He jwas just on the news. It was on every spanish speaking television channel. We know it is not bullshit because he spoke about the Euro rising to $1.41.
That's about the only thing I understood cause boy oh boy, old age sucks.
It was a hours pre-recorded interview. Randy Alonso said that it had been taped that same day.
http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2007/septie...armas.html
He also waived a copy of the new book by Alan Greenspan. He quoted a Spanish translation which seemed to be from an introduction - "I’d been President Ford’s White House economic advisor in the mid-1970s, but nothing fully prepared me for what I faced when President Reagan nominated me Fed Chairman in June 1987. So, in the waning months of my Fed tenure, I started getting excited about having time to stand back and think about all I’d been through – the frightening stock market crash of 1987, the boom of the 1990s, the trauma of 9/11, the climactic end of the Cold War, all told, a cascade of events propelling a new world forward at warp speed.
"There was also a personal story to tell. I’d known every president from Richard Nixon to Reagan, Ford, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. And what about all those other assorted characters from my childhood in New York, my years as a jazz musician...
as if it was some weighty revelation, and Alonso repeated that quote when the programme returned to the studio.
Alonso had a strange grin throughout - I was not sure if he was just trying not to wet himself from excitement, or if he didn't know how to respond to the deep thoughts of el commandante.
I think he had that stupid look on his face because he didn't understand one word the Comandante was saying. Good Grief. Who the heck could follow that?
Mercy Wrote:I think he had that stupid look on his face because he didn't understand one word the Comandante was saying. Good Grief. Who the heck could follow that?
Fidel?
I'm just trying to figure out what message God would have us get out of the fact that someone like Fidel seems to have more lives than a Havana housecat.
There are lots of people his age that are doing much better than him. All this talk about him being the "energizer bunny" etc. tends to mythologize him. He's the same age as Jimmy Carter. When Carter visited in 2002 they both threw out opening pitches at a baseball game. They had to move Fidel closer to the plate because physically he wasn't very good. Carter was twice as articulate as Fidel at the time.
Because people keep expecting him to die adds to his own legend. Basta! When he dies, he dies. If the government is keeping it a secret, we will find out. Please stop feeding the guy's ego.
Zelig, Fidel eats a bowl of ego along with his oatmeal every morning!
What you say is true. He looks very unhealthy. I have seen guajiros working on farms who are older than Fidel, and aren't doing the "old folk shuffle" like he is.
Fidel has also lead a very unhealthy lifestyle. Fidel in his younger days would sit down and have 3 steaks along with rice, beans and the staple cuban salad of tomatos and avocado just for lunch.
The cigars didn't do any good either. When he did decide to take control of his diet, it was too late.
Kind of like changing the oil in your car after the first 75,000 miles. The damage to the engine has already been done.
He fed the Cuban people Soy meat but he ate cow beef. Maybe if he would have lived by the Libreta, he would be healthier.
In the copy of granma I read in cuba last week it showed fidel confering with the president of angola he sure as hell look pretty frail some body had given him a track suit; it looked a few sizes to big on him