Revolutionary leader fidel castro. This morning presideelect donald trump threatened to roll back recently restored relations with the island nation. In a tweet he wrote, if cuba is willing to make a better deal for the cuban people, the cuban american people, and the u. S. As a whole, i will terminate deal. The tweet came the same day commercial flights to the island nation resumed. American airlines took off from miami, jetblue departed from new york. Michelle carusocabrera reports tonight from havana. Reporter although fidel castro stopped ruling cuba ten years ago, his presence loomed large until the end. Observers have long speculated that his successor, younger brother raul, might make more meaningful economic changes once fidel was gone. The Economic Reform Program that raul began in 2011, which is to move toward more of a market socialism on the china model, was something that fidel castro had always rejected himself. And the normalization of u. S. cuban relations is something
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