Leading Republicans condemned Fidel Castro on Sunday but uncertainty remained over whether the incoming Trump administration would make good on campaign promises to reverse the normalization of relations instigated by President Obama. Trump unlikely to reinstate embargo after death of Fidel Castro, analysts say Read more“You wouldn’t go to Pol Pot’s funeral,” Texas senator Ted Cruz told ABC’s This Week. Rubio, who has long been one of the harshest critics of Obama’s efforts and has links to Cuban Americans in Miami who celebrated news of Castro’s death, said the president’s comments were “pathetic”. “Barack Obama is the president of the most powerful country in the world,” he said. Read moreFollowing Castro’s death, Trump issued a statement that called Castro a “brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades”.

Source: The Guardian November 27, 2016 18:00 UTC