Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday that President Barack Obama is trying to make positive changes in the United States, but is being fought at every turn by right-wingers who hate him because he is black, according to a report by Reuters.
"I don't have the slightest doubt that the racist right will do everything possible to wear him down, blocking his program to get him out of the game one way or another, at the least political cost,"
Castro wrote in his column in state media.
Pointing out that Obama does not want to change the U.S. political and economic systems, Castro noted:
"in spite of that, the extreme right hates him for being African-American and fights what the president does to improve the deteriorated image of that country."
Castro’s latest column came during a visit to Cuba by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. ‘Memba him?