Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro, former Cuban President, has signalled continued resistance to rapprochement between Washington and Havana.
Mr. Castro wrote in an opinion piece Monday in the Granma newspaper that "Cuba has no need of gifts from the empire."
The 89 year old former president, remained out of sight during last week's historic visit to the island by US President Barack Obama which aimed to cement normalisation of relations between the two countries.
In his first published remarks about the visit, Mr. Castro seemed unwilling to move past a half-century of enmity between the two states.
His remarks were published in a piece entitled El Hermano Obama or Brother Obama.
Mr. Castro said that listening to the words of the US president could give anyone a heart attack.
Mr. Obama's visit was the first by a US president in 88 years.
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