Jerry Adams Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/jerry-adams/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 29 Nov 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Jerry Adams Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/jerry-adams/ 32 32 Who’s at Fidel Castro’s funeral? https://jjcornish.com/2016/11/whos-fidel-castros-funeral/ Tue, 29 Nov 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/11/whos-fidel-castros-funeral/ President Jacob Zuma and his Zimbabwe counterpart Robert Mugabe are among relatively few heads of state on the 20-page official guest list for Fidel Castro’s funeral. Russia’s Vladimir Putting heads a  list of very good friends of Cuba who’ve elected to send representative to the pay respects to the revolutionary icon. Not surprisingly a raft […]

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]]> President Jacob Zuma and his Zimbabwe counterpart Robert Mugabe are among relatively few heads of state on the 20-page official guest list for Fidel Castro’s funeral.

Russia’s Vladimir Putting heads a  list of very good friends of Cuba who’ve elected to send representative to the pay respects to the revolutionary icon.

Not surprisingly a raft of left Latin American Presidents will be at Fidel Castro’s funeral, showing how the world has changed since he took power in 1959.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appears to be the only European leader there, bolstered by Spain’s former King Juan Carlos.

Former IRA activist Gerry Adams is in Havana because, he says, Fidel was a good friend of Ireland.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a surprise no show.

Castro was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of his father Pierre.

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