Fidel Castro says Obama’s ‘syrupy words’ were enough to cause a heart attack By Karen DeYoung March 28 at 12:25 PM
A picture made available by the official journal Juventud Rebelde of the March 19 meeting between Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, left, and Fidel Castro, the former president of Cuba, in Havana. (Juventud Rebelde /EPA) By Karen DeYoung March 28 at 12:25 PM
President Obama’s “syrupy” words about brotherhood and shared history, and his call to leave behind the enmity of the past, were enough to give Cubans “a heart attack,” former president Fidel Castro said Monday in his first public response to Obama’s visit to Cuba last week.
“We don’t need any gifts from the empire,” Castro wrote in a scathing article, addressed to “Brother Obama” and published in Granma, the Cuban Communist Party newspaper.
His words were in stark contrast to the feel-good atmosphere of Obama’s three days on the island, where he held a news conference, attended a baseball game with current President Raúl Castro, and delivered a major address.
[Obama addresses the Cuban nation: ‘It is time now for us to leave the past behind’]
Obama did not meet with Fidel Castro during the visit. The 89-year-old revolutionary leader is said to be in ill health and has not appeared publicly, other than in photographs, for some time. Raúl, his brother, replaced him as president in 2008.
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