Castro maintained that Cuba -- a one-party state -- is the most democratic country in the world because it looks after the social rights of its people, with free health and education.


Literacy is higher in Cuba than in many industrialized nations, and infant mortality lower than in the United States, where 44 million people do not have medical coverage, he said.


The average age Cubans can expect to live to will rise to 80 in five years, Castro said.

Catro did visited the United States by it was in 1959. Click here to read the article.