Death and state funeral of Fidel Castro
Foreign dignitaries attending the state funeral
Most states sent delegations led by high or mid-ranking officials to the funeral; many African and Latin American states sent delegations led by presidents or prime ministers.

Death and state funeral of Fidel Castro

Section Title: Foreign dignitaries attending the state funeral
Table Section Text: Most states sent delegations led by high or mid-ranking officials to the funeral; many African and Latin American states sent delegations led by presidents or prime ministers.

Heads of multilateral organizations

African Union	President	Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma

World Federation of Trade Unions	Secretary-General	George Mavrikos

Heads of state and government

Antigua and Barbuda	Prime Minister	Gaston Browne

Bahamas	Prime Minister	Perry Christie

Bolivia	President	Evo Morales

Canada	Governor General	David Johnston

Cape Verde	President	Jorge Carlos Fonseca

Colombia	President	Juan Manuel Santos

Congo	President	Denis Sassou Nguesso

Dominica	Prime Minister	Roosevelt Skerrit

Ecuador	President	Rafael Correa

El Salvador	President	Salvador Sánchez Cerén

Equatorial Guinea	President	Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

Ethiopia	President	Mulatu Teshome

Greece	Prime Minister	Alexis Tsipras

Guyana	Prime Minister	Moses Nagamootoo

Haiti	President	Jocelerme Privert

Honduras	President	Juan Orlando Hernández

Jamaica	Prime Minister	Andrew Holness

Kenya	President	Uhuru Kenyatta

Mexico	President	Enrique Peña Nieto

Namibia	President	Hage Geingob

Nicaragua	President	Daniel Ortega

Panama	President	Juan Carlos Varela

Saint Lucia	Prime Minister	Allen Chastanet

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Prime Minister	Ralph Gonsalves

South Africa	President	Jacob Zuma

Suriname	President	Dési Bouterse

Uganda	Prime Minister	Ruhakana Rugunda

Venezuela	President	Nicolás Maduro

Zimbabwe	President	Robert Mugabe

Government representatives and others

Algeria	President of the Council of the Nation	Abdelkader Bensalah

Angola	Vice President MPLA Secretary	Manuel Vicente Paulo Kassoma

Argentina	Minister of Foreign Relations	Susana Malcorra

Belarus	Chief of the Presidential Administration	Viktor Sheiman

Belize	Deputy Prime Minister	Patrick Faber

Brazil	Minister of Foreign Relations Minister of Culture Former President Former President	José Serra Roberto Freire Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Dilma Rousseff

Cape Verde	Minister of Culture	Abraão Vicente

China	Vice-President and member of the Politburo	Li Yuanchao

Chile	President of the Senate President of the Chamber of Deputies Minister of Social Development	Ricardo Lagos Weber Osvaldo Andrade Marcos Barraza

Colombia	Representatives of the FARC	Various

France	Minister of Ecology Presidential envoy for Latin America	Ségolène Royal Jean-Pierre Bel

Gabon	President of the Senate	Lucie Milebou Aubusson

Germany	Former Chancellor	Gerhard Schröder

Haiti	Former President	René Préval

India	Home Minister Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker BJP MP INC MP CPI (M) General-Secretary CPI Secretary BJD MP Samajwadi Party MP	Rajnath Singh M. Thambidurai Ramen Deka Anand Sharma Sitaram Yechury D. Raja Jhina Hikaka Javed Ali Khan

Iran	Delegation of the Iranian government	Various

Ireland	Mexico-based Ambassador President of Sinn Féin TD	Sonja Hyland Gerry Adams

Jamaica	Leader of the Opposition, Former Prime Minister	Portia Simpson-Miller

Japan	Member of the House of Representatives	Keiji Furuya

Malaysia	Ambassador to Cuba	Khairi Omar

Mozambique	Former President	Armando Guebuza

North Korea	Member of the Politburo Standing Committee	Choe Ryong-hae

Portugal	Minister Assistant	Eduardo Cabrita

Qatar	Former Emir	Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Russia	Chairman of the State Duma Deputy Prime Minister	Vyacheslav Volodin Dmitry Rogozin

Spain	Former King	Juan Carlos I of Spain

United Kingdom	Minister of State for Europe and the Americas Shadow Foreign Secretary (Labour)	Alan Duncan Emily Thornberry

United States of America	Deputy National Security Adviser Ambassador-designate	Ben Rhodes Jeffrey DeLaurentis

Uruguay	Vice-President Former President	Raúl Sendic José Mujica

Vietnam	Chairperson of the National Assembly and member of the Politburo	Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân

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Juan Carlos Varela was the President of Panama.

final_sentence: Juan Carlos Varela was the President of Panama.