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Cuban President Fidel Castro has congratulated Spanish Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on his election victory, and praised his pledge to pull Spanish soldiers out of Iraq. In a letter published Tuesday in Cuba's Communist Party daily, Granma, Mr. Castro says more than 1,000 young men from small, impoverished Latin American countries have been sent to Iraq as what he called "cannon fodder" under the command of Spain. Mr. Castro said the people of Latin America have the right to expect their immediate return.
Troops from Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Honduras have participated in the Spanish-led peacekeeping force in Iraq. Nicaragua pulled its troops out in February, and says it cannot afford to replace them.