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Caribbean-Latin America
Castro speaks live for first time since July 2006
2007-10-15
(Xinhua) -- Cuban leader Fidel Castro spoke by telephone with his visiting Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez on Sunday in a live TV show, the first of its kind since July 2006. "There is electricity in the air," Chavez said during Castro's call to his "Alo, Presidente!" program, which means "everyone is electrified to hear Castro."
"Señor Presidente! What was it like, having sex with Señor Commandante?"
"When it was over, we enjoyed a good cigar. Now we are complete compañeros!"
Sunday's television show, broadcast from the eastern Cuban city of Santa Clara, also aired a 17-minute documentary on Saturday's four-hour Castro-Chavez meeting. Castro, 81, appears fragile but alert in the video, in which he discussed the Argentine guerilla leader Ernesto Guevara, better known by his nickname Che, who was a key figure in the 1959 Cuban revolution. "The ideas of the revolution have been sown all across Latin America and today's circumstances are more susceptible than ever for these ideas to sprout for the revolution that Che Guevara spoke of," said Castro. Chavez's program was meant to celebrate Guevara who died some 40 years ago in Bolivia, executed by Bolivian government forces while fighting alongside Bolivian insurgents.
Posted by:Fred

#5  Text of the conversation:

Chavez: Hola, Senor Presidente!
Castro: Brains
Chavez: Senor Presidente?
Castro: BRAINS!!!
Posted by: DMFD   2007-10-15 22:07  

#4  That wasn't Castro...

Remember the Woody Allen movie, "Sleeper"?

The scene in the lab with the doctors :
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"Unfortunately, preparations for a successor...
have never been adequately clear.
In short, we have been in the throes
of a major crisis. As for our leader,
the emergency department rushed to the scene
of the accident immediately, but all that remained
of him was this -- this is our leader's nose.
(Nose was shown at this point)

Using great presence of mind, we rushed the nose
to our closest delta laboratory which is here...
Where, through massive biochemical effort,
It has been kept alive for nearly a year.

Our dream has been that by cloning,
we would reduplicate the entire leader again."
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from :
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/s/sleeper-script-transcript-woody-allen.html
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To me this is proof that Happy Hugo was talking to an impostor....
Posted by: BigEd   2007-10-15 16:27  

#3  Soon...

Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-10-15 07:23  

#2  Belafonte and Chavez are hoping to team up to sing "Day-O" together.
Posted by: gorb   2007-10-15 02:12  

#1  I wonder which politicians and lefty celebrities will fly to Havana to pay their respects when the old murderer and pop-star finally does go back to hell?

Imagine the pious drivel we will hear from the likes of Barbara Walters and Sean Penn. (Walters once called Fidel "the sexiest man I have ever met.")

Will the media try to outdo each other in running 24/7 grief-a-thon coverage on the JFK/Princess Di model?
Will Bryan Williams and Keith Olbermann bring out their most reverentially hushed tones as they describe Castro's carcass wending its way past the weeping throngs in Havana?
Will a somber Katy Couric wear her black mourning dress again?

Btw, serious party-animals should do everything possible to be in Miami when Fidel does finally kick off.
Posted by: Unosh Poodle8762   2007-10-15 01:38  

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