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Post by Admin on Nov 27, 2016 20:51:13 GMT
Fidel Castro, former Cuban president and communist revolutionary, divided opinion both at home and around the world. Over 2.5m tweets about Castro and related trending terms have been published on Twitter. The BBC asked people born in Cuba who have moved to other parts of the world how they felt at news of the 90-year-old leader's death. "I was born in Cuba in January 1957, making me two years old when Castro came to power. My family and I left in February 1969. I haven't been back. I understand both my family's hatred for Castro, given that they lost everything, and Castro's positive impact on the poor and dispossessed
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Post by Admin on Nov 29, 2016 18:34:07 GMT
In the aftermath of Fidel Castro's death, you would imagine that America would sense an opportunity. This is a rare moment to put the old grievances to one side and build a bridge to the Cuban people. President Obama's decision to open up a dialogue and re-establish diplomatic relations was a step in that direction. But now diplomacy-by-tweet is about to take over. Donald Trump is raising doubts about the entire framework of a new future for US-Cuban relations. It will infuriate the current Obama Administration and make European governments despair over how future US decision-making will be made.
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