Fidel Castro Slams President Obama Following Last Week's Historic Cuba Visit Marc Frank - Reuters
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Retired leader Fidel Castro accused U.S. President Barack Obama of sweet-talking the Cuban people during his recent visit to the island and ignoring the accomplishments of Communist rule, in an opinion piece carried by all state-run media this week.

Obama’s visit was aimed at consolidating a detente between the once intractable Cold War enemies and the U.S. president said in a speech to the Cuban people that it was time for both nations to put the past behind them and face the future “as friends and as neighbors and as family, together.”

“One assumes that every one of us ran the risk of a heart attack listening to these words,” Castro said in his column, dismissing Obama’s comments as “honey-coated” and reminding Cubans of the many U.S. efforts to overthrow and weaken the Communist government.

Castro, 89, laced his opinion piece with nationalist sentiment and, bristling at Obama’s offer to help Cuba, said the country was able to produce the food and material riches it needs with the efforts of its people.

“We don’t need the empire to give us anything,” he wrote.

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