Fidel Castro

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez embraces Cuban Omara Portuondo, the 79-year-old diva of the legendary Buena Vista Social Club group, as she performs during the closing session of the 5th Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas ALBA alliance summit in Havana December 14, 2009. Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro warned on Monday that President Barack Obama's "kindly smile" could not be trusted, saying Washington was plotting against leftist Latin American governments including Venezuela's. Chavez, Washington's most outspoken critic in Latin America, called Obama "the Nobel War Prize" winner on Monday.