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Friday, September 30, 2011

Fidel: Obama talk ' Kauderwelsch

27 September 2011 08: 22 GMT state Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Venezuelan television journalist Mario Silva (left) talk during an interview in Havana on 4 September 2011 - picture released by CubaDebate Fidel Castro has interviewed Venezuelan television in early September Cuba's ex-leader Fidel Castro says US President Barack Obama of the last address to the United Nations was "Gibberish" and an attempt to justify the "unjustified".

In his first published article since July, Fidel Castro condemned also the bombing by the United States and their NATO allies to Libya as a "flagrant crime".

Fidel, 85, who in the year 2006 passed the Presidency to his brother Raul had a low profile in recent months.

That has fueled new speculation about his health, say correspondents.

Fidel States targeting Castro's latest two-part article the United in his long-standing ideological enemy.

Extensively cited by Mr Obama speaking at the UN General Assembly last week said Fidel Castro, the leader of U.S. tried "to explain the unexplainable and unjustifiable that not to justify".

"Who is this gibberish of the President of the United States before the General Assembly?" Fidel Castro wrote.

The U.S. leaders the situation in several countries, including Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and Libya, had distorted, Fidel said Castro.

"Has any nation from the bloody threats that famous defender of international peace and security excluded?" Mr. Castro said.

The articles are part of the "Reflections" writes former Cuban leaders and released by State media.

He had not one his columns recently written by Fidel Castro said: due to the other work, which occupied all his time.

Fidel Castro, Cuba was his younger brother, Raul, who has been officially confirmed in the post in February 2008 for almost 50 years before taking over the Presidency.



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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Fidel Castro calls Obama U.N. speech "gibberish"

AppId is over the quota
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By Jeff Franks

HAVANA | Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:26am EDT

HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro accused President Barack Obama of speaking "gibberish" in his recent address to the United Nations and called NATO's actions in Libya a "monstrous crime" on Monday in his first opinion column since early July.

Castro, 85, has been mostly out of sight the past few months, which combined with the absence of his usual steady flow of columns, had prompted rumors his health was worsening.

He wrote he was involved in work that occupied all his time and therefore he had not been writing what he calls his "reflections." But he said he wanted to comment on the U.N. General Assembly in New York and in particular Obama's speech last week.

The reflection was published on Cuban government website www.cubadebate.cu.

Castro was his vintage self in his latest piece, blasting Obama and the United States, his ideological foes and favorite rhetorical targets, for what he views as bellicose and hypocritical behavior. He called Obama the "yankee president."

Castro, who led Cuba for 49 years before health and age forced him to cede power to younger brother Raul Castro in 2008, quoted extensively from Obama's General Assembly speech, inserting paragraphs of his opinions of the U.S. leader's words.

"In spite of the shameful monopoly of the mass information media and the fascist methods of the United States and its allies to confuse and deceive world opinion, the resistance of the people grows, and that can be appreciated in the debates being produced in the United Nations," he wrote.

Castro called into question many points in Obama's speech, accusing him of misrepresenting the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. policy on Israel and Palestine and the uprisings this year in several Arab nations.

"Who understands this gibberish of the President of the United States in front of the General Assembly?" he asked.

He said the General Assembly presented political difficulties for many countries trying to decide the positions they should take on numerous issues.

"For example, what position to adopt about the genocide of NATO in Libya?" Castro wrote. "Does anyone wish it recorded that under their direction, the government of their country supported the monstrous crimes by the United States and its NATO allies?"

Castro did not describe the project that had taken him away from his column writing, but his allies President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia said recently he was working on something to do with agriculture.

He promised another column on the U.N. General Assembly would be forthcoming.

(Editing by Peter Cooney)



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