Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
USA, May 27th. - Former Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel, a friend of Cuba and supporter of the campaigns to lift the blockade, died at the age of 94 in a New York hospital.
A founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rangel—born in Harlem on June 11, 1930—served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 to 2017. He was the first African American to chair the influential Ways and Means Committee.
His death was announced by the City College of New York, where, after retiring from Congress in 2017, he served as statesman-in-residence and launched the Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative to boost jobs in the Manhattan and Bronx areas he called home.
For many, with Rangel's departure, an era passes, not only that of a long-serving, sharp, and defiant congressman, but also that of a generation that blazed trails through dignity, courage, and streetwise.
A message sent to Prensa Latina noted that Rangel's passing is "a great loss," especially because "he was always a friend of Cuba and of our solidarity campaigns in the United States to end the blockade." (Text and Photo: Cubasí)
