Fidel Castro on Barack Obama during the election: “Obama’s speech (on maintaining the embargo) may be formulated as follows: hunger for the nation, remittances as charitable handouts and visits to Cuba as propaganda for consumerism and the unsustainable way of life behind it.“ 

It should be noted he later praised Mr. Obama over Republican adversary John McCain as “the most advanced candidate, but were I to defend him, I would be doing his adversaries an enormous favor“.

- Daniel P. Erikson, Senior Associate at the Inter-American Dialogue and author of ‘ The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution‘