[NYer]

Cuban President Fidel Castro addresses the audience in Havana, April 7, 2005. President Castro talked for more than four hours about Pope John Paul II and his 1998 visit to the island, eulogizing him as a fierce critic of savage capitalism, Third World poverty, foreign debt, excessive consumerism, exploitation and war. Castro also said that the Pope had been falsely portrayed as an 'angel of death for Communism and Socialism' when the truth was he had become U.S. imperialism's 'biggest headache.' PICTURE TAKEN APRIL 7 REUTERS/Courtesy AIN

[CitizenM]

Duh! I was really going to go to bed. Then I read this. Oh, that petty little demon Castro. Remember when PJPII went there and Castro wore a suit? Everyone thought it was out of respect. IMHO I always figured Castro was just plain frightened of the Pope. He knew where he was going to go when he (Castro himself) died, so he was trying very hard to get a little good grace from John Paul,II. It was for a personal reason, not out of political/official respect.

Now he has turned that visit into one of support of communism?! LOL, tell that to the party that held Poland. Oh the poor people of Cuba, they are so cut off from the world, it is like they are on another planet. What will happen when Castro dies? When reality reaches them they will go bezerk with confusion.