Fidel Castro Tells Obama To Give Back Guantanamo

[Leo The Cleo]

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/castro_obama_guantanamo/2009/01/30/176715.html

Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro demanded on Thursday that President Barack Obama return the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo to Cuba without conditions, and he accused the new U.S. leader of supporting "Israeli genocide" against Palestinians.

Castro, who had recently praised Obama as "honest" and "noble", lashed out at his administration for stating that Washington will not return Guantanamo if it has any military use for the United States and without concessions in return.

"Maintaining a military base in Cuba against the will of the people violates the most elemental principles of international law," Castro wrote in a column posted on the government-run website www.cubadebate.cu.

"Not respecting Cuba's will is an arrogant act and an abuse of immense power against a little country," Castro said, resorting to a charge he has leveled against the 10 previous U.S. presidents since he came to power in a 1959 revolution.

Cuba indefinitely leased Guantanamo to the United States in 1903 after the United States occupied the country during the 1898 Spanish-American War. Castro charges that the base at the south-eastern tip of Cuba was taken over illegally.

Earlier on Thursday, Washington's loudest critic in Latin America, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, also urged Obama to return the Guantanamo base, after applauding his decision to close the prison camp for terrorism suspects there.

"Now he should return Guantanamo and Guantanamo Bay to the Cubans because that is Cuban territory," Chavez, Cuba's closest ally, said in a speech in Brazil.

Fidel Castro has been seen only in a few videos and photos since undergoing intestinal surgery in July 2006 from which he never fully recovered.

But he has maintained a public profile through his writings and meetings with visiting foreign leaders, and he is believed to retain an important political role behind the scenes.

His brother Raul Castro provisionally took power after the surgery, then officially became president in February.

Obama has said he wants to move toward normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations but would not eliminate the 46-year-old U.S. trade embargo against the communist-led island without political reforms.

Until Thursday's column, the Castro brothers had praised Obama and held back direct criticism of his administration.

Fidel Castro on Thursday also attacked Obama for supporting Israel's invasion of Gaza.

"It is the way our friend Obama has fallen into sharing Israel's genocide against Palestinians," Castro wrote in his column called "Deciphering the thought of the new U.S. president."

[jwirr]

1. Why not? We can save the money for running it.

[Arkana]

2. Oh, Fidel, you crazy bastard you.

[Mika]

3. Newsmax? Here's what he actually said..

DUers, go to the source. US MSM distribute mostly lies and anti Cuba swill..

DESCIFRANDO EL PENSAMIENTO DEL NUEVO PRESIDENTE DE ESTADOS UNIDOS
http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/reflexiones/2009/esp/f290109e.html

No es demasiado difícil. Después de su toma de posesión, Barack Obama declaró que la devolución del territorio ocupado por la Base Naval de Guantánamo a su legítimo dueño debía sopesar, en primer término, si afectaba o no en lo más mínimo, la capacidad defensiva de Estados Unidos.

Añadía de inmediato, que respecto a la devolución a Cuba del territorio ocupado por la misma, debía considerar bajo qué concesiones la parte cubana accedería a esa solución, lo cual equivale a la exigencia de un cambio en su sistema político, un precio contra el cual Cuba ha luchado durante medio siglo.

Mantener una base militar en Cuba contra la voluntad de nuestro pueblo, viola los más elementales principios del derecho internacional. Es una facultad del Presidente de Estados Unidos acatar esa norma sin condición alguna. No respetarla constituye un acto de soberbia y un abuso de su inmenso poder contra un pequeño país.

Si se desea comprender mejor el carácter abusivo del poder del imperio debe tomarse en cuenta las declaraciones publicadas en el sitio oficial de Internet por el gobierno de Estados Unidos el 22 de enero de 2009, después del acceso al mando, de Barack Obama. Biden y Obama deciden apoyar resueltamente la relación entre Estados Unidos e Israel, y consideran que el incontrovertible compromiso en Oriente Medio debe ser la seguridad de Israel, el principal aliado de Estados Unidos en la región.
Estados Unidos nunca se distanciará de Israel y su presidente y vicepresidente “creen resueltamente en el derecho de Israel de proteger sus ciudadanos”, asegura la declaración de principios, que retoma en esos puntos la política seguida por el gobierno del predecesor de Obama, George W. Bush.

Es el modo de compartir el genocidio contra los palestinos en que ha caído nuestro amigo Obama. Edulcorantes similares ofrece a Rusia, China, Europa, América Latina y el resto del mundo, después que Estados Unidos convirtió a Israel en una importante potencia nuclear que absorbe cada año una parte significativa de las exportaciones de la próspera industria militar del imperio, con lo cual amenaza, con una violencia extrema, a la población de todos los países de fe musulmana.

Ejemplos parecidos abundan, no hace falta ser adivino. Léase, para más ilustración, las declaraciones del nuevo Jefe del Pentágono, experto en asuntos bélicos.


Fidel Castro Ruz
29 de enero de 2009
6 y 17 p.m.

Google translation..

THOUGHT OF THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

It is not too difficult. After his inauguration, Barack Obama stated that the return of the territory occupied by the Guantanamo Naval Base to its rightful owner should weigh in first, whether or not affected at all, the defensive capabilities of the United States.

Added immediately, with respect to returning to Cuba from the territory occupied by it, should consider the concessions under which Cuba agreed to that solution, which is equivalent to requiring a change in its political system, against which a price Cuba has struggled for half a century.

Maintain a military base in Cuba against the will of our people, violating the most elementary principles of international law. It is a prerogative of the President of the United States comply with this standard without any conditions. Respect is not an act of arrogance and an abuse of its immense power against a small country.

If you want to better understand the unfairness of the rule of power should be taken into account the statements published on the official site of the Internet by the U.S. government on January 22, 2009, after the access to the command of Barack Obama. Biden and Obama decide to strongly support the relationship between the U.S. and Israel and see the incontrovertible commitment in the Middle East must be the security of Israel, the main U.S. allies in the region.
America will never be away from Israel and its president and vice president "believes strongly in Israel's right to protect its citizens," says the statement of principles, which takes up these points in the policy pursued by the government of the predecessor Obama, George W . Bush.

Is the share of the genocide against the Palestinians has fallen into our friend Obama. Similar offers sweeteners to Russia, China, Europe, Latin America and the rest of the world after the U.S. became Israel in a major nuclear power that every year a significant portion of exports from the thriving industry of military rule, thus threatening, with an extreme violence, the population of all countries of Muslim faith.

Similar examples abound, it does not take a soothsayer. Read, for illustration, the statements by the new head of the Pentagon, an expert in matters of war.


Fidel Castro Ruz
29 January 2009
6 and 17 p.m.