RaÃºl Castro raps US policy
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HAVANA -- Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro failed to appear yesterday at the non aligned summit but his stand-in, younger brother Ra&#xFA;l Castro, delivered a fiery speech blaming the United States for a plethora of global problems.
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In a written commentary, Cuban leader Fidel Castro claimed that the U.S. and other nations are "plundering" developing countries by importing skilled high-tech workers under visa programs such as the H-1B.
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Fidel Castro wrote Tuesday that President Bush is threatening the world with nuclear war and famine  -  an attack on Washington a day before the White House was to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism
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Cuban President Fidel Castro on Sunday scoffed at Bush administration efforts to ease social problems in Latin America, boasting his poor country could run circles around the United States in health and education aid.
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Cuba's acting president, Raul Castro, departing from his brother's confrontational approach to their arch-enemy the United States, said this weekend he was open for talks with Washington.
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"But it is positive that we are talking about it. Surely, when we talk our positions will become more understandable."  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Cuba was on the verge of a 'major transition,' and chided Spain on Friday for doing business with Fidel Castro while not working more to support dissidents in the communist island nation.Rice's one-day visit here was meant to smooth over a three-year downturn in relations between Washington and the government Madrid, but the disagreement over Cuba has threatened to wash away any growing good will. At issue is Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos's decision to snub Cuban dissidents on a visit to Havana in April. Read more
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro poked fun at President George W. Bush on Sunday for proclaiming "Long Live Free Cuba," likening it to Spain's king saying the same during his colonial rule over the island.
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The United States on Wednesday rebuffed a recent offer by Cuba for talks and said Havana had become even more hard-line since Raul Castro stepped in for his ailing brother Fidel Castro.
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The Venezuelan leader lashes out at US policy towards Latin America as he and the US president continue rival tours.
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Cuba accuses the US of issuing fewer entry visas to Cubans than allowed for by a deal between the two countries.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro, seeking to rid his country of the currency of his arch-enemy, said on Monday Cuba was ending circulation of the US dollar as of Nov. 8 in response to tightened American sanctions.
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Ailing leader Fidel Castro on Monday denied U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain's claim that Cuban agents helped torture American prisoners of war in Vietnam in the 1960s, calling the assertion "a strange legend."
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US lawmakers back from a trip to Cuba said officials there had insisted Fidel Castro was not dying, and that his brother Raul Castro is not Havana's new leader.
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Iran, Venezuela and other states opposed   to U.S. policy sought to forge a common front on Friday at a   Non-Aligned summit that Cuban leader Fidel Castro was too ill   to chair.
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Oliver Stone's new documentary on Fidel Castro was screened at the weekend at the San Sebastian film festival with the US filmmaker describing it as more &quot;politically correct&quot; than his previous film on the Cuban leader.
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Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro, says he does not want to 'cling' to power
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US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Saturday promised a more open policy towards Cuba at a packed campaign rally in Miami, the heart of the anti-Castro Cuban exile community.