Fidel Castro turns 89; says US has hefty debt to Cuba for damages caused by long embargo

FILE - In this July 4, 2015 file photo, a poster of Fidel Castro with a message that reads in Spanish: "Fidel, forever Fidel!" decorates the administrative office window of state-run food stores, in Havana, Cuba. Castro is celebrating his 89th birthday, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, with a newspaper column repeating assertions that the U.S. owes socialist Cuba “numerous millions of dollars” for damages caused by a decades-long embargo. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File) (The Associated Press)

In this photo provided by the Bolivian Information Agency (ABI), Bolivia's President Evo Morales, right, greets Cuba's Fidel Castro inside a van parked outside Morales' hotel in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. Morales is in Cuba for Castro's 89th birthday. (Ivan Maldonado/ABI via AP) (The Associated Press)

A black and white image of Fidel Castro is propped up against a wall in an apartment building undergoing renovations in Old Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. Castro marked his 89th birthday Thursday, with a newspaper column repeating assertions that the U.S. owes socialist Cuba ìnumerous millions of dollarsî for damages caused by a decades-long embargo. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) (The Associated Press)