All Eyes on Trump as Two-Year U.S.-Cuba Thaw May Be in Limbo
- Incoming chief of staff says Cuba must show ‘some movement’
- President-elect has said he wants to make a better deal
What Fidel Castro's Death Means for Cuba and the West
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Donald Trump started to put his stamp on a more muscular foreign policy Saturday with a toughly-worded statement following the death of Cuba’s Fidel Castro that begged the question of where U.S.-Cuba policy is headed under the new administration.
The president-elect eschewed the diplomat-speak of President Barack Obama, who offered his condolences to the Castro family in an anodyne statement. Instead, Trump tore into the newly-deceased dictator in perhaps the clearest example since this month’s election of the two men’s sharply different world views.