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Report: Castro Backs Israel's Right to Exist

(Sept. 23) -- Fidel Castro has distanced himself from the anti-Israeli rhetoric made by some of his leftist Latin American proteges and declared that the Jewish state definitely has the right to exist. "Yes it does, without a doubt," Castro, 84, told U.S. journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine, according to...

Castro Says 'Cuban Model' Not Working Anymore

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HAVANA (Sept. 9) -- Cuba's communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source: Fidel Castro. The revolutionary leader told a visiting American journalist and a U.S.-Cuba policy expert that the island's state-dominated system is in need of change, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who...

Castro Blasts Ahmadinejad as Anti-Semitic

(Sept. 8) -- Iran's firebrand president is getting some surprise criticism from a fellow anti-American agitator -- Fidel Castro. The Cuban leader blasted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and making anti-Semitic comments, according to a blog by a reporter for The Atlantic magazine. Writer Jeffrey Goldberg...