從達賴到翁山蘇姬，幾乎所有人品良善的政治人物，當他逐漸受到人們普遍的抬舉與肯定之後，總是逐漸走樣，終至荒腔走板而令人徹底失望。還好這世上仍有例外，卡斯楚便是。

附帶一提。前幾天，剛好看到台灣電視有個節目好像叫做什麼寰宇全視界，主持人叫岑永康，找來一些學者專家座談有關美國和古巴建交的事。我就姑且聽聽台灣專家們會講些什麼，結果很驚訝，主持人及這些學者專家們竟然把現在當古巴總統的卡斯楚給誤以為是歷史上那個卡斯楚，甚至還說什麼卡斯楚原本很帥的大鬍子，是被美國CIA給下毒之後才掉光。

如果一般人分不清哪個卡斯楚倒也沒什麼，但如果一個節目或一個人竟然連此卡斯楚非彼卡斯楚也分不清，那他怎麼可能會是個專家呢？如果連這樣的基本常識也缺乏，怎麼還敢製作一個專題座談節目？這就好像我姓陳，阿扁也姓陳，如果有人以專家之姿上電視座談，誤以為我就是阿扁，講得口沫橫飛，這樣的 ""學者專家""，不會太離譜嗎？台灣社會之徹底封閉，由此可見一斑。

陳真
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古巴前領導人卡斯楚：不需要美國施捨

法新社 – 2016年3月28日

（法新社哈瓦那28日電） 古巴前領導人斐代爾．卡斯楚（Fidel Castro）表示，繼續反對與美國和解。他在報紙意見欄投書中說，古巴「不需要美國施捨」。

這位今年89歲的古巴前總統，在美國總統歐巴馬訪問共黨古巴期間一直沒有露面。歐巴馬此行是為了鞏固兩國關係正常化。

卡斯楚在對歐巴馬這項訪問的首次公開談話中，似乎不願意原諒和忘記半個多世紀以來兩國的敵對，他在「格蘭瑪報」（Granma）上宣稱，古巴「不需要這個帝國的施捨」。

卡斯楚語帶諷刺的說：「聽這位美國總統說的話，會讓任何人心臟病發作。」

他說：「任何人都不應幻想，這個高尚無私國家(指古巴)的人民，會放棄透過教育、科學和文化發展所獲得的榮耀、權利和精神財富。」（譯者：中央社簡長盛）

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Fidel Castro to Obama: Cuba doesn't need gifts from the ""empire""

Published March 28, 2016EFE

Fidel Castro broke his silence Monday about last week's visit here by U.S. President Barack Obama, with an article saying that Cuba doesn't need gifts from the ""empire.""

""We don't need the empire to give us any gifts. Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, because it is our commitment to the peace and brotherhood of all human beings,"" President Raul Castro's older sibling said in an article entitled ""Brother Obama,"" published Monday in the island's official media.

This latest ""Reflection from Fidel"" is the retired leader's initial reaction to the first visit of a sitting president of the United States to Cuba since 1928, in which he analyzes Obama's speech last Tuesday at Havana's Gran Teatro, which was aired live on state radio and television.

""No one should pretend that the people of this noble and selfless country will renounce its glory and its rights, or the spiritual wealth it has earned with the development of education, science and culture,"" Fidel Castro said.

In his speech, Obama spoke about the values of democracy and political pluralism, urged reconciliation between the two countries and made numerous mentions of the Cuban exile community in the U.S., while recalling the cultural and historic ties between his country and Cuba, despite more than 50 years of antagonism.

The 89-year-old Fidel Castro, who ruled Cuba from 1959 until he stepped down due to illness in 2006, replied that in Obama's speech on the island, the visiting president used ""the most syrupy words to say: 'It's high time to forget the past.'""

Weren't those words enough to make everyone ""risk a heart attack?"" Castro wrote, then went on to detail moments in history Obama seemed to have forgotten. ""After a merciless embargo that has lasted almost 60 years? And all those who died in mercenary attacks on Cuban ships and ports, and in an airliner full of passengers blown up in midair, mercenary invasions, multiple acts of force and violence?""

Castro recalled the Invasion of the Bay of Pigs, when in 1961 a mercenary force with heavy firepower, armored infantry and air support, ""trained in the United States and accompanied by U.S. warships and aircraft carriers, made a surprise attack on our country.

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Fidel Castro lectures Obama after Cuba trip

By NICK G 03/28/16

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/fidel-castro-obama-221279


""Native populations do not exist at all in the minds of Obama,"" Castro wrote. ""Nor does he say that racial discrimination was swept away by the Revolution; that retirement and salary of all Cubans were enacted by this before Mr. Barack Obama was 10 years old.""

Referring to the 1961 failed invasion of the Bay of Pigs, Castro wrote of the U.S.' ""mercenary force with cannons and armored infantry, equipped with aircraft ... trained and accompanied by warships and aircraft carriers in the U.S. raiding our country. Nothing can justify this premeditated attack that cost our country hundreds of killed and wounded.""

Castro referred also to Obama's invocation of both countries' role in the end of apartheid in South Africa, remarking upon his country's 1975 intervention in Angola backing the leftist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola against other U.S.-backed revolutionary forces. Ridding apartheid South Africa of nuclear weapons ""was not the goal of our solidarity,"" he wrote, ""but [rather] to help the people of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau and other fascist colonial rule of Portugal.""

In referring to the origins of South Africa's nuclear weapons, Castro mentioned the ""help that racist South Africa had received from [Ronald] Reagan and Israel."" ""I do not know what Obama has to say on this story now,"" Castro wrote.

""My modest suggestion is to reflect and do not try now to develop theories about Cuban politics.""

Cuba ""has no need of gifts"" from the United States, Castro concluded. ""Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, because it is our commitment to peace and brotherhood of all human beings living on this planet."",",","陳真