Castro fears biofuel plans will hurt world's poor

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro returned again to public debate -- if not view -- on Wednesday with a newspaper column denouncing U.S. promotion of using food crops for biofuels.

For the second time in less than a week, Castro chided the Bush administration for its support of ethanol production for automobiles, a move that the 80-year-old revolutionary said would leave the world's poor hungry.

"From where and who will they supply the more than 500 million tons of corn and other cereals that United States, Europe and the rich countries are going to need to produce the quantity of gallons of ethanol that the big companies of the United States and other countries demand in return for their many investments?" he asked.