Castro Cheers Obama!
Author: Michael Kraft
Cuba’s Fidel Castro is the latest world leader to opine on the controversial award of the Nobel peace prize to President Barack Obama.
But the endorsement of the veteran communist revolutionary may be the last thing Mr Obama wanted, as his words will only strengthen conservative complaints that the prize was an anti-American gesture.
The former dictator, who handed power to his brother Raul last year after falling seriously ill, made clear that he believed the award was primarily a repudiation of Mr Obama’s predecessors.
“Many believe that he still has not earned the right to receive such a distinction,” he wrote in a column published in state media. “But we would like to see, more than a prize for the US president, a criticism of the genocidal policies that have been followed by more than a few presidents of that country.”
Mr Castro, 83, who has spent half a century railing at international bodies, said he had often disagreed with the choice of Norway’s Nobel judges.
But this time, he noted modestly, “I must admit that in this case, in my opinion, it was a positive step”.
In his regular “Reflections of Comrade Fidel” outpourings, Mr Castro has praised some of the young American president’s policies in recent months, while criticising him for not lifting the US trade embargo on the Caribbean island.
By the time Mr Castro delivered his opinion on Saturday, plaudits and criticisms over the award had been flowing in for more than 24 hours. But Bill Clinton, the last Democratic president before Mr Obama, remained strangely silent at this stage.
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Castro Cheers Obama!
Cuba’s Fidel Castro is the latest world leader to opine on the controversial award of the Nobel peace prize to President Barack Obama.
But the endorsement of the veteran communist revolutionary may be the last thing Mr Obama wanted, as his words will only strengthen conservative complaints that the prize was an anti-American gesture.
The former [...]
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