Castro exposes Bush�s grammatical blunders
Monday, February 16, 2004
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CUBAN leader, Fidel Castro, resorted to humour on Saturday to defend himself from U.S. hostility, ridiculing President George W. Bush for his gaffes.
�Bush could not debate with a Cuban ninth-grader, who knows more than he does,� Castro said in a speech closing an international conference of economists hosted by his communist government.
Castro had his audience of 1,400 economists in stitches when he read out some of Bush�s more unfortunate statements.
Among other gaffes, Castro quoted Bush as saying: �I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy�; �I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family�; �More and more of our imports come from overseas�; and �The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.�
Looking cheerful and dressed in a dark grey business suit with a salmon-coloured tie instead of his trademark uniform, Castro laid to rest recent rumours that he may have died by delivering a four-hour 20-minute speech in which he railed against White House efforts to get rid of him.
Bush last Monday toughened enforcement of a ban on travel to Cuba by Americans, while a White House commission drew up plans to speed a post-Castro transition on the Caribbean island nation.
Havana said that Bush is trying to woo Florida�s Cuban-Americans to win their votes in the November election.
Top Bush administration officials last month accused Castro of trying to destabilise Latin America by stirring up anti-American sentiment in the region in alliance with Venezuelan populist President, Hugo Chavez.
The bearded Cuban leader, aged 77 and in power since a 1959 revolution, charged two weeks ago that Bush was plotting to have him assassinated and planning to invade Cuba.
In another development, China has executed one of its worst serial killers, a man who murdered 67 people and raped two dozen women in a four-year crime spree.
Yang Xinhai, 38, was put to death less than two weeks after a court in the central province of Henan handed down his sentence, state television said.
Yang had not appealed against the sentence, the report said.
The school dropout used tools such as an iron hammer or a meat cleaver to murder entire families during his rampage across four provinces.
Yang previously served two stints in labour camps for other crimes, and turned to murder after his release in 1999.
China, which has viewed itself as largely free of violent crimes that grab headlines in the West, has seen several serial killings in recent months.
In December, a migrant worker was sentenced to death for killing 17 teenage boys in his home and a garbage man also received the death sentence for killing 19 competitors.
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