Fidel who?
Fidel who?
Chicago Tribune: Flush with Cold War nostalgia, Fidel Castro rose from his death bed last week to make an important announcement: The U.S. is dangerously close to nuclear war with North Korea and Iran. Inspired perhaps by last week’s ’70s-style U.S.-Russian spy trade, the communist icon, now 83, issued that dark warning in an hourlong interview on Cuban television.
Don’t feel bad if you missed it. Few are taking Castro seriously — even Cubans seem uninterested. Though Castro clearly still has influence within Cuba’s bureaucracy, his people don’t seem to hang on his every word these days. Maybe it’s because he’s been largely absent from public view for four years, since handing the reins to his not-much-younger brother Raul. Maybe the Adidas tracksuit doesn’t command the same respect as the old camouflage fatigues.
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