Cheney’s defense of enhanced interrogation blasted by … Fidel Castro

HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro criticized former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney for defending American interrogation methods against terror suspects, saying in comments published Wednesday that torture should never be used to extract information.

The former Cuban president accused the United States of engaging in terrorism against Cuba after the 1959 revolution he led, citing U.S.-backed plans to overthrow his government in its early years, including the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.

Castro's comments, which appeared in an essay posted on a government Web site Wednesday evening, were aimed at Cheney's speech last week in which he defended the counterterrorism policies of the administration of former President George W. Bush.