{"id":1358881,"date":"2022-03-04T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T19:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1358881"},"modified":"2022-03-04T14:37:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T19:37:41","slug":"cuba-claims-fidel-castro-cared-for-chernobyl-victims-to-defend-supporting-russia-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuba-claims-fidel-castro-cared-for-chernobyl-victims-to-defend-supporting-russia-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Claims Fidel Castro Cared for Chernobyl Victims to Defend Supporting Russia in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcuba-claims-fidel-castro-cared-for-chernobyl-victims-to-defend-supporting-russia-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1358881&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><em>Granma<\/em>, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, published an article on Thursday praising Fidel Castro for allegedly spearheading an effort to help the victims of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster as evidence of its goodwill towards Ukraine \u2013 despite the Castro regime\u2019s staunch support of Russia in the current war.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is a close ally and patron of the Castro regime. Its leader, Vladimir Putin, launched a full-scale military of Ukraine last week in what he described as an effort to \u201cde-Nazify\u201d the country. Putin first invaded Ukraine in 2014 and has illegally occupied Crimea, Ukraine, since, as well as fueled a war in the eastern Donbas region between the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian separatists.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20115794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Castro-Putin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20115794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Castro-Putin.jpg\" alt=\"In this July 11, 2014 file photo, Cuba&#039;s Fidel Castro, center, visits with Russia&#039;s President Vladimir Putin, right, in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo\/Alex Castro, File)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this July 11, 2014 file photo, Cuba\u2019s Fidel Castro, center, visits with Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin, right, in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo\/Alex Castro, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Castro regime has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/news\/cuba-solucion-ucrania-seguridad-paz-20220226-0020.html\">issued<\/a> multiple statements and used its state media to promote the claim that the United States, by pursuing friendly relations with Ukraine, caused the current war.<\/p>\n<p>In Thursday\u2019s\u00a0<em>Granma<\/em> column, writer\u00a0Elson Concepci\u00f3n P\u00e9rez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granma.cu\/mundo\/2022-03-03\/chernobil-en-nuestro-recuerdo-03-03-2022-23-03-38\">recalled<\/a> an alleged operation by Fidel Castro to aid the victims of the Chernobyl disaster caused by communist mismanagement of the eponymous nuclear power plant under the Soviet Union, and compared this alleged charity to America\u2019s support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Concepci\u00f3n writes that he personally visited \u201cgroups of Ukrainian children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident\u201d who effusively embraced Cuban communism, according to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could note the admiration and gratitude for Fidel on the part of the families of those children who the Commander-in-Chief visited on various occasions, after having received the first group at the airplane stairway that brought them to our country,\u201d Concepci\u00f3n claimed. \u201cHe signed his olive green hat and gave it to a Ukrainian girl, inquired with doctors and directives all the care program for the minors, their most common pathologies, and their evolution through their stay on the island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was all done for free as an expression of love and solidarity,\u201d Concepci\u00f3n claimed, \u201cthose attributes that contrast with those who today send thousands of tons of weapons to Ukraine, a country turned into a hostage of the hegemonic policies of the U.S. and NATO, to face Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us remember those Ukrainians in moments like today, and along with them ask for an end to the war and for that country to incorporate itself into the international community without belligerent aspirations,\u201d the article concluded, \u201cand with a neutral character that should not change no matter how much the promoters of hate and confrontation \u2013 that is to say, the government of the United States and NATO \u2013 want to take it down the wrong path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other than referring to Ukraine as an American \u201chostage\u201d on multiple occasions, the article on Fidel Castro\u2019s alleged role in aiding Chernobyl victims did not weigh in on the current conflict. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the irradiated area around the power plant, has played a significant role in combat given its geographical location, placing it on the shortest path between Russia and Kyiv. The Russian military reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/24\/ukrainian-president-russian-forces-trying-to-seize-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant\/\">seized<\/a> the site with minimal struggle during the early days of the full-scale invasion last week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Under the current Ukrainian administration, the government had attempted to promote Chernobyl as a lucrative tourism site. During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2021\/04\/26\/ukraine-zelensky-promises-chernobyl-renaissance-35th-anniversary-nuclear-disaster\/\">ceremony<\/a> observing the 35th anniversary of the disaster last year, Zelensky promised to turn the exclusion zone into \u201can area of renaissance.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20115634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Chernobyl-Ferris-Wheel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20115634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Chernobyl-Ferris-Wheel.jpg\" alt=\"An abandoned Ferris wheel stands in the park in the ghost town of Pripyat, Ukraine, close to the Chernobyl nuclear plant, on April 15, 2021. Among the most worrying developments on an already shocking day, as Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday, was warfare at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, where radioactivity is still leaking from history&#039;s worst nuclear disaster 36 years ago.(AP Photo\/Efrem Lukatsky, File)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">An abandoned Ferris wheel stands in the park in the ghost town of Pripyat, Ukraine, close to the Chernobyl nuclear plant, on April 15, 2021. (AP Photo\/Efrem Lukatsky)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The article allegedly in solidarity with the Ukrainian people \u2013 who at the time of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster did not enjoy sovereignty as a state \u2013 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2022\/02\/28\/latin-americas-communist-axis-rallies-vladimir-putin\/\">written<\/a> by the same\u00a0<em>Granma<\/em> writer who last week praised Putin for his invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussian President Vladimir Putin has demonstrated firmness before the American and NATO plan to surround his country with arms and military forces,\u201d Concepci\u00f3n\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.granma.cu\/mundo\/2022-02-27\/aquellas-aguas-trajeron-tempestades-27-02-2022-23-02-49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0in a February 27 column. \u201cPutin has assured that he was led to make this decision as a last resort left to him by the West.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article notably omitted the extensive evidence that Putin\u2019s regime was supplying violent separatists in Donbas with heavy weaponry for years and that investigations concluded that these weapons were used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-28357880#:~:text=The%20JIT%2C%20which%20reported%20on,as%20fragments%20of%20shrapnel%20found.\">shoot down<\/a> a commercial airliner in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>While Cuba is a close Russian ally, Ukraine maintains an embassy in Havana \u2013 one that has allegedly been bombarded by statements in solidarity against Russian aggression in the past week, an indication the general public in Cuba does not agree with its regime\u2019s stance. In an apparent attempt to silence these gestures, Cuban state security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2022\/03\/01\/cuban-reportedly-arrested-for-leaving-flowers-at-ukrainian-embassy-in-havana\/\">arrested<\/a> an activist, Pablo Enrique Delgado Hern\u00e1ndez, last week for handing a bouquet of roses to a diplomat at the Ukrainian embassy in a gesture of defiance to the official government stance.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1646222468875000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1__ppp1QWv9eqrKmuj9YvV\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1646222468875000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3pB323zxHDBfaVfWisSYER\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granma, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, published an article on Thursday praising Fidel Castro for allegedly spearheading an effort to help the victims of the 1986<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}