Fidel Castro is not pleased with President Obama following his visit to Cuba last week.
In Granma, the official state newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party, the former Cuban leader was not pleased that Obama met with current Cuban President Raul Castro on his visit, but not his brother Fidel, among a number of other things.
“Native populations do not exist at all in the minds of Obama,” Castro wrote in a 1,500-word letter. “Nor does he say that racial discrimination was swept away by the Revolution; that retirement and salary of all Cubans were enacted by this before Mr. Barack Obama was 10 years old.”
Castro criticized Obama’s calls to “forget the past” and “look to the future.”
“My modest suggestion is that he reflects and doesn’t try to develop theories about Cuban politics,” Castro wrote of the president.
Castro, now 89, then laid into the United States for the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, saying, “Nothing can justify this premeditated attack that cost our country hundreds of killed and wounded.”
Cuba, Castro concluded, “has no need of gifts” from the United States. “Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, because it is our commitment to peace and brotherhood of all human beings living on this planet,” he wrote.
During his three day historic trip to Cuba, Obama participated in a number of activities, including taking in a baseball game. The trip came on the heels of the White House announcement in December 2014 to move to normalize relations with the communist nation for the first time since the 1960s.
