Fidel Castro, a towering giant of the 20th century whose audacious military campaign against the Apartheid regime helped bring freedom to South Africa and several other countries, was celebrated as a progressive revolutionary with few peers following his death at 90.
Raul Castro, Fidel's younger brother who took over the presidency in 2006, announced his death on state television on Friday night.
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