Castro Thinks Police Action in US and European Protests Is Barbaric

Cuba’s former president Fidel Castro thinks the political response to the social protest in important US and European cities is a “barbarity,” according to what he recently wrote in a new issue of his “Reflections.” The “pitched battles” between protesters and “the well trained and fed police, with armored cars and spacesuits, throwing punches, kicks and gas against women and men, twisting hands and necks of the young and old,” show “the cowardly actions against the citizens rights and lives” in those countries, judges Castro.

“How long will these barbarities continue?” the former president asks himself in his article titled, “The wonderful world of capitalism,” published today in the official newspapers Granma and Workers.

Fidel Castro confirms that “these tragedies will continue to present themselves even more in television and the media in general and they will be like the daily bread that is denied to those that have the least…” After making a reference to the news about the possibility of a gigantic tsunami that will flood Japanese coasts and some new advances in technology that show luxury stores in countries of Western Europe, Castro launches into irony – “Honestly fellow countrymen capitalism is a wonderful thing!”

The leader of the Cuban Revolution has been out of power since 2006, when a serious illness made him appoint his brother Raul to the presidency. Raul has definitively held power in Cuba since 2008.

After four years of being absent from public life, Fidel Castro began reappearing in some events such as meetings with intellectuals or presentations of his memoir books in spring 2010. His most recent appearance was a public reunion with pope Joseph Ratzinger during the pontiff’s pastoral visit to the island last week. The menace of a nuclear war and its consequences to the whole planet has been the constant theme Fidel Castro approaches in his reappearances and articles.