Fidel Castro Passage Analysis

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The central idea of this passage is about Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro died at age 90 a week ago. Fidel’s death cheered Cuban exiles in Florida who fled from Castro’s government. All though Fidel had made many accomplishments before his death. Fidel lived long enough to see Raul Castro negotiate with Barack Obama about the trade embargo the U.S. placed on Cuba in 1961.
The section that I found to be most interesting was Castro’s journey to power. Reasons why I said this is because it shows how Castro was. Castro’s own daughter and sister fled from his government so there must have been something wrong with how he ruled Cuba. Castro also closed non-government newspaper’s so people most likely were not getting the true news about what is happening.

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