Threat to end 鈥榙eal鈥 announced by Trump
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DONALD Trump said in a tweet yesterday that he would end the United States “deal” with Cuba unless a better one was made, reflecting the US president-elect’s campaign pledge to reverse President Barack Obama’s moves to open relations with the Cold War adversary.
“If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the US as a whole, I will terminate deal,” Trump said in a Twitter post.
Trump tweeted as Cubans were commemorating Fidel Castro, who led a revolution in 1959 and who ruled the Caribbean island for half a century. Castro died on Friday.
On Saturday, Trump, a Republican, said that his administration would “do all it can” once he takes office on January 20 to boost “freedom and prosperity” for Cubans after Castro’s death.
Trump’s statement sidestepped whether he would follow through on a threat made late in his campaign to reverse Obama’s diplomatic thaw with the island nation, leading some to view it as a softening from his campaign rhetoric toward Cuba.
Castro’s death has led some Cubans to worry that Trump will shut down the US-Cuban trade and travel ties that have begun to emerge in the past two years since Obama’s historic declaration.
Cuba has always fiercely resisted what it sees as US attempts to change its internal political system but the government has stayed mostly quiet on Trump, waiting to see whether the US president-elect converts his harsh rhetoric into a real policy change.
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