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Fidel Castro Praises the
Caribbean
Cuban President Fidel Castro
said he is leaving Barbados with
more affection and love for the
Caribbean islands and its
excellent leaders.
"This was an unforgettable day,"
stated the Cuban head of State
after paying tribute to the
victims of the terrorist attack
on a Cuban plane off Barbadian
coasts on October 6, 1976, that
killed 73 people.
Fidel Castro laid a wreath at
the monument along with Carlos
Cremata, son of a DC-8 crew who
died in that criminal action
supported by the United States
and where one of whose
masterminds, Luis Posada
Carriles, remains without
answering to the cause of
justice.
This was Fidel Castro"s third
visit to this Eastern Caribbean
nation, after those carried out
in 1994 and 1998, when unveiling
the monument erected to the
Barbados Crime victims.
Most of Caribbean leaders
thanked Cuba for the Operation
Miracle and the over 10,500
people with eye afflictions who
have received ophthalmologic
surgery free in the island.
The 3rd Cuba-CARICOM Summit will
be held in Cuba in 2008. The
first meeting took place in
Havana in 2002.
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