US
Has Too Many Nuclear Weapons, but It Lacks Ideas: Fidel Castro
Havana, May 20 (Prensa Latina) The US government has too many nuclear weapons
but it lacks ideas, and what is worse, it lacks brains, Cuban President Fidel
Castro stressed when denouncing Washington´s complicity with terrorist
Luis Posada Carriles.
The Cuban statesman spoke Thursday night on a special program on the occassion
of the 110th Anniversary of the Fall in Combat of National Hero Jose Marti,
broadcast live on national radio and television from Havana´s Karl Marx
Theater.
He accused the administration of US President George W. Bush of hiding many
secrets of his commitments to Cuba born terrorists. He described the alleged
global crusade the United State has unleashed against terrorism as a lie.
Fidel Castro pointed out that the White House should understand the repugnance
that its maneuvers to protect Posada Carriles have caused to the Cuban people,
who demand justice for the sabotage of a Cuban airliner that killed all 73
people on board, among other crimes of terror.
The Cuban president noted that the White House is looking for a third country
to send the terrorist, instead of extraditing him to Venezuela, from where
he escaped.
In denouncing that the group that today holds the US presidency has resorted
to lies, the Cuban leader accussed Bush of using terrorism to gain and retain
power. He impugned how timely the broadcast of a Bin Laden´s video was,
four days before the November elections, in which the sinister figure bragged
about the attacks of September 11, 2001.
He added that four years earlier, anti-Cuba counterrevolutionary groups had
helped him to win the White House with the fraud in Florida, insisting the
same thing happened last November.
Referring to the conditions in which US authorities arrested Posada Carriles,
Fidel Castro asked: "Would they have taken Bin Laden in a golf cart,
without handcuffs, to a center where he even has access to recreation?."
Cuba is waging, he underlined, a historic battle of ideas against weapons
and the power that fostered terrorism against the Island.
During the program, on which Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcón
also took the floor, evidence that link US authorities to Posada Carriles,
Orlando Bosch and other terrorists were presented.