27 November 2016, 01:46 GMT
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) — Fidel Castro, one of the world’s longest-serving leaders, died late Friday at the age of 90. His death was announced by his brother and the incumbent Cuban president, Raul Castro.
"Fidel has not passed away. Fidel has been and remains the living history. Several hours after his death Fidel has become closer to the future, than to the past, because he outlined the steps, which we should take in order to come closer to a peaceful future," Maduro said at the ceremony as quoted by the Noticas 24 news portal.
Сastro was born in 1926 in the Cuban village of Biran. He became the country's prime minister in February 1959, and ruled Cuba as a single-party state until 2008, when his brother Raul Castro took over.
