HOW PRESIDENT OBAMA ISSUES A STATEMENT AFTER DEATH OF FIDEL CASTRO (1565 hits)
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President Barack Obama extended a "hand of friendship" to Cuba in a statement Saturday morning after the death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Obama offered his condolences to Castro's family, reaffirming that the Cuban people have a "friend and a partner" in the US.
"We know that this moment fills Cubans — in Cuba and in the United States — with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation," Obama's statement read.
