Fidel Castro blasts Obama’s Cuba trip

HAVANA: Fidel Castro laid into Barack Obama after the US president’s historic visit to Cuba in a testy newspaper column Monday, saying the communist island doesn’t need any “gifts from the empire.”

The retired revolutionary, who has reacted tepidly to Cuba’s rapprochement with the United States, scoffed at what he described as Obama’s call to forgive and forget more than half a century of Cold War enmity.