Fidel Castro demands America pay 'numerous millions of dollars' for decades of embargo

Fidel Castro
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It may be Fidel Castro's 89th birthday, but it looks as if old age hasn't settled him down. Writing for his local media on Thursday — the day before Secretary of State John Kerry will raise the flag at the U.S. embassy in Havana — Castro got a little feisty concerning the embargoes that the U.S. slapped on communist Cuba back in 1962, AFP reports.

"Cuba is owed compensation," Castro wrote, listing the damages as "numerous millions of dollars."

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