Posted on 05/05/2005 9:00:31 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
HAVANA (AP) - Cuban President Fidel Castro criticized the Organization of American States and its new Chilean secretary-general, accusing him of using "insolent, interventionist" language to suggest change is needed in communist Cuba.
Castro used a three-hour appearance on Cuban state television late Wednesday to lambaste the United States and several other governments around the region that he said were servile toward the United States.
Jose Miguel Insulza, a former socialist interior minister in Chile, was widely considered the third and last choice of U.S. officials in the months-long struggle for leadership of the OAS.
But Castro appeared to be infuriated by Insulza's suggestions that "all of us want to promote important progress in terms of democracy" in Cuba.
"The little gentleman lost control," Castro said, and referred to the OAS as "that corrupt, putrefied, stinking institution."
The Cuban leader has made a target of the OAS since the early 1960s, when Cuba was suspended from the organization at the prompting of the United States, which was then actively trying to topple Castro.
He noted U.S. officials embraced Insulza's election Monday and added that while he did not say the Chilean had sold out, his words were those "of someone who has a price posted in the shop window ... 'Worth so much,' and I believe the price is not very high."
Castro also suggested that Chile should give up disputed northern territories so that Bolivia could have an outlet to the Pacific Ocean.
Dressed in his usual olive-green military uniform, Castro spent much of his appearance reading from news reports about the OAS and about terror suspect Luis Posada Carriles, who is apparently in the United States. There were so many documents he sometimes had to stop to hunt through them for the reference he sought.
Castro ridiculed the top State Department official for the Americas, Roger Noriega, who said Tuesday that he did not know if Posada - a former CIA employee - was in the United States, even as Posada's attorney and friends were repeatedly confirming it.
Castro called it "a division in the bosom of the family" and said the case "has unleashed an epidemic of craziness."
Cuba accuses of Posada of masterminding the bombing of a civilian Cuban jetliner that killed 73 people in 1976. Venezuela - currently an ally of Cuba - is seeking his extradition to stand trial there. Posada denies involvement in the airline bombing.
The clinical term is projective identification, where a sick mind accuses others of precisely one's own characteristic flaws, remaining oblivious to one's own defect. It is a fundamental personality trait of all liberals.
Cuba...Lost. Not even worth mentioning anymore.
He can only smoke so many cigars before he dies, which hopefully will be very soon.
Yeah, it could be theater. My first reaction was that if Castro hates him, he must be good. Then I read that he's a socialist. I guess we'll just have to hope for the best but be prepared for the worst as usual.
He is. He was.
Most European socialists hate Castro also. Anyone to the right of Stalin or Jim Il Sung is an enemy of Castro. Of course the Hollywood morons worship Fidel, a tyrant who tortures and imprisons librarians.
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