This is news?
Seriously, Castro and the Venuzuela despot are identified pals and Castro sure is incentivized to find someone to carry on after he's gone. The oil pact these two have forged is also a problem.
It might also explain placating Vicente Fox, what with his relationship with Castro and Chavez. I really hate this, I have to say...Chavez and Castro are like two heads on a bad rattlesnake, and Fox the...the...well, tail of the beast.
It's machismo run amok, no dobut about it. And that's only the good part.