President Michael D Higgins attracts strong backlash for reaction to Fidel Castro’s death
The Irish President labelled the late Castro as “a giant among global leaders”. President Michael D Higgins has come in for criticism from a number of different sources for his praise of Fidel Castro, the former Cuban President who died at the age of 90 on Friday night. In a statement released on Saturday morning, […]
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Donald Trump’s reaction to Fidel Castro’s death is uniquely Donald Trump
Yep, that’s just about exactly as much gravitas we would expect Trump to have in this situation. One could be forgiven for assuming that the President-elect of the United States would have drafted a thoughtful, measured response to the death of Fidel Castro — the long-serving leader of America’s economic (and occasionally military) adversary, not […]
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