Castro Hails Nobel to Barack Obama

HAVANA: Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro called US President Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize a “positive measure”.

In an article, Castro said the Nobel committee decision was designed to criticise “the politics of genocide” pursued by Obama’s predecessors.

“I don’t always agree with decisions by this institution,” Castro wrote. “But this time, I recognise that it was a positive step.”

He added that many around the world thought the prize had been premature. “But we want to see in this decision more than just an award to a US president,” Castro continued. “We see in it criticism of the politics of genocide pursued by a number of past US presidents.”