PROGRESSIVE Latin American leaders have slammed US president-elect Donald Trump’s “ignorant” comments about Fidel Castro in which he condemned the late Cuban leader as a “brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades.”
The billionaire tycoon tweeted that Mr Castro’s death on Friday gave members of the influential Cuban-American population of Florida “the hope of one day soon seeing a free Cuba.”
Mr Trump’s comments were also echoed by mainstream media across the world and thousands of Cuban exiles in Miami took to the streets to celebrate the revolutionary’s death.

Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely

