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Castro attacks European leaders and rejects EU aid

Cuban President Fidel Castro has marked the 50th anniversary of the guerrilla battle that launched the Cuban revolution by delivering a withering attack on the EU and individual leaders in Europe.

Addressing a rally of 10,000 supporters in Santiago on Saturday, Mr Castro rejected EU aid to the island and suggested that the EU was a pawn of the United States, describing it as "the superpower's Trojan horse".

Moreover, he criticised what he called Europe's "arrogant and calculatin...

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