Burying Castro; engaging Cuba
It is yet to be seen if Trump will prove to be the business-like president he promised to be, or will he reverse the US-Cuba relationship back to the Cold War era
Washington
THE death of Cuba's Fidel Castro has sparked another of those nasty Twitter wars that have become so common in our new digital age, as we enter the Age of Trump when America's Commander-in-Chief also happens to be its Tweeter-in-Chief.
Leading the offensive on Twitter were Castro haters who have been waiting for this moment for decades, including members of the Cuban-American community in Miami who rejoiced in the city's streets at Mr Castro's death on Nov 25 and bashed online any American media organisation that did not refer to the dead leader as a "dictator". Like The New York Times, for example, whose front page headline read: "A Revolutionary Who Defied the US and Held Cuba in His Thrall", as opposed to The Washington Post that described Mr Castro as "Dictator who defied US".
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