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Humanity Faces the Threat of War, Fidel Castro Warns
The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, has again warned of the dangers of a nuclear war in either Iran or North Korea spurred by the U.S. and the threats posed for humanity.
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The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, has again warned of the dangers of a nuclear war in either Iran or North Korea spurred by the U.S. and the threats posed for humanity.
At a meeting with Cuban ambassadors in the Foreign Ministry, Fidel Castro commented that Iran is standing up to pressures that are an exact copy of what Mohamed Mossadegh suffered.
He added that the former Iranian prime minister was toppled by a coup encouraged by Washington and its Western allies after Mossadegh began nationalizing his country natural resources in the 1950s.
The former Cuban president, who has made five public appearances in the past nine days, reiterated his criticism of Western powers for the dangerous amount of nuclear warheads they have as strategic and non-strategic weapons.
He listed the figures for these weapons held by the United States, Britain, and France, all three of them allies, and those held by Russia and China.
Washington speaks of a world free of nuclear weapons, but with its technological development it replaces them with conventional weapons with equally destructive power, he said.
As an example, he noted that a weapon with tungsten bars, a material which is much stronger than steel, has an impact one hundred times higher than a 50-caliber machine gun.
Fidel Castro talked about the more than 20,000 nuclear weapons under the control of Washington, which has been waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001 and 2003, respectively.
It is now ridiculous to think about a "nuclear briefcase with a button" which caused so much panic the so-called Cold War, he added.
"All of the responses are programmed. It a matter a seconds", he said, noting that Israel is the world sixth nuclear power even though various news reports exclude that fact.
In his opinion, Latin America does not represent a strategic region for the United States today in terms of a military conflict.
Along with the tragedy of a potential nuclear war, Fidel Castro also talked about the danger to humanity posed by climate change and its disastrous consequences.
The high cost of food production and most developed nations concepts of consumption and waste, to the detriment of most of the rest of the world, were other issues Fidel discussed with the ambassadors.
The key issue is to have food for the nine billion inhabitants the world will have in the coming years, he stressed.
Can the empire [the United States] sustain itself if the market disappears, and would the dollar have any value if the world market ceased to exist? Fidel said he left this question to the specialists of the World Economy Research Center.
The leader of the Cuban Revolution ceded his executive powers as president and commander in chief of the armed forces after falling seriously ill in 2006, but keeps his political post as secretary general of the Cuban Communist Party.
At a meeting with Cuban ambassadors in the Foreign Ministry, Fidel Castro commented that Iran is standing up to pressures that are an exact copy of what Mohamed Mossadegh suffered.
He added that the former Iranian prime minister was toppled by a coup encouraged by Washington and its Western allies after Mossadegh began nationalizing his country natural resources in the 1950s.
The former Cuban president, who has made five public appearances in the past nine days, reiterated his criticism of Western powers for the dangerous amount of nuclear warheads they have as strategic and non-strategic weapons.
He listed the figures for these weapons held by the United States, Britain, and France, all three of them allies, and those held by Russia and China.
Washington speaks of a world free of nuclear weapons, but with its technological development it replaces them with conventional weapons with equally destructive power, he said.
As an example, he noted that a weapon with tungsten bars, a material which is much stronger than steel, has an impact one hundred times higher than a 50-caliber machine gun.
Fidel Castro talked about the more than 20,000 nuclear weapons under the control of Washington, which has been waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001 and 2003, respectively.
It is now ridiculous to think about a "nuclear briefcase with a button" which caused so much panic the so-called Cold War, he added.
"All of the responses are programmed. It a matter a seconds", he said, noting that Israel is the world sixth nuclear power even though various news reports exclude that fact.
In his opinion, Latin America does not represent a strategic region for the United States today in terms of a military conflict.
Along with the tragedy of a potential nuclear war, Fidel Castro also talked about the danger to humanity posed by climate change and its disastrous consequences.
The high cost of food production and most developed nations concepts of consumption and waste, to the detriment of most of the rest of the world, were other issues Fidel discussed with the ambassadors.
The key issue is to have food for the nine billion inhabitants the world will have in the coming years, he stressed.
Can the empire [the United States] sustain itself if the market disappears, and would the dollar have any value if the world market ceased to exist? Fidel said he left this question to the specialists of the World Economy Research Center.
The leader of the Cuban Revolution ceded his executive powers as president and commander in chief of the armed forces after falling seriously ill in 2006, but keeps his political post as secretary general of the Cuban Communist Party.