February 21, 2008
BRAZIL EARNING IT'S PLACE ON THE AXIS OF GOOD:
Raul Castro asks Lula da Silva help with transition process (MercoPress, 2/20/08)
Cuba’s interim president Raul Castro requested advise and help from Brazil’s Luis Inacio Lula da Silva “to accelerate the political and economic transition process” in the island according to Wednesday edition of the prestigious Folha de Sao Paulo.The newspaper reports that during the January Brazilian presidential visit to Havana, Raul Castro praised Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez for having helped Cuba “in a particularly tough moment of the ongoing confrontation with the United States George W Bush administration”.
Nevertheless Fidel Castro brother is quoted saying that Brazil “is a far more convenient associate than Venezuela’s Chavez”, for the transition period.
It's almost worth having Fidel survive another year or two just so he has to watch the Cuba/America rapproachment. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 21, 2008 4:15 PM
Fidel isn't alive. He died a couple of years ago; however, I do agree with your suggestion. It would have been nice to have seen Castro's reaction to the opening of the Havana Walmart. I will take comfort in reaction by the smelly left in America to the opening of the Havana Walmart.
Posted by: pchuck at February 21, 2008 5:30 PM