Castro's death occasions mourning in Berkeley, D.C. mansions and the Upper East Side of Manhattan where left-wing elites mourn the fallen Communist butcher who served as both inspiration and role model for their plots to take over America.
But among Castro's victims there is joy and celebrationat the long awaited fall of a brutal monster.
News of Fidel Castro’s death prompted celebrations in the streets of Miami’s Cuban-American neighborhood, Little Havana.
Banging pots, pans and drums, they celebrated like it was a family reunion. The most-hated member of the family was gone.
“Satan, Fidel is now yours,” read one man’s sign. “Give him what he deserves. Don’t let him rest in peace.”
News of Fidel Castro's death was quick to reach Miami, the center of the Cuban exile community, where an outpouring of emotion brought jubilant crowds onto the streets of Little Havana.
Some popped champagne corks, others clanged pots and waved the Cuban flag as they cheered the death of a man who defined the lives of so many Cubans through decades in exile in the United States.
Hundreds gathered outside the neighborhood's Versailles restaurant, a longtime haunt of the exile community, spilling out on to the street from the sidewalk as they chanted, sang, danced and took smartphone videos of a historic moment.
Others shouted "libertad" or "freedom," an expression of hope for their compatriots in Cuba.
The party was still going strong Saturday evening, more than 12 hours after the news of Castro's death was first announced on Cuban TV.
Passing motorists added to the cacophony, honking their horns and flashing their headlights in a show of support as they drove down Calle Ocho in the heart of Little Havana.
All Saturday there were waves of celebrations in Little Havana as people cheered and waved Cuban flags. Some sang along with festive music.
Another woman, Margarita Aguilar, 61, came to U.S. when she was 4, and on Saturday she waved the treasured Cuban flag her grandfather left her.
“I’m waving it for my grandfather and my father who both passed away and didn’t get to see this day,” Aguilar said.
“Fifty-eight years later, Castro dies on Black Friday, which is essentially the most emblematic day for capitalism in the Western world,” said ophthalmologist Dr. Oscar Minoso. “It’s really ironic that that would be the case.”
Minoso was born in Spain. His parents fled Cuba before he was born.
Oscar and Maria Minoso are still alive.
On Saturday morning, there was an emotional phone call.
“They feel that this is one of the few victories that they’ve had in their life is to say that they lasted longer than Castro,” Minoso said about his parents.
The media is injecting notes of sadness where it can, but the joy at the fall of their favorite monster by the people is clear.