Palm Beach (United States) (AFP) - President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday called Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro a "brutal dictator," but made no overt mention of earlier threats to roll back a historic rapprochement with the communist island nation.
Castro died Friday night aged 90 after defying the United States during a half-century of iron-fisted rule.
He "oppressed his own people for nearly six decades," Trump said in a statement. "Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights." .... https://www.yahoo.com
