Wearing white tennis shoes and his trademark olive-green military garb, Castro strode off at exactly 8 a.m. (8 a.m. EDT) at the head of a sea of demonstrators marching past Washington's diplomatic mission on Havana's sea-front Malecon boulevard.
The march was billed by the ruling Communist Party as a protest against all U.S. ``aggressions and crimes'' since Castro's 1959 revolution -- ranging from the long-running economic embargo to this year's jailing of five Cuban agents, accused of spy-related charges.
``Down with the genocidal blockade! ... End the terrorism against Cuba! ... Free the heroes who defend their people from death!'' chanted the marchers, waving flags and wearing T-shirts with pictures of the five agents jailed in Miami.
The state-organized protest was the centerpiece of national celebrations of the 48th anniversary of Castro's July 26, 1953, attack on the Moncada Barracks, a botched operation that nevertheless launched his armed uprising against former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
The 74-year-old Castro, whose June 23 fainting at a public rally fueled rumors over his health and speculation about who would succeed him, looked stern-faced but healthy.
Castro marched in the sun beside members of a visiting Iranian delegation and other senior Cuban communist leaders.
Liberal Republicans: What do you think about: "Fidel Castro Leading Cuba's Biggest Anti-American March"?
They want you to send them information so they can join that march.
Reply:Cuba has no value.
Reply:Well as a Capitalist/Libertarian..I really don't think much about it at all, other than I laugh at the fact the STATE has to organize and lead these so called protests.
What I DO think about is how GREAT Cuba will once again be after the Beard and his cronies become room Temp, and the silly, ineffective sanctions end.
Fidel secretly Thanks God for the USA every damned day, for the US is the PRIME reason Fidel is still there. These silly and misguided sanctions have given him all the ammo he needs to keep a people focused on an alien causation of their problems, and ignorant to the internal oppression that has made what was once the wealthiest country in the Caribbean now one of the poorest.
Cuba and her people have a greatness Fidel has squandered for far to long, and sadly US Politicians have parlayed the Cuban situation into Votes at home and have no intention of upsetting this generational vote producing apple cart by lifting sanctions and showing the Cuban people exactly what they have been missing.
Wealth and prosperity for Cuba are just moments away with the Beards death, and with sensible, open market, non-interference politics from the US. Viva La Capitalism!
Reply:Bush is too busy not finding bin Laden to care about Castro or his human rights violations.
Reply:If I were Fidel, I would be looking towards Venezuela, not the US for the next invasion of Cuba. Chavez has a real preoccupation towards Cuba, especially since old Fidal almost checked out a couple of months ago. Chavez knows that Raul isn't strong enough to hold it together, so he figured it would be easy pickins once Fidel crapped out.
The old buzzard fooled everyone, even me and Chavez! I just want to open a casino there when Fidel is pushing the grass, up ! Chavez, on the other hand, sees some serious competition with Iran romancing Fidel. He doesn't like it one bit, after all, the N. American continent is his turf, he doesn't go around the middle east raising hell, why does Ahmadinejad have to come here and spoil Chavez's agenda !
Reply:It's "much ado about nothing", in my opinion. Just another in an endless array of marches since Fidel came to power. Seen one, you've seen them all.
Reply:He did well,it was a great show.
Reply:Ya lost me at ''liberal republicans".
Reply:Hopefully he will drop dead in the Cuban heat.
Reply:The only thing Cuban worth a crap is a cigar.
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Reply:Even though I'm a conservative, Fidel kicks as much *** as Hugo Chavez and Chuck Norris.
Reply:Thanks the American Blockade, Cuba is so poor and it is used for Prisions like Guantanamo, or as an international red whore house... where sex workers are called Jineteras, and Campesinos are called Guajiros,... In other words, Cuba is enslaved by the Mexican-American New World Order Empire.
Reply:After the end of the Cold war, Cuba became a Banana Republic and Ex-CIA Fidel Castro Ruz became a Banana Puppet . The Blockade is needed to exploit Cubans.
Reply:Just shows who his friends are...Was Pelosi invited???
Castro has lead many Anti-American rallies..No one pays him any attention, except those that are our enemies ( Iran)
Reply:Don't fool ourselves with all the past interference concerning dop and torture camps, school of Americas - we are in big trouble. Even England, Wales and Italy wants the torture camps stopped as rising anti-Am is rising all over thks to u-no-who.
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