Leader of the Left Party (Parti de Gauche - PG) Jean-Luc Melenchon delivers a speech next to a portrait of Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, during a ceremony in tribute to the Cuban leader, next to the statue of Simon Bolivar, on November 26, 2016 in Paris. Cuba's socialist icon and father of his country's revolution Fidel Castro died on November 25, 2016, aged 90, after defying the United States during a half-century of ironclad rule and surviving the eclipse of global communism. / AFP PHOTO / PATRICK KOVARIK