Trump Demands ‘Better Deal’ From Cuba, Threatens Obama’s Thaw
‘US President-elect Donald Trump is demanding a “better deal” from Cuba and threatening to scrap the thaw in US-Cuban relations. Some Republicans are urging him to reconsider, while US airlines prepare to resume commercial flights to Cuba after 54 years.
Trump’s comments came as Cuba mourned the death of its former longtime president, Fidel Castro, leader of the 1958 revolution that deposed the US-backed regime of Fulgencio Batista. Washington’s attempts to overthrow Castro led to the imposition of a total embargo on Cuba and a tense confrontation with the Soviet Union in 1962 that almost went nuclear. Castro died on Friday at the age of 90.’
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