HAVANA -- Fidel Castro is questioning why the U.S. and other countries sent soldiers to quake-ravaged Haiti, saying military presence hindered international cooperation.
The former Cuban president writes that "without anyone knowing how or why," Washington dispatched troops "to occupy Haitian territory," and other nations followed suit.
In an opinion column Sunday in state-controlled media, Castro said neither the U.N nor the U.S. "has offered an explanation to the people of the world."
Castro noted that several governments complained that the troops kept them from landing aid flights and called on the U.N. to investigate.
Castro is part of a chorus of leftist voices speaking out against the U.S. involvement in Haiti relief.
Bolivian President Evo Morales, a Castro ally, is seeking a U.N. condemnation of what he called the U.S. occupation of Haiti. Venezuela's leftist president Hugo Chavez went even as far to claim that a U.S. arms test set off the Haiti quake.
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