Castro: Bush turning world into good and bad guys

Cuban president says Bush is spreading 'Nazi concepts'

Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks Saturday to thousands of Cubans in Santiago de Cuba.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA (CNN) -- For a third Saturday, Cuban President Fidel Castro spoke before hundreds of thousands of Cubans, this time in Santiago de Cuba, to attack Washington's Cuba policy and particularly United States President George W. Bush.

Referring to President Bush's May 20 Cuba policy speech -- which called for free and internationally verifiable elections in Cuba -- Castro said, "He went too far in his speech. He was rude. He insulted. He lied, and he threatened."

He then said that U.S. foreign policy is becoming more and more akin to that of Nazi Germany.

"The power and prerogatives of that country's president are so extensive, and the economic and technological and military power network in that nation is so pervasive, that due to circumstances that fully escape the will of the American people, the world is coming under the rule of Nazi concepts and methods," he said.

The Cuban leader said that since September 11, the United States has turned the world into good and bad guys, and the only judge of who is good and bad is the U.S. president himself.

This Saturday's rally was organized by the Cuban government as part of what Castro says is the Cuban people's response to President Bush's tough Cuba policy, which includes a hardening of the U.S. embargo against Cuba and restrictions on travel to the communist island.

Santiago de Cuba, on the southeastern coast of the island about 50 miles from the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo, is Cuba's second largest city.