Fidel Castro rips Obama on 90th birthday

Mr. Castro, who has not appeared in public since a Communist Party Congress in April, was not expected to turn up to any of the celebrations, according to Reuters.

“I want to express my deepest gratitude for the show of respect, greetings, and praise that I’ve received in recent days, which gave me strength to reciprocate with ideas that I will send to party militants and relevant organizations”, he wrote.

(AP Photo/Desmond Boylan). Posters with the portrait of Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro, Cuban President Raul Castro, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hang in a butcher shop in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, A.

Cuba’s revolutionary leader and former President Fidel Castro celebrated his 90th birthday on Saturday, receiving good wishes from his people and the world.

Castro went on to lambast Barack Obama, over his speech in May when he visited Hiroshima – the site of the world’s first atomic bombing at the end of World War Two.

Mr Castro reminisced about his youth and his father who died before the revolution.

“Mankind is faced today with the greatest danger in its history”, he wrote. “We must preserve peace around the world and must not let any world power believe it has the right to kill millions of human beings”, Castro added.

The event coincided with Havana’s yearly carnival, which was set on the same day to honor Fidel Castro, who ruled the country for almost 50 years, only to retire and hand leadership over to his younger brother Raul.

Castro wrote that Obama’s address to the Japanese people was “lacking stature”.

Referring to the scores of U.S. assassination plots against him – Cuban intelligence services numbered them at more than 600 – he said: “I nearly laughed at the Machiavellian plans of USA presidents”.

Under Raul Castro’s presidency, diplomatic ties with United States have been restored.

As Fidel Castro turns 90 today, many historians will likely remember him for his dictatorial rule of Cuba since seizing power in the late 1950s from the US -backed Fulgencio Batista regime.

The younger Castro also introduced market-style reforms to the state-dominated economy and increased personal freedoms.

Mr Castro has lent these policies only lukewarm support in public.

Indeed, regardless of the present, many Cubans continue to revere Fidel for having freed Cuba from US domination and introduced universal, free healthcare and education.