Cuban exiles in Miami celebrate Castro's death

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Residents of Little Havana in Miami came out onto the streets in their hundreds in the early hours of Saturday morning to celebrate the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro.
Many of them claim that he killed innocent people and divided families after he led his rebel army to victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 US presidents during his half-century rule.
Castro died on Friday at the age of 90.
Cuban exiles and their descendants in Miami reflected and celebrated in the hours after the government's announcement of Castro's death.
The news of his death was long anticipated by the exiles who left after Castro took power, and in the decades since.
His reign over the island-nation 90 miles (145 kilometres) from Florida was marked by the US-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
The bearded revolutionary, who survived a crippling US trade embargo as well as dozens, possibly hundreds, of assassination plots, died 10 years after ill health forced him to hand power over to his younger brother Raul.

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