Fidel Castro turns 90 – the last major communist figure in the West

As Fidel Castro turns 90 it is 10 years since ill health forced him to hand over power to his brother Raul, but he still revered by many in the country where he led the revolution which ended in 1959. The overthrow of the US-friendly and strongly anti-communist regime of President Fulgencio Batista began 47 years…