The death of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, the founder of the Cuban Communist Party and Cuban socialist cause, is a great loss to the Cuban and Latin American people as well as to the world socialist development.

Castro, who died late Friday at the age of 90, deserved to be called a shining figure of the times.

Castro was born on Aug 13, 1926 in Biran, a village in Holguin province, as the son of Spanish immigrant Angel Castro and Cuban farmer Lina Ruz.