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The Castros were the recipients of relentless US propaganda and assassination attempts, but they are were really just Cuban nationalists, and greatly served the preponderance of the Cuban people by kicking the mafia out of Cuba, along with its sponsor, the US stooge, General Batista.
The Castros were the recipients of relentless US propaganda and assassination attempts, but they are were really just Cuban nationalists, and greatly served the preponderance of the Cuban people by kicking the mafia out of Cuba, along with its sponsor, the US stooge, General Batista.
HAVANA (Reuters) - Fidel Castro praised his brother, Cuban President Raul Castro, on Thursday for shaking hands with U.S. President Barack Obama at a memorial for Nelson Mandela, saying he demonstrated courtesy and dignity with the gesture.
The elder Castro, in his first comment on the death of Mandela, touched on the handshake that made headlines around the world, at the end of a long column published in the Cuban media that praised Mandela and reviewed Cuba's role in ending apartheid.
The White House played down the handshake, saying it was unplanned and went no further than pleasantries.
Fidel Castro was a leading voice against apartheid when some other world leaders were reluctant to speak out.
Mandela was deeply appreciative of Cuban support in the fight against apartheid - a conflict that included Cuban troops who fought and died in southern Angola.
Castro, in his Thursday column, complained that the roots and crimes of apartheid had been given short shrift in coverage of Mandela's death, as were his beliefs.
"It's a very real fact that Mandela was a complete man, profound revolutionary and radically socialist, who with great stoicism withstood 27 years of solitary confinement," Castro said.
"I have never ceased to admire his honesty, modesty and enormous merit."
Fidel Castro made no public comment on Mandela's death at the time and was too old to attend last week's ceremony in South Africa.
Stachys Ross says "What a way of life...live a good life so that people wouldn't have to lie at your funeral service."
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