Castro Refutes Liberal Media, Obama Claims

The American liberal media was enraptured over the prospect that President Obama “was seeking a new beginning with Cuba” as quoted in The New York Times during the recent Organization of the American States meeting in Trinidad & Tobago but it comes as no surprise to the conservative Hispanic community that over the past couple of days Fidel Castro has been publishing essays critical of Obama and contradicting glowing media reports and the Obama account. The Cuban government website ironically called Cubadebate, only officially sanctioned government material is allowed on the website, regularly publishes essays by Fidel Castro, who says he uses this website to fight the terrorism of the media. On April 20 he wrote an essay about what he calls the comical issues of the Summit of the Americas and then on 21st wrote about “serious issues.” Last week headlines swept around the world that Raul Castro informed the U.S. that Cuba would be willing to discuss “everything, everything, everything” which included human rights, freedom of the press, the release of political prisoners. Additionally, in the New York Times articles describing interaction between Cuba, Sec. Hillary Clinton, and Obama there were numerous quotes that Latin American countries would no longer blame the U.S. for all their problems. Well according to Castro they missed something in the translation. Fidel Castro, who says he was kept abreast of what was happening at the Summit minute by minute, has a much different take on what happened at the Summit that is very much at odds with what was reported by the American press and the Obama administration. Reports being published by the liberal American media are only saying that Fidel Castro said Obama misunderstood what Raul was saying but the two long winded essays by the Cuban dictator contain much more criticism. Castro says the American press and the President must have had bad language interpreters because Raul Castro never promised to discuss anything that would betray the Revolution. His meaning that he would discuss anything meant that he was so confident in the revolutionary process that he could not be intimidated. Castro says the only political prisoners that were discussed were freedom fighters in U.S. and other countries that were imprisoned at the order of the United States and that Cuba suggested that perhaps Mrs. Obama should help free them. Castro says that the United States rushed the meeting and was not fair to Bolivia and other countries. He inferred that in diplomatic exchanges before the summit Obama had promised to give them more attention then he actually did at the Summit. The United States has the responsibility to repay Latin America for wasting Latin American resources and causing wars there. President Ortega of Nicaragua represented a country that was devastated by an American war and therefore deserved reparations. The United States has the responsibility to give expensive green technology to all the poor Latin American countries he added. Castro says Obama told Cuban representatives that the United States should model its foreign policy to that of Cuba which Castro claims only sends doctors to poor countries not military forces like the United States. (note:I guess Castro forgot all the Cuban soldiers he sent to Africa, Latin America, and Asia) He reiterated remarks that Nicaraguan President Ortega supposedly made to the Obama administration that they are actively fighting the drug trade and capturing large amounts of drugs that would have been sold in the U.S. (note: complicity between Castro and many of his Latin American cronies with the drug cartels is well known) Castro said Obama should be more like Martin Luther King ( note: several Cuban black dissidents are currently serving long prison terms for forming a Martin Luther King Society in Cuba) and offer to help the poor in Cuba. He asked why Obama as a Senatorial candidate promised to lift the Cuban embargo and now as President had not. Castro says the only crime committed is the crime of the embargo and that it should be lifted unconditionally immediately. Castro scoffed at the remarks Obama made about talks that would let more of the money sent by American relatives of Cubans saying that most Cubans do not have rich American relatives so the government has to spread the money around. Interestingly he also claims to quote the Chinese saying the American dollar was “junk money” inferring that because it has such a low value he did not want Cubans to have too much of it. (note: American dollars are the only real currency in the tourist sections of Cuba) Clearly the Cuban government government does not want the world to think that is has relinquished anything to United States and that it remains proudly defiant. Castro called Obama a hard worker and charismatic but said he was otherwise no different than the many other American presidents he has dealt with. So it appears all the spin about a new beginning with Cuba by the American media was just a sham. The only thing that has changed is that now we have a gullible President who probably needs to get some better translation. What has happened to American media when the only way we get the true story is from the Reflections of Comrade Fidel on a Cuban government website?