Posted on 04/25/2003 1:21:47 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:08:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
On the night of April 4, all of Cuba's three government-owned television stations devoted their prime-time programming to Fidel Castro. Dressed in his trademark military fatigues, the 76-year-old commandante spoke for nearly five hours. This in itself was not unusual, but the president seemed in a surprisingly good mood given the events of the past week. A tense hostage standoff with a group of hijackers who commandeered a passenger ferry in an attempt to reach the United States had just been resolved, and all the hostages were safe.
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