Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has found proof of American support for an end to the United States' embargo on Cuba in an article printed in The New York Times this past weekend titled "Obama Should End the Embargo on Cuba."

According to EFE, Castro cited the article in an article of his own, which was published Tuesday.

"Scanning a map of the world must give President Obama a sinking feeling as he contemplates the dismal state of troubled bilateral relationships his administration has sought to turn around," reads The New York Times article written by the newspaper's Editorial Board. "He would be smart to take a hard look at Cuba, where a major policy shift could yield a significant foreign policy success. For the first time in more than 50 years, shifting politics in the United States and changing policies in Cuba make it politically feasible to re-establish formal diplomatic relations and dismantle the senseless embargo."

According to EFE, the United States ended diplomatic ties with Cuba in 1961. Castro took power after the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

Castro wrote that the article shows an interest in "the greatest benefit for U.S. policy in the difficult situation, when political, economic, financial and trade problems are growing."

The former leader, who gave power to his little brother Raul in 2006 because of illness, did however have an issue with the article's "gratuitous" mention that the communist country's "authoritarian government still harasses and detains dissidents."

On the other hand, Castro enjoyed that the newspaper called Cuba "one of the most educated societies in the hemisphere."

"That is true acknowledgment," Castro wrote.

In an different article titled "Uncertain Future," published on Oct. 8 by Granma, Cuba's official newspaper, Castro shared his opinion on Jens Stoltenberg, the new NATO chief, saying he is on a mission to exterminate the Russians.

"How much hate in his face! What an incredible effort to promote a war of extermination against the Russian Federation! Who are more extreme than the Islamic State extremists themselves?" Castro wrote.

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