Castro's Cigars and Ahmadinejad's Tobacco

Tuesday, September 28 2010

By Adel Al Toraifi | Asharq Alawsat

Perhaps many have heard of the interesting interview that Fidel Castro, the retired Cuban leader had with "The Atlantic" magazine (September 8), where he said, "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore." He directed a message to the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop hating Jews and denying the holocaust. He described the Cuban Missile Crisis that was about to trigger a nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union as "it wasn't worth it at all". Are these the end-of-life confessions of an elderly man? Maybe. However, it is notable that these confessions have not bothered Castro himself as much as they have concerned those believing in the revolutionary model, or rather, say, the revolutionary era.

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