The former Cuban president warned of great dangers against humanity and said world powers like Russian Federation and China can’t be subjected to threats from any other country that is capable of using nuclear weapons.
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In an article published by official media late Friday, Castro showed that he had lost little of his old fire, particularly when it comes to his longtime enemy the United States.
The piece goes on to reminisce a younger time in Castro’s life, discussing his father and his younger brother, who now rules in his stead, and takes a few jabs at current USA president Barack Obama, particularly criticizing his May speech in Hiroshima for not including an apology for dropping the first atomic bomb on that city at the close of World War II.
“I nearly laughed at the Machiavellian plans of United States presidents”, Castro said in the article published late on Friday. Several of those have been substantiated by USA officials; some reportedly involved slipping poisoned or explosive cigars to the cigar-loving Cuban leader. For a time, many even speculated that he had died and his brother Raul was keeping it a secret for fear that the news might incite a new Cuban Revolution overthrowing the nearly six-decade-old one-party system the Castro brothers have historically controlled.
“He suffered quite a bit”, Castro wrote. Raul’s most broadly feted accomplishment since taking power has been implementing a detente with the United States after a half century of confrontation.
Castro last appeared in public in April, closing the twice-a-decade congress of the Cuban Communist Party with a call for Cuba to stick to its socialist ideals amid ongoing normalization with the U.S.
Dressed in a blue tracksuit and speaking in a trembling voice, he seemed to say goodbye.
Mr Obama had apparently angered the former leader when he urged Cubans to look toward the future during a landmark trip to the country in March, which heralded a watershed moment in relations between the two nations.
His bitterness over that botched Central Intelligence Agency plot played a part in pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis the following year.
The Soviet Union agreed to his request to send ballistic missiles to Cuba.
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As Fidel Castro nears his 90th birthday on August 13, the island’s brightest economic hopes lies in a post-detente surge in tourism that’s expected to boom when commercial flights to and from the United States, Cuba’s longtime enemy, start again on August 31. This news story is related to Print/142364-Castro-lashes-out-at-US-for-90th-birthday/ – breaking news, latest news, pakistan ne.
