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Castro warns of threats to mankind

Fidel Castro

HAVANA: Cuban leader Fidel Castro has warned that political underdevelopment as well as limitless and irrational technological creations in the world are putting mankind’s survival at risk.

In a letter responding to a National Bureau Communist Youth Union’s (UJC) support declaration, Mr. Castro said: “Extermination wars, climate changes, hunger, thirst and inequality surround us everywhere.” He added that mankind is threatened as never before “by the combination of society’s political underdevelopment and the technological creations, apparently limitless and beyond all rationality in their self-destruction capability.”

The 80-year-old leader, who is recovering from an intestinal operation that he underwent last July, lauded the UJC’s messages that included “beautifully expressed” ideas “sprouted from the deepest line of history”. The “world tyranny” that the capitalist system creates will not be allowed in the future, he added, while expressing his confidence in the Cuban youth.

He said he is convinced that they will fight for the country’s future. — Xinhua

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