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In his column “Reflections of Comrade Fidel” in the Communist Party newspaper Granma, the ailing Castro, 81, zeroed in on the international reaction, particularly by his US “adversary,” to his announcement Tuesday of his official departure from Cuba’s helm.
Castro was sidelined 19 months ago after major intestinal surgery, and handed power temporarily to his brother, interim president Raul Castro, 76.
US President George W Bush “said my message was the beginning of the road to freedom in Cuba, in other words, to annexion” by the United States, Castro wrote.
The United States occupied Cuba in the early 20th century and refuses to abandon its controversial base at Guantanamo, on Cuba’s southeastern tip. That gives Havana plenty of political currency with which to warn almost daily that a US occupation or annexation effort could come at any time.
Fidel Castro said he had been watching on television “the embarrassing situation of all the US presidential candidates” whom he said were “forced, one by one, to make their immediate demands of Cuba, so that they would not risk losing a single voter.”
“Half a century of economic embargo seemed like not much to these favourites. Change, Change, Change!” they shouted in a chorus. “Well I agree, but in the United States,” Castro added.
“The end of one era is not the same thing as the beginning of an unsustainable system,” Castro stressed.
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