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Castro accuses Obama of 'gibberish' UN address
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September 27, 2011, Tuesday
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FORMER Cuban leader Fidel Castro yesterday accused US President -Barack Obama of speaking "gibberish" in his recent address to the United Nations and called NATO's actions in Libya a "monstrous crime" in his first opinion column since early July.
Castro, 85, has been mostly out of sight for the past few months, which, combined with the absence of his usual steady flow of articles, had prompted rumors his health was worsening.
He wrote he was involved in work that occupied all his time and therefore had not been writing what he calls his "reflections."
But he said he wanted to comment on the UN General Assembly in New York and Obama's speech last week in particular.
Castro was his vintage self, blasting Obama and the US, 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 failing health forced him to cede power to younger brother Raul in 2008, quoted extensively from Obama's General Assembly speech, inserting paragraphs of his opinions of the US leader's words.
"In spite of the shameful monopoly of the mass information media and the fascist methods of the US 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 UN," he wrote.
Castro called into question many points in Obama's speech, accusing him of misrepresenting the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, US policy on Israel and Palestine and the uprisings in several Arab nations.
"Who understands this gibberish of the President of the United States in front of the General Assembly?" he asked.
Castro, 85, has been mostly out of sight for the past few months, which, combined with the absence of his usual steady flow of articles, had prompted rumors his health was worsening.
He wrote he was involved in work that occupied all his time and therefore had not been writing what he calls his "reflections."
But he said he wanted to comment on the UN General Assembly in New York and Obama's speech last week in particular.
Castro was his vintage self, blasting Obama and the US, 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 failing health forced him to cede power to younger brother Raul in 2008, quoted extensively from Obama's General Assembly speech, inserting paragraphs of his opinions of the US leader's words.
"In spite of the shameful monopoly of the mass information media and the fascist methods of the US 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 UN," he wrote.
Castro called into question many points in Obama's speech, accusing him of misrepresenting the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, US policy on Israel and Palestine and the uprisings in several Arab nations.
"Who understands this gibberish of the President of the United States in front of the General Assembly?" he asked.
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