Michael Smith Liam Vaughan Bloomberg

Fidel Castro, whose Cuban revolution turned his Caribbean island into a potent symbol of the world's greatest ideological and economic divides of the 20th century, has died, Cuban state media announced late Friday. He was 90.

Fidel Castro, whose Cuban revolution turned his Caribbean island into a potent symbol of the world's greatest ideological and economic divides of the 20th century, has died, Cuban state media announced late Friday. He was 90.