Gloria Estafan reacts to Fidel Castro's death

After the death of the former president and dictator of Cuba, Fidel Castro was announced, many rejoiced, cried, and reacted in some sort of way.

This was the same for Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan.

She took to Instagram to talk about a “renewed hope.”

She said, “Although the death of a human being is rarely cause for celebration, it is the symbolic death of the destructive ideologies that he espoused that, I believe, is filling the Cuban exile community with renewed hope and a relief that has been long in coming. And although the grip of Castro's regime will not loosen overnight, the demise of a leader that oversaw the annihilation of those with an opposing view, the indiscriminate jailing of innocents, the separation of families, the censure of his people's freedom to speak, state sanctioned terrorism and the economic destruction of a once thriving & successful country, can only lead to positive change for the Cuban people and our world. May freedom continue to ring in the United States, my beautiful adopted country, and may the hope for freedom be inspired and renewed in the heart of every Cuban in my homeland and throughout the world.

Fidel Castro defied the US for almost half a century as Cuba’s dictator.