Castro Blasts U.S. Plan For Cuba Suggests Clinton May Be ‘Idiot,’ Tells U.S. To Give Texas To Mexico

Cuban President Fidel Castro said Friday the United States should return to Mexico huge chunks of that country’s territories it acquired more than a century ago.

He also said President Clinton is an “idiot” if he thinks he can force Cuba to abandon its present Communist regime.

In a fiery 90-minute speech, the Cuban leader claimed that the United States wrongly appropriated more than half of Mexico’s territory, mostly through successive invasions. These include Texas, California, Arizona, and New Mexico.

“Now, they are terrorized because Mexicans cross” into what is properly their territory, Castro said.

He said that in effect, Mexicans are reconquering their own land.

Castro’s comments were contained in a speech he gave at the close of an international congress of leftist educators in Havana, the Cuban capital, including several hundred teachers from Mexico.

Excerpts were contained in a dispatches from Havana by the Mexican government news agency Notimex and other news sources, monitored in Mexico City.

Clinton “is going to win the title of idiot if he thinks he can liquidate the revolution,” Castro said, referring to a document the Agency for International Development recently drafted for Congress on transition in Cuba.

The document outlined a scenario under which the United States would put together billions of dollars in international aid once Castro ceases to be in power and to help a transition towards democracy.

“There will be no transition government in Cuba,” Castro said. He called the Clinton administration “shameless, mad and very dangerous.”

“Who ever told the U.S. it has the right to draw up a government program for another country?” Castro asked.

“If this is the case, we can recommend a transition government that eliminates the capitalist garbage that exists in the United States.”