Posted on 11/12/2008 6:28:38 PM PST by NormsRevenge
HAVANA – Cuba on Wednesday presented a new book by Fidel Castro, who has not appeared in public since undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in July 2006 but who authorities claim spent more than 400 hours working on the manuscript.
"La Paz en Colombia," or "Peace in Colombia," explores Cuba's role in attempts to end Colombia's civil war, which has raged for more than four decades.
The 265-page book was presented during a Havana ceremony that Castro did not attend, though one of his sons was there, as was Ricardo Alarcon, head of the country's rubber-stamp parliament.
Several rounds of peace talks between the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army, Colombia's second-largest guerrilla group, were held in Havana but did not lead to any major agreements.
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Chalk another one up for Bill Ayers?
Castro and Dear Leader should collaborate.
Did he get paid with rice cookers?
I found how the World had been misled by prostitute Writers,
to ascribe the greatest Exploits in War to Cowards,
the wisest Counsel to Fools,
Sincerity to Flatterers,
Roman Virtue to Betrayers of their Country,
Piety to Atheists,
Chastity to Sodomites,
Truth to Informers.
Jonathan Swift (III:8;5)
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