Cuban President Castro addresses audience during closing of economists conference.
Cuban President Fidel Castro addresses the audience during an almost six-hour-long speech at the closing of a conference of economists critical of economic globalization and free market policies, in Havana February 12, 2005. Castro warned the U.S. government against plotting to assassinate his most important ally, Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez. REUTERS/Claudia Daut CD/HB
