DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Cuban President Fidel Castro is among the leaders attending the U.N. Millennium Summit in New York. It's the Cuban leader's first visit to the U.S. since 1995. CNN's Lucia Newman now takes a closer look at how Mr. Castro is being received.</s>LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN HAVANA BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): After a five-year absence, Cuba's leader is back in New York, and still stirring political passions. The leader of the only communist nation in the Western Hemisphere is loathed by these members of the Cuban exile community, many of whom flew up from Miami to protest.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are here on behalf of the thousands and thousands of martyrs, victims, political prisoners and the people of Cuba who have been inflicted so much pain and suffering throughout more than four decades of totalitarian rule by Fidel Castro.</s>NEWMAN: Castro was greeted with kisses by Cuban diplomats and their families. But while he looks relaxed, he's one of the dignitaries under extra-special security protection. He nonetheless remains defiant. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly, Castro attacked the role of the industrialized nations.</s>PRES. FIDEL CASTRO, CUBA (through translator): Three dozen developed and wealthy nations that have the monopoly of economic, technological and political power have joined us here in this gathering to offer us more of the same recipes that have only served to make us poorer, more exploited, and more dependent.</s>NEWMAN (on camera): President Castro came here to push for a more democratic, more representative United Nations, but he's doing so before a forum where more and more of his peers are telling him that democracy must also be practiced at home. Lucia Newman, CNN, at the United Nations.</s>BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: All right, Lucia, thank you.
U.N. Millennium Summit: Castro Makes First U.S. Visit Since 1995