Cuban family reveals complex reaction to Castro death
SANTA CLARA, Cuba — When Nancy Belcourt was a girl, two of her uncles fled their home in the central Cuban countryside to join rebels fighting a counter-revolution against Fidel Castro.
One was shot to death by firing squad, his bones found by Belcourt’s family many years later. Another was shot and killed while fighting Castro’s men in the Escambray mountains in 1963. Belcourt remembers his frozen remains arriving in a wooden box, water from the slowly melting body dripping onto the floor.