Just days after President Obama's historic trip to Cuba, Fidel Castro ripped the warming of relations between his nation and the US, angrily stating that "we don't need the empire to give us any presents."
Fidel Castro blasts Obama’s Cuba trip in harsh letter
STEPANAKERT, MARCH 29, ARTSAKHPRESS: In a 1,500-word bristling letter titled "Brother Obama," published Monday in Cuban state media, Castro, who did not meet with Obama during the visit, recounted decades of US aggression against his country and told Obama to stay out of Cuba's affairs, NY Daily News reported.
"My modest suggestion is that he reflects and doesn't try to develop theories about Cuban politics," the 89-year-old Castro wrote. "No one should pretend that the people of this noble and selfless country will renounce its glory and its rights."
"We are capable of producing the food and material wealth that we need with work and intelligence of our people," Castro added.
Quoting Obama's declaration during his visit last week that "it is time, now, for us to leave the past behind," Castro added that, "I imagine that any one of us ran the risk of having a heart attack on hearing these words from the President of the United States."
