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Fidel Castro: We Have to Persuade Obama to Avoid a Nuclear War.

CUBA, August 30, 2010.-  “I don’t want to be absent these days. The world is going through its most interesting and, at the same time, dangerous moment and I’m very much committed to what might happen. I still have things to do,” the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, said in an interview published on Monday in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada.

During the interview in Havana, Fidel told Carmen Lira Saade, the director of the newspaper, that he is absorbed with building an anti-nuclear war movement.

The Cuban leader said he is trying to create an international force of persuasion to prevent the threat of war from being fulfilled, in reference to an American and Israeli attack against Iran.

Regarding his recent warnings about the threat of a nuclear war, Fidel pointed out that he began to clearly see the problems of the growing world tyranny and the imminence of a nuclear attack.

“We must mobilize the world to persuade US President Barack Obama to avoid a nuclear war. He is the only one who can or cannot push the button,” he stated.

“Do you know what kind of nuclear power a few countries have right now compared to the era of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?” the Cuban leader asked.

“Four hundred and seventy thousand times higher than the explosive power of either of the two bombs that the United States dropped on those two Japanese cities,” he said emphatically.

“That is the power of each one of the more than 20,000 nuclear weapons estimated to exist in the world today, Fidel Castro said.

Much less power than that —only 100 of those bombs— would produce a nuclear winter that would throw the world into complete darkness, the Cuban leader said, noting that September 9 was the deadline set by the United Nations Security Council for inspecting Iran’s ships.

“Do you think the Iranians are going to retreat? Can you imagine them doing that? These are courageous, religious men who see death almost as a reward. The Iranians are not going to yield, that is for sure. Are the Americans going to yield? And what will happen if neither of them gives up?” he asked.

“One minute after such an explosion, more than half of all human beings will have died; the dust and smoke from the burning continents would block the sunlight, and absolute darkness would reign again over the world,” Fidel Castro stated, paraphrasing Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.

“A winter of orange-colored rain and icy hurricanes would invert the movement of the oceans and turn back the course of rivers; fish would die from thirst in the burning waters.... The era of rock and of transplanted hearts would be on its way back to global infancy,” he said. (Cubaminrex-Cuban News Agency)

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