Cuba ends week of Castro events

HAVANA--Cuba marked the first anniversary of the death of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Saturday, with political and cultural events, as part of the weeklong commemoration across the Caribbean island country he led for 48 years.

At the University of Havana, where Fidel Castro "became revolutionary", according to his own words, thousands of people attended a public gathering chaired by the First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Jose Machado, second secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba.

The speakers and attendees recalled with songs and poems the exemplary life and work of the man who defied the dictatorship of former strongman Fulgencio Batista and later the enmity of 10 United States administrations.