It's interesting. I don't recall Wente's outrage when the Harper government mourned the death of the Saudi monarch Abdullah in 2015. The Harper government said the Abdullah was a  “a strong proponent of peace in the Middle East”. 

This is monarch that has sent troops to neighboring countries to suppress major insurgencies by the majority Shia populations against Sunni authoritarian governments. A monarch that ruthlessly suppresses dissent at home. And a monarch that exports an extreme form of Islam in the Middle East that is the source for much of the terror we see going on right now in that region. Of course, part of the reason Harper and his cabinet were so fawning towards this reactionary regime is they wanted to sell it weapons.

So now the Harperites and their allies in the media want to start a narrative about Justin's "man crush" with Fidel. Wow. Some have gone so far, like Ted Cruz, to compare Fidel to Pol Pot. I'd say you have very little credibility.