Fidel Castro looked alert and healthier in a video taped Friday, the first images released of the ailing 81-year-old leader in more than three months. In the images aired unexpectedly on state television Friday evening, Castro wore a red, blue and white jumpsuit with "F. Castro" in small block letters. The Cuban leader spoke slowly and softly and didn't always look the interviewer in the eye, but appeared to be thinking clearly.Officials broke into regularly scheduled programming only minutes earlier to announce that an hour-long "conversation" with Castro would be shown.
Castro mentioned the price of oil and the value of the Euro against the dollar, evidence that the video was recorded Friday, as Cuban officials said. At times, it was hard to follow his train of thought as he spoke about a wandering essay he published in state media Wednesday.
Which means, of course, continued oppression for the people of Cuba.
Couldn't the CIA arrange for him to receive a Semtex suppository?
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You can watch the entire hour-long interview with Fidel Castro right here. It will mean even more disappointment for the rightist Cuban exile militants in Miami and beyond. Ha!
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/secciones/siempre_con_fidel/art-080.html
|| Posted by Walter Lippmann, September 22, 2007 10:19 AM ||Yeah, you pro-Communist scumbag. Life in Cuba is so good that people are dying (literally) to get out -- while I don't see many folks fighting to get in for the "better life" that Castro's communist paradise supposedly offers.
|| Posted by Rhymes With Right, September 22, 2007 04:05 PM ||Post a comment