Cuba on Thursday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of its revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, who died in Havana in 2016 at the age of 90.
Cuba's Communist Party has spent the week celebrating the late revolutionary leader with exhibitions, concerts, and conferences.
This year’s commemoration of the man whose legacy continues to dominate life in Cuba, comes amid one of the country's worst crises in living memory.
Cubans are facing acute shortages of food and water, and chronic power cuts, exacerbated by a US oil embargo and hardened sanctions.
For many, today's hardship highlights the absence of a leader of the 1959 socialist revolution which saw people given free healthcare and education.
