The latest breaking news in US foreign relations concerning the end of Cuba’s Castro era was debated among Cuban-Americans on the cast of Monday’s Morning Joe. The MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski invited three Cuban-Americans: FOX News contributor and author Humberto Fontova along with GOP strategist Alex Castellanos to discuss former CNN host Soledad O’Brien’s defense of President Obama’s controversial comments about Castro’s “complicated” legacy. Evidently, the death of the Communist dictator who played a central role in sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis at the height of the Cold War, remains subject to ideological interpretation within the mainstream media.
Morning Joe’s segment started with statements by former Republican presidential candidates, Senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas both, prominent Cuban-Americans criticizing President Obama’s friendly relations with America's deadliest neighbor. Castro’s Communist regime was however, actually praised by Canada’s liberal Prime Minister Trudeau while President Obama diplomatically stated that: "history will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him."