Fidel Castro with New Zealand journalist Bernard Diederich. Photo: Supplied
Nine days of mourning have begun in Cuba for Fidel Castro, who died on Saturday aged 90.
New Zealand-born journalist Bernard Diederich was a correspondent for TIME-LIFE and followed Castro into Havana in a tank when Castro's guerrilla army swept to power in 1959.
Now ninety himself, Mr Diederich lives in Miami.
