Cuban President Fidel Castro salutes Cuban army generals, left to right, Guillermo Garcia, Ramiro Valdez, former interior minister, and Juan Almeida, before the beginning of a revolutionary demonstration in the Alamar neighborhood, just east of Havana, Saturday, April 6, 2002. (AP Photo/Cristobal Herrera)
He and his comrades are old but their strips are still the same. He's been busy grooming Hugo Chavez in Venezuela
Venezuela Oil Workers' Dispute Could Threaten Supplies for U.S.****Describing the conflict as "very worrisome," John H. Lichtblau, chairman of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation in New York, said: "Venezuela has been a top foreign source for the United States for a long time. Potentially, this is a bigger threat for the U.S. market than disruptions in the Middle East, which are hypothetical. This isn't hypothetical." A clash on Thursday between government supporters and opposition party members at a drilling site in Monagas State killed two oil workers and injured three, the police said today.****