HAVANA — Count Fidel Castro amid those in favor of the Norwegian Nobel Committee's arguable best of U.S. Admiral Barack Obama for the Nobel Accord prize.
The above Cuban baton said Saturday that he anticipation the best was a "positive step," admitting he added it was added a abolishment of Obama's predecessors than a acceptance of annihilation accurate Obama has done.
"Many accept that he still has not becoming the appropriate to accept such a distinction," Castro wrote in a cavalcade appear in accompaniment media. "But we would like to see, added than a award-winning for the U.S. president, a criticism of the genocidal behavior that accept been followed by added than a few presidents of that country."
The Cuban advocate said he was generally at allowance with the choices of the Nobel committee, "but I charge accept that in this case, in my opinion, it was a absolute step."
Many criticized the choice, adage Obama has done little in beneath than a year in appointment and doesn't deserve such a celebrated prize, generally accustomed to bodies afterwards a lifetime of work. Republicans accept said the accolade was a absorption of the president's brilliant ability added than his effectiveness, and alike some advanced Democrats said a accord award-winning should not accept been accustomed to a wartime president.
Castro, connected a allegiant adversary of Washington, has fabricated a approved addiction of praising Obama, a abrupt turnaround from Cuba's animosity against antecedent George W. Bush, who took a adamantine band on Cuba.
Castro has acclaimed Obama's alarm to activity on altitude change and said he is a acute and aboveboard man — admitting he has castigated Obama for abrogation in abode America's 47-year barter embargo on the island.
Castro, 83, who handed over ability to his brother Raul in February 2008, has connected to absolution common essays on accepted events, which are appear in accompaniment media beneath the appellation "Reflections of Comrade Fidel."
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