Castro says Cuba doesn't want to rejoin "vile" OAS

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Source: Reuters

HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday Cuba had no desire to rejoin the Organization of American States, as called for by some of his allies, and did not even want to "hear the vile name of that institution."

Castro, in his third column published on Tuesday, said the OAS "has a history that collects all the trash of 60 years of betrayal of the people of Latin America."

He said the organization had been involved in "aggressive actions" that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

Cuba was suspended from the 35-member OAS in 1962 because the communist system created by Castro after he took power in a 1959 revolution was judged to be "incompatible" with the organization's principles.

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[Bacchus39]

1. cross that one off the Summit agenda n/t

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