By NAN Staff Writer
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Dec. 2, 2016: Caribbean and Latin American leaders are in Cuba ahead of Sunday’s funeral of former Cuban President and Revolutionary, Fidel Castro. The 90-year-old former head of state’s body was cremated on Saturday but thousands are expected to pay tribute to Castro on Sunday December 4th at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba, the island’s second largest city and site of the beginning of the Cuban Revolution in 1953. Here are the leaders who will be present:
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
Ecuador President Rafael Correa
Boliva President Evo Morales
Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega
Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe
South African President Jacob Zuma
Suriname President Dési Bouterse
Panama President Juan Carlos Varela
Cape Verde President Jorge Carlos Fonseca
President Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
President of Uganda Ruhakana Rugunda
President of Namibia Hage Geingob
Greek Prime Minister Alexi Tsipras
Chairman of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne
Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie
Saint Lucia Prime Minister Allen Chastanet
Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves
Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao
Former Argentina President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Brazil former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Uruguay’s José Mujica
Former Spanish King Juan Carlos I
Gerry Adams, the former leader of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA
Algerian National Council President Abdelkader Ben Salah
Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of North Korea
Actor Danny Glover
Those who will be absent are:
Russian President Vladimir Putin
China’s President Xi Jinping
North Korean leader Kim Jung-un
UK Prime Minister Theresa May
France’s President Francois Hollande
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang who is sending National Assembly chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Nga in his place.
US President Obama who is sending an unofficial U.S. delegation.
