Fidel Castro is upset that Forbes magazine ranked him one of the world’s richest men, with an estimated net worth of $550 million.

From CNN:

“Once again, they have committed the infamy of speaking about Castro’s fortune, placing me almost above the queen of England,” Castro said in a speech to top officials of Cuba’s ruling Communist Party, military and police.

“Do they think I am (former Zairian President) Mobutu (Sese Seko) or one of the many millionaires, those thieves and plunderers, that the empire has suckled and protected?” he said in reference to his capitalist archenemy, the United States.

An official statement by the Cuban government said that Cuba “has the fairest income distribution in the world.” Sure, the entire population lives in abject Marxist poverty. That’s like saying a graveyard has the “fairest distribution of life.”

(Update: Here comes the Brook-alanche. Thanks, Damian!)