Cuban President Fidel Castro says there will be combat if any judge abroad seeks to place him under arrest. His comment is part of a letter delivered to the Listin Diario in response to comments made by Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon in an interview. Judge Garzon went down in history for ordering the arrest of Chilean strongman General Augusto Pinochet. Garzon was asked whether he would dare to send Fidel Castro to jail. He replied that in Spain the Constitution does not allow proceedings against active heads of state. Thus, only an international penal court could proceed against Castro. The newspaper published Castro’s letter in its Sunday, 29 April edition. In it, he warns: "If any judge or any authority in Spain or any other OTAN country attempts to arrest me, making use of arbitrary extraterritorial means and violating rights that are sacred, he should know before hand that there will be war, regardless of where they attempt to do so. I believe in the extraterritoriality of honor and human dignity," said Castro.
