Fidel Castro blasts Cheney's defense of counterterrorism methods, says torture always wrong
By Associated Press
8:36 PM EDT, May 27, 2009
HAVANA (AP) — Former Cuban president Fidel Castro is criticizing ex-U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney for defending American interrogation methods against terror suspects. Castro says torture should never be used to extract information.
Castro says that the U.S. itself engaged in acts of terrorism against Cuba after the 1959 revolution he led.
U.S.-backed schemes aimed at overthrowing Castro were common in his first years in power, including the 1961 invasion of the island's Bay of Pigs by an American-trained exile army.
Castro's comments appeared in an essay posted on a government Web site Wednesday evening. They were aimed at Cheney's speech last week in which he defended the counterterrorism policies of the administration of former President George W. Bush.