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"The US spends more than all the other countries together on defense," he said disapprovingly, leafing through papers to check his facts. His seclusion suddenly ended Saturday, when first a blogger and then the government said that Castro appeared Wednesday at the National Center of Scientific Investigations. Castro writes opinion columns, or "Reflections," for Cuba's state-run media that in recent weeks have focused on his war predictions. "The empire is at the point of committing a terrible error that nobody can stop. It advances inexorably toward a sinister fate," he wrote on July 5. The "empire" is how Castro usually refers to the US, since the time he took power in Cuba in a 1959 revolution. In a column published Sunday night, Castro did not specifically mention his nuclear fears, but he said the "principal purpose" of his writings has been to "warn international public opinion of what was occurring." He said he reached his dire conclusion based in part on "observing what happened, as the political leader that I was during many years, confronting the empire, its blockades and its unspeakable crimes." Reuters |
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