Fidel Castro responded Monday to President Barack Obama's historic trip to Cuba with a long letter recounting the history of U.S. aggression against Cuba, writing that "we don't need the empire to give us any presents," abc News reports
The 1,500-word letter in state media titled "Brother Obama" was Castro's first response to the president's three-day visit last week, in which the American president said he had come to bury the two countries' history of Cold War hostility.
Obama did not meet with the 89-year-old Fidel Castro on the trip but met several times with his 84-year-old brother Raul Castro, the current Cuban president.
In the letter among others Fidel Castro writes: "My modest suggestion is that he reflects and doesn't try to develop theories about Cuban politics."