Castro: Obama's friendly smile is hiding sinister intentions

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US President Barack Obama@@@s "friendly smile and African-American face" are hiding Washington@@@s sinister intentions for Latin America, Fidel Castro said Monday, in what was seen as more evidence of a new cooling in US-Cuba relations after a thaw had seemed possible just months ago.
In a letter to Hugo Chavez that the Venezuelan president read at the close of a summit of leftist Latin American nations Monday, Castro said the US "empire is on the offensive again" in the region.
He blamed Washington for a military coup that toppled leftist President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras in June and criticized a US agreement with Colombia that allows US troops greater access to seven of that country@@@s military bases.
"They are obviously the real intentions of the empire, this time under the friendly smile and African-American face of Barack Obama," Castro said.
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