Fidel Castro hits at US aggression in letter to ‘Brother Obama’

Fidel Castro responded on Monday to US president Barack Obama’s historic trip to Cuba with a long, bristling letter recounting the history of US aggression against Cuba, writing: “We don’t need the empire to give us any presents.”

The 1,500-word letter in state media, titled ‘Brother Obama’, was Mr Castro’s first response to the US president’s three-day visit last week, in which Obama said he had come to bury the two countries’ history of Cold War hostility.

Mr Obama did not meet the 89-year-old Fidel Castro on the trip but met his 84-year-old brother Raul Castro, the current Cuban president, several times .