Have any of you been following this? It's amazing. And as confusing as all get out. It seems Fidel Castro has invited an American journalist down to Cuba to do some interviews with him and what he is saying is completely shocking. OK, he's 84 and up to his beard in health problems. I guess at that stage you do start taking stock in your life but he's making some revelations that are, to say the least, groundbreaking.
A couple of days ago some transcripts were released of the first interview where he admitted that the Cuban Missile Crisis of the early 1960's was the most mishandled thing he had ever seen and that it scared the shit out of him. A complete pissing contest between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union that put him totally in the cross hairs. He claims that if the Soviet Union had not totally silenced him he may have been able to diffuse it with a simple speech or two and kept us all from building those stupid freaking bomb shelters. BTW, my parents actually built one. Ah, yes, I remember those two weeks in October....
Today another transcript was released in which Castro admitted that the economic policies that the Cuban Revolution installed were a complete failure! Yes, he actually said that! Apparently that whole peasant/agrarian thing was a a complete waste of time in his mind. Can you say free enterprise? How about a capitalistic based economy? OK, disregard the U.S. embargo of almost half a century which did nothing for us and absolutely nothing to them. Except allow the rest of the world to come in and invest. And build 5-star resorts and golf courses for their enjoyment. I have met Canadians and Europeans that freely vacation in Cuba and love it down there because there are NO Americans to get in their way. Which has failed more, our embargo or his revolution?
I remember Castro with a raggy ass beard, a huge cigar and tattered army fatigues rolling into Havana on the top of a Soviet made truck and making the elite scatter to the harbor to board their yachts to Key West on New Years Eve. Today he is in a Reebok running suit and Adidas tennis shoes. What is up with that? It must be the Canadians that are sneaking all of that stuff down there for him. I also remember him addressing the UN. He was as animated and vitriolic as Hitler at a Nuremberg Rally. He railed on the US with a fervor that was unbelievable. He scared me more than that monkey in my closet!
What's next? Does he tell his brother Raul to legalize same sex marriage? Reopen the Copa Cabana and cover it with rainbow flags? Or does he just write a tell-all memoir and retire comfortably in Key West where he opens a B&B?
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