Apparently like so:

Cuba’s Fidel Castro published his first editorial since his July surgery on Thursday, signing his name to a scathing article on U.S. biofuel plans for Thursday’s edition of the Communist Party newspaper Granma. […]

In Thursday’s article, Castro said more than 3 billion people in the world were condemned to die prematurely of hunger or thirst from plans by his ideological foe, the United States, to convert foodstuffs like corn into fuel for cars.

“This is not an exaggerated figure, it’s more likely cautious,” Castro wrote in the ruling Communist Party’s daily newspaper. “I’ve been meditating quite a bit since President Bush’s meeting with North American automobile makers.”

He was commenting on a proposal by the Bush administration to cut gasoline use by 20 percent by 2017, mostly by increasing the use of fuels such as ethanol, made from home-grown corn. (emphasis mine)

As I’ve pointed out before, there are interests in the alt-fuels crowd that we have to be careful of, because they aspire to the same artificial behemoth status that the oil companies currently hold.  In terms of energy savings, ethanol justifiably draws tons of skepticism, especially considering it’s not coming about as a result of a market order.  So there is reason to question it.  However, the claim that weaning off of gas (which Bush doesn’t actually want anyway) is going to trigger mass starvation is a humongous crock of shit: our government deliberately holds down corn imports anyway, and even if it didn’t it’s not like the entirety of the crops involved would consist of every single kernel in poor countries, that’d never happen.

That claim makes Castro an idiot.  What makes him a sock puppet is that he even cares about gasoline consumption.  This reeks of ghostwriting, if it were on an album the liner notes would list “H. Chavez”.  Rather amusing…