and a new beginning can don on the oppressed island of cuba, people must be guaranteed liberty. Just wonswoman who reelection, growing up in miami, i saw how Fidel Castros control of cuba tour of our families and destroyed lives in both of our countries. Be wrote that castro will forever remembered as a failed tyrant who neglected human rights that brought more than 50 years of poverty to cuba. He and his followers are relics of the previous century. And finally, she said with Fidel Castros passing, we double our nations resolve to seek cuba libre, a free nation and free people at last. Lets hear from you and your thoughts. Clinton pennsylvania, ray. Know, a government is putting out information that is incorrect. Castro, ourfidel cia and the 1950s dedicated men and overthrowing a brutal dictator. Destroyer, picked him up in nicaragua and where thed them to southeastern part where guantanamo is now and give him a bunch of arms to start the revolution. What he did was break the pact with america that he would receive a stipend and not demand any more from the American Companies doing business there. That is why they got rid of batista who was a brutal dictator. It was only a small percentage of people who owned most of cuba. Now, the the ones ancestors in southern dade county, they want to take over all the land. The dell castro broke the pact and turned on the United States and kicked everybody out. The only place we could go ed, we start him out starv him out hoping they would get rid of him. Host what about the arc of changes in the Obama Administration in terms of what they have done so far in terms of cuba . Caller you will not be successful by trying to not do business with them, everybody else in the world is doing business with cuba, even canada. You have to risk flying down there, what is the reason behind this . Nothing but political, especially with the Republican Party, they get that part of the vote in south florida, the cubans, that is what controls florida. It turns it for the republicans in the election and if you turn on those people, the ancestors of those who left cuba, they will turn on you at vote democratic. Obama was trying to do is turn those people to the democrats. Voted fore republicans and republicans wanted to remain a key to keep cuba isolated but you cannot starve them out. We are doing business with china, oppressive, why cant we do business with cuba . I do not understand why the American People can see this. Host your thoughts, brett, on the passing of fidel castro. Caller good to talk to you. I think it is a prayer that he died. He has confined the cuban people for long enough. As far as obama going down there , i think it is a said. Vladimir putin i think it is a dom sin. I think Vladimir Putin should take a listen, i think the ayatollah, our friends and china should see the example, you cannot oppress the people. You cannot do that. You cannot portray evil throughout the world. Host the news of the dow castros passing announced late friday, early this morning, reports indicated his remains will be cremated at a funeral, initial reports say it will be next sunday december 4 with no word on whether the u. S. Will send a representative or whether that will be president obama. The president visited cuba in march of this year. The 1950sime since that a u. S. President had been to havana. This is part of what president obama said in march. President obama my messages to the cuban government and cuban people. The starting point for every revolution, americas revolution, cubas revolution, the liberation movements around the world. Those ideals find interesting fresh and i believe in democracy. Not because american democracy is perfect but because we are not and we, like every country, need the space of markers he gives us to change. Democracy the space gives us to change. We can reimagine how Society Needs to be and make them better. Already an evolution taking place inside of cuba, a generational change. Many suggested i come here and ask the people of cuba to tear something down but i am appealing to the young people of cuba who will lift something up and build something new. [speaking spanish] [applause] host the president at the end of the speech said the future of cuba was in the hands of the cuban people. Reid on ourington, republican line, what do you think of the u. S. Cuba relations after Fidel Castros death . Caller most conservatives praise his death. Witch is dead. Googlepeople would castro brothers wealth. Shows how site that many hundreds of millions of dollars they have reached. Youtube, fidelon castros speech, you will see black and white footage of him on the stage making his speech after he had taken over as dictator. Y let loose a cage of dogs doves and one landed on his shoulder, the crowd thought it was a sign of god. Another captured that the dove defecated on his uniform and flew off. You showed the president s speech comparing the American Revolution to the cuban revolution. Degrees different, the cuban revolution was a dictator implementing socialism which leads to complement that communism, the American Revolution was opposite of that and it is astounding that the president compared it to which are completely different. Our countrycrats in try to make the argument that socialism is different, not like it used to be, that it does not lead to communism. Look at the dictator when he took power, he immediately was russia, ap of communist nation and was until he died and his brother today is still in the cap with china camp with china, a communist nation. Trump rolls back everything president obama did with respect to cuba. Earlier, all said we do is increase their wealth with american dollars. The site i wrote down is therea lcuba. Com. I am not promoting host do you know who runs that site . Caller i googled it this morning, i am not promoting it. There are adjacent sites where you can see how much money the they have made. Bernie sanders ran for president as a socialist, if you are to google his past, he praised the 1985 fidel castro and he said in his does on the political stash said it sandinistas. Democrats,488000 2027488001 republicans, 2027488002 for all others. A funeral will be december 4. Isction on twitter, cspanwj where eason is a tweet. Is where you send us a tweet. Back to the calls, fredericksburg, virginia, republican line. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. Everybody needs to be concerned about the cubans, the amount of money they get when they come to america for free. Another member of the family comes in and gets 15,000 if they come to america. We have been the greatest hoax in the world has been perpetrated on the United States in the last 80 years and this is a continuation of it. The gentleman that just spoke about what obama had said about cuba, Everyone Needs to note that an common sense need to prevail in the United States. If this ever happens again possibly and possibly donald trump may be the individual to put it into play. Host money that cuban immigrants, those who flee cuba for america get it, whenou can google you arrive into america, you get an amount of money if you are from cuba, i do not understand it all, i do not understand much of what goes on in giving people that have never paid taxes money when we struggle to work your cell selling and get your kids through college and pay the taxes, moreney in than college, more than two, it is an absurdity more than food, it is an absurdity. Host we heard about the celebrations, the Associated Press reporting, they said within a half an hour of the cuban governor governments official announcement fidel castro had died, host democrats line, rona, virginia, good morning. Roanoke, virginia, good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. Fidel castro was a tyrant and i am glad he died of natural causes. Everyone should die of natural causes. Many people died in jail just for opposing and speaking out against castro. Some of them could be as young as 15 or as old as 82. And you would not get good treatment in cuba for a long time if you told if you knew d about castro and express yourself. Peace be with him. I am glad he is gone for now. He had family around him when he died. Thank you. Host winstonsalem, north carolina, kirby, i am sorry, hang on a second. In winstonsalem, north carolina. Sarah, in westfield, indiana, independent line. Caller this is a great day, america is a great nation. , i was bornafrica and raised in africa, i was invited to come here. Explain, america is at a great advantage when we open our borders and get cuba involved because if you think if the borders were open, people over there could be happier in america, it is a country that can take millions of people and the very strong and very resourceful. , i wascame to america nothing, i helped American Companies be much bigger than what they are. Deliver a plan which will bring the American Health care system which will on thess than a quarter dollar, at 76 years old, my brother is a doctor and he could not help people and a lot of doctors do not help. Health less than 4000 in my whole life. Host we go to alex and maryland, in maryland, independent line, your thoughts on the death of fidel castro. Caller he was the best thing to happen in cuba and the worst thing to happen in cuba. The worst because he stopped the right of due process, you could be jailed for just about anything. You could not get out necessarily and the best thing to happen because he brought medicine and education to the poor. Batista never would have done that. That was a great thing for the general public of cuba. It is with both regret and with joy that he has passed. Caller winston, salem north winstonsalem, north carolina, kirby, independent line. Caller i am a person of caller and i have a second cousin whose father is from cuba. Before castro, they still have civil rights problems. Before castro the congressman from the south would go to cuba and his family was discriminated against and some still have problems. The treatment was no different than it was in north carolina, mississippi, alabama, louisiana, so when we talk about the people who remained in cuba and those who went to miami, we need to remember that it was not all just castro, it was both sides. About the racism and discrimination that happened before he took over. We still do not see many people of color in his administration but it is better for the people now than before. Host early in the morning on the east coast and the news of death announced overnight and no word on any possible Funeral Plans attended by u. S. Officials. We hear reports that the funeral will be next sunday it santiago, cuba. 2027488000 is the number to call for democrats. 2027488001 is the number to call for republicans. Miami herald, fidel castro is the and they write about story goes fidel castro who towered over his caribbean island for more than five decades with his bearded figure in combat fatigues, his long shadow across latin america and the world is dead at 90, his brother announced the death late friday night. Millions cheered on the day he entered havana and millions more fled the communist dictators repressive police state leaving behind their possessions, families, the island they love, and often their very lives, part of the paradox of castro that many people belong to both groups. Oscar in silver spring, republican line, your thoughts . Caller and my on the air . Host go ahead. Caller people have not brought up the fact, they are cheering his death but those are mostly the white humans, really the spaniards, he fought racism on the island. Who left of the people with the white spaniards who had oppressed people and to have gotten all the money. Thatact of the matter is things have gotten better for people of color there. An earlier caller said the American Revolution was the exact opposite, in typical racist fashion they refused to mention that the American Revolution had its very foundation with slavery and oppression of native americans. Cuban revolutionary revolution was better because everybody had liberation, not just for quite males. White males. Host the inspiration for the front pageution this morning of the New York Times talks about the exodus of venezuelas leaving that country in the wake of economic calamity. The front page story with a picture of people boarding votes off of venezuela for the caribbean island of curacao, they say venezuela was once one of latin americas richest countries, flush with oil wells that attracted immigrants from places as varied as europe and the middle east, after president hugo chavez fell to break the countrys economic elite and redistribute wealth to the poor, the rich and middle class that the more welcoming countries in drove, creating what demographers described as venezuelas first the aspera diaspora. 150,000one is underway, venezuelans have fled the country in the last year, the highest in more than one decade according to scholars studying the exodus. I will show you part of the second page of the story on the exit is of venezuelans, and inprovided oil exchange for medical care and other trade with cuba over the years until the decline in oil prices. On that story of venezuelans living backcountry, the New York Times says despite the desperate venezuelas are streaming across the amazon basin by the tens of thousands to reach brazil. They are concocting elaborate scams to sneak through airports in the caribbean nations that once accepted them freely. When venezuela opened its border with colombia for two days in july, 120,000 people poured across to buy food. An untold