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| Donald Trump has said he will "terminate" the deal between the US and Cuba if the Cuban government does not improve the deal on offer. | Donald Trump has said he will "terminate" the deal between the US and Cuba if the Cuban government does not improve the deal on offer. |
| President Barack Obama has worked to improve relations with the communist government in Havana, culminating in his historic visit in March 2016. | |
| But the president-elect threatened in a tweet to put an end to the thaw. | But the president-elect threatened in a tweet to put an end to the thaw. |
| His tweet came as thousands of Cubans queued to pay their respects to Fidel Castro, who died on Friday. | His tweet came as thousands of Cubans queued to pay their respects to Fidel Castro, who died on Friday. |
| "If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the US as a whole, I will terminate deal," Mr Trump wrote on Monday. | |
| What does a Trump presidency mean for US-Cuba relations? | |
| The Republican had promised to reverse the Obama administration's Cuban thaw late in his campaign. | |
| Hours after the 90-year-old leader of the Cuban revolution died, Mr Trump said he was a brutal dictator, but his statement at the weekend made no mention of his campaign pledge. | |
| Earlier in the campaign, he had said he was "fine" with Mr Obama's policies on Cuba. "Fifty years is enough time, folks," he said during a CNN televised debate. | |
| On his visit to the island, Mr Obama said change would happen in Cuba and that Cuban President Raul Castro - Fidel's brother - understood that. |