Fidel links Posada Carriles to botched hijacking

Fidel Castro has used the freeing of Luis Posada Carriles as the reason behind an attempted airline hijacking last week. Fidel blamed “the impunity and material benefits that…have been the reward for any violent action against Cuba” such as the freeing on bail of Posada Carriles as the impetus for the failed hijacking in Havana.

In the article published today in Granma, Fidel goes on to blame a “system (that) had been designed for exploitation and plundering” as to why underdeveloped countries are so impoverished. Fidel’s diatribe also took a jab at U.S. President George W. Bush by calling him an “apocalyptic head of empire (who) is not satisfied with the death, the torture and the uprooting of millions of people to seize their natural resources and the product of their labors.

Image- Canada.com

Links- Bloomberg, The Latin Americanist, Monsters & Critics, Granma