HAVANA, Aug. 13 (UPI) — Communist leader and former President of Cuba Fidel Castro wrote in a birthday address Thursday that the United States owes his country millions of dollars.
In the “Reality and dreams” address, Castro, 88, wrote that the United States “became the country with the greatest wealth and the best weaponry on Earth, in a world torn apart, full of death, the wounded and hungry” after dropping atomic bombs that “pulverized” the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which effectively ended the Second World War.
“Almost all of the gold in the world landed in the vaults of the United States,” Castro wrote. The communist leader accuses the United States of failing to comply with financial agreements set during a United Nations’ conference during World War II, a year before the U.N. charter was formally established in 1945.
“The United States unilaterally declared that it would not fulfill its duty to back the Troy ounce with the value in gold of its paper money,” Castro wrote about a decision made in the conference by former U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt that was later reversed by former President Richard Nixon. “Cuba is owed compensation equivalent to damages, which have reached many millions of dollars.”
Castro’s message comes as the United States is set to host a flag-raising ceremony in its reestablished embassy in Havana on Friday. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez will attend the event.
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