Castro Defends Obama and Calls Americans Racists

August 25, 2009.

Fidel Castro´s column, under the title “Ojalá me equivoque” (“I hope I am wrong”), appears today in the front page of the Cuban state-run media daily “Granma”. Castro states that President Barack Obama is trying to make positive changes in the United States, but he is being fought at every turn by right-wingers who hate him because he is black.

In his column, Castro indicates that Obama had inherited many problems from George W. Bush, and he was trying to resolve them. But the “powerful extreme right won’t be happy with anything that diminishes their prerogatives in the slightest way.” According to Castro, Obama does not want to change the U.S. political and economic system, but “in spite of that, the extreme right hates him for being African-American and fights what the president does to improve the deteriorated image of that country.”

Castro closes his article with these words: “No albergo la menor duda de que la derecha racista hará todo lo posible por desgastarlo, obstaculizando su programa para sacarlo del juego por una u otra vía, al menor costo político posible” (“I don’t have the slightest doubt that the racist right will do everything possible to wear him down, blocking his program to get him out of the game one way or another, at the least political cost”).

His latest column comes during a visit to Cuba by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. Castro´s column is full of  attacks against the American people who disagree with Obama´s policies. These are some of the attacks that we see coming from certain left-wing groups in the United States. Also very telling is the fact that Castro uses in his column some of the information published in several U.S. newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post.

In his column, Castro misrepresents the facts surrounding the health care debate in the United States and he portrays the American people who oppose President Obama as racists, gun-owners and nazis… He also states that “Los que fraguaron el ataque del 11 de septiembre del 2001 a las Torres Gemelas fueron entrenados por Estados Unidos”, (“Those who prepared the 9-11 attack in 2001 were trained by the United States”).

Last March, Castro wrote about Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted last June after he ignored a Supreme Court order to cancel a referendum asking Hondurans if they wanted a special assembly to rewrite the Constitution. Castro praised Zelaya and mentioned that, for Zelaya, “the capitalist system is the most repugnant conception of justice that human beings can harbor.” According to Castro, Zelaya is “a man who profoundly suffers from the abuses of the empire”, referring to the U.S.

Fidel Castro´s column, insulting the American people while supporting Obama, cannot be good news for the White House.

The Americano

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