-DATE- 19911207 -YEAR- 1991 -DOCUMENT TYPE- -AUTHOR- -HEADLINE- Castro Interviewed by EL SOL DE MEXICO -PLACE- CARIBBEAN / Cuba -SOURCE- Mexico City NOTIMEX -REPORT NO.- FBIS-LAT-91-238 -REPORT DATE- 19911211 -HEADER- ********************* Report Type: Daily Report AFS Number: PA1112010191 Report Number: FBIS-LAT-91-238 Report Date: 11 Dec 91 Report Series: Daily Report Start Page: 4 Report Division: CARIBBEAN End Page: 4 Report Subdivision: Cuba AG File Flag: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Language: Spanish Document Date: 07 Dec 91 Report Volume: Wednesday Vol VI No 238 Dissemination: City/Source of Document: Mexico City NOTIMEX Report Name: Latin America Headline: Castro Interviewed by EL SOL DE MEXICO Subheadline: Discusses Central America Author(s): Mexico City newspaper EL SOL DE MEXICO; place and date of interview not given] Source Line: PA1112010191 Mexico City NOTIMEX in Spanish 1905 GMT 7 Dec 91 Subslug: [Report on sixth part of interview with President Fidel Castro by Mexico City newspaper EL SOL DE MEXICO; place and date of interview not given] -TEXT- FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Report on sixth part of interview with President Fidel Castro by Mexico City newspaper EL SOL DE MEXICO; place and date of interview not given] 2. [Text] Mexico City, 7 Dec (NOTIMEX)-Peace in Central America is the result of events and particular political changes unrelated to the United States' direct intervention, Cuban President Fidel Castro has said. 3. In the sixth part of an interview granted for the Mexican newspaper EL SOL DE MEXICO, Castro said that the area's transformation began before the U.S. Government of George Bush, who ``has nothing to do with the development of the events.'' 4. Castro said that, although the United States has had much to do with Nicaragua's internal politics, the pacification process in El Salvador responds to the peoples' struggle. He added: ``We look with great satisfaction upon such a process, which is not to be credited to Bush.'' 5. He asserted that U.S. policy under Ronald Reagan, who was ``more ideological,'' was different from U.S. policy under Bush, who is more ``pragmatic.'' For several reasons, he said, the current U.S. President acts ``with more hatred, particularly against Cuba.'' Without a doubt, he said, ``Bush enjoys more power because the collapse of the socialist field and the Soviet Union occurred in his time. The United States is at its greatest height of power, haughtiness, arrogance.'' 6. He admitted that Cuba helped revolutionary movements in Latin America but that ``we did not intervene in these countries. We always respected their sovereignty.'' Those were other times, he said. ``It was a time when everyone was at war with us. Other countries allied themselves with the United States to blockade and put us asunder, as well as to liquidate the Cuban Revolution. We felt compelled to fight them. It was a fight for survival.'' The exception was Mexico, the only country that neither joined the blockade nor broke relations with Cuba. This is why we have never backed any movement against the Mexican Government, he said. 7. Castro said that Cuba has always wanted to coexist with other nations in peace, regardless of the other countries' ideologies because the Cuban people uphold the principle of `` peaceful coexistence and aspire to live in this atmosphere.'' Times have changed, however, and ``Mexico has played an important role in this change.'' 8. He recalled that relations with Cuba were reestablished when democracy returned to the various countries on the continent. ``Democratization is being touted, but it cannot be said that this democratization was exported by the United States. If there is anything the United States has exported it is military coups and reactionary governments, but not democracy.'' 9. The Cuban president expressed appreciation for the democratic efforts to reestablish relations between Cuba and the United States. He said, however, that ``the possibilities for any Latin American president are very limited. The United States likes to tell other countries what to do, but refuses flatly to be told what to do or how to do it.'' 10. After admitting that positive changes, such as the payment of foreign debts and the development of democracies, have occurred in the world, he warned that revolutions will continue to be latent as long as no solutions are found to poverty, hunger, and unemployment. -END-