Bolivian President meets with Castro
By ANITA SNOW
Bolivian President Evo Morales met with Fidel Castro for nearly three hours Thursday and said the convalescing Cuban leader looked well.
"He looked very recovered to me," said Morales, who also found the time to play racquetball with Vice President and Cabinet Secretary Carlos Lage, and meet with Castro's brother Raul, Cuba's interim president, during his previously unannounced daylong trip to Havana.
"I am very satisfied," Morales told state media before boarding his flight home Thursday night. "I am very much an admirer of Fidel."
Morales predicted more meetings with the Cuban president, saying "I am sure we will continue talking. He told me, 'Come back anytime to continue chatting, and debate important themes for humanity in any part of the world.'"
Castro on Thursday issued a new essay that lambasted President Bush, accusing him of trying to deceive Pope Benedict XVI into believing the U.S. has done nothing wrong in Iraq.
"Bush is trying now to fool Pope Benedict XVI" Castro wrote. He predicted that during his visit to the Vatican this week Bush would tell the pontiff, "The Iraq war doesn't exist, it hasn't cost a cent, there's not a single drop of blood. And hundreds of thousands of innocent people have not died in a shameful exchange for petroleum and gas."
Castro also warned of another possible war against Iran, "possibly including nuclear tactical blows to impose the same shameful recipe."
Bolivian President Evo Morales met with Fidel Castro for nearly three hours Thursday and said the convalescing Cuban leader looked well.
"He looked very recovered to me," said Morales, who also found the time to play racquetball with Vice President and Cabinet Secretary Carlos Lage, and meet with Castro's brother Raul, Cuba's interim president, during his previously unannounced daylong trip to Havana.
"I am very satisfied," Morales told state media before boarding his flight home Thursday night. "I am very much an admirer of Fidel."
Morales predicted more meetings with the Cuban president, saying "I am sure we will continue talking. He told me, 'Come back anytime to continue chatting, and debate important themes for humanity in any part of the world.'"
Castro on Thursday issued a new essay that lambasted President Bush, accusing him of trying to deceive Pope Benedict XVI into believing the U.S. has done nothing wrong in Iraq.
"Bush is trying now to fool Pope Benedict XVI" Castro wrote. He predicted that during his visit to the Vatican this week Bush would tell the pontiff, "The Iraq war doesn't exist, it hasn't cost a cent, there's not a single drop of blood. And hundreds of thousands of innocent people have not died in a shameful exchange for petroleum and gas."
Castro also warned of another possible war against Iran, "possibly including nuclear tactical blows to impose the same shameful recipe."
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Thursday, June 07, 2007
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