I am glad I visited Cuba soon after former President Barack Obama began to ease travel restrictions as part of his diplomatic detente. Now, President Donald Trump is intimating he might quash one of Obama’s key foreign relations triumphs, the opening of U.S-Cuba relations put on hold for nearly 60 years. In a tweet tapped out three days after Fidel Castro’s Nov. 25 death, Trump threatened: “If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the U.S. as a whole, I will terminate deal.” With Trump, it’s difficult to tell if this is just cyberbullying in what New York Times columnist David Brooks calls Trump’s...
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