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Fidel Castro was not impressed with Obama

By Kate Sheehy
March 28, 2016 | 1:35pm

Fidel Castro, speaking out for the first time since President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba last week, blasted the US leader on Monday for trying to meddle in the communist nation’s affairs.

In a letter titled “My Brother Obama’’ and published in Granma, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, Castro scoffed, “We don’t need the empire to give us any presents.”

Castro, 89, ripped Obama for assuming Cubans can trust him when he says the US government is done trying to overthrow their country’s communist regime and that America will help move the island toward economic reform.

“My modest suggestion is that he reflects and doesn’t try to develop theories about Cuban politics” with his “honey-coated words,’’ Castro wrote.

“No one should pretend that the people of this noble and selfless country will renounce its glory and its rights,” he added. “We are capable of producing the food and material wealth that we need with the work and intelligence of our people.”

He even took a swipe at Obama’s relative youth.

“Native populations do not exist at all in the minds of Obama. Nor does he say that racial discrimination was swept away by the Revolution; that retirement and salary of all Cubans were enacted by this before Mr. Barack Obama was 10 years old,” Castro said.

Obama had said in a speech that “it is time, now, for us to leave the past behind,” but the diehard Commie retorted, “I imagine that any one of us ran the risk of having a heart attack on hearing these words from the President of the United States.”

Castro brought up the United States’ infamous 1961 failed invasion of the Bay of Pigs, writing, “Nothing can justify this premeditated attack that cost our country hundreds of killed and wounded.’’

White House spokesman Josh Earnest responded by saying, “The fact that the former president felt compelled to respond so forcefully to the president’s visit, I think, is an indication of the significant impact of President Obama’s visit to Cuba.”\

Castro ceded power to his brother Raul in 2008. Obama met with Raul last week, the first time a US president had been to Cuba since 1928.

The newspaper that published Fidel’s letter takes its name from the yacht that Fidel and dozens of other rebels used to travel from Mexico to Cuba to launch their revolution in 1956

http://nypost.com/2016/03/28/fidel-castro-was-not-impressed-with-obama/