Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Fidel Castro returns to the fray

A little over a year the magazine Paris Match published an extensive photo report of Fidel Castro made his residence in Havana, Castro called the steel. The French publication commented then that "someone whom the Western press was willing to bury recently," former Cuban leader, who was then 83, was "in good shape." Since that day, Castro has written dozens of articles in the official press has published books and has appeared in public in his country on several occasions.

Despite that, and for obvious reasons, his health and his comebacks are always news, more on the eve of crucial VI Congress of the Communist Party, an organization that Castro continues to chair despite having left in 2006 all government posts due to severe disease. On Tuesday, coinciding with the celebration in Havana of the XX International Book Fair, Castro reappeared on television for five hours after meeting with Cuban intellectuals and foreigners attending the meeting.

I was three months away from the spotlight, but the articles have continued to appear in the newspaper Granma. "The truth, he was lucid and in good shape," said a European diplomat who, like many Cubans, he wondered what the real role and power of Castro at the moment, when preparing a key congress, which has in April to decide the actual extent of the economic reforms by Raul Castro.

Castro reappeared on television with good countenance and lavish on the topics you are most obsessed lately, namely the catastrophe to which humanity is doomed, rising food prices and climate change, and even made reference to popular revolts occurred in Egypt and Tunisia. On Monday they wrote a "reflection" in which he expressed support for the Egyptian people for the "courageous struggle" with which he managed to "topple the main U.S.

ally in the heart of the Arab countries." Castro believes that "Mubarak oppressing and plundering their own people, was an enemy of the Palestinians and the accomplice of Israel" and said that his policy was to "exploit and plunder their own people." Also refers to the U.S. President, Barack Obama, who, in her opinion "seems to act as owner of the planet." Egypt was the second largest recipient of U.S.

arms and stands Castro, "neither the government officials and intelligence agencies of the United States saying a single word of the privileges and outright theft of billions of dollars" in that country. "Could it be that their intelligence agencies did not know a word of the colossal theft of Mubarak's government?" Asks Castro, who will meet August 85.

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