Castro: Submarine money could have trained doctors

Fidel Castro criticised the British Royal Navy’s new attack submarine, saying Cuba could train 75,000 doctors for the £3.7bn (€5.4bn) price of three subs.

“It illustrates for us, among other things, the sophisticated weaponry being used to maintain the unsustainable order developed by the imperial system of the United States,” the 80-year-old Cuban leader wrote in his latest essays on international affairs.