Castro Warns U.S. to Be ‘Calmer, More Sensible’
President Fidel Castro said that the country would defend itself “to the last drop of blood,” declaring Cuba unafraid of U.S. measures to change the island’s 4-decade-old socialist system.
Speaking during the island’s annual May Day celebration, Castro warned U.S. officials to be “calmer, more sensible, wiser and more intelligent” before the expected release of a report by the U.S. government’s Commission for a Free Cuba.
The report is to recommend measures to hasten a democratic transition in Cuba and to provide assistance afterward.
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