The title of this post is also the title of a book that is to be published sometime soon..The author: none other than the man who was paid to keep Fidel alive.. Fabian Escalante..I aint too sure if the U.S.A actually tried to bump off the man 638 times... but i am sure no one doubts that the number is over twenty atleast... But Fidel still lives... and the man is Eighty... recovering from a surgery to his intestine..
Before i continue writing about Fidel and Cuba... i must confess... i do have Leftist sympathies.. but that dont make me a Communist.. and i am quoting a very wise man when i say this - " the very basis of communism is built around individuals not possessing more than what they need.. .this goes completely against human behaviour.. We all want more than what we have.." I second this opinion.. but i have always leaned towards the Left... Although i got really pissed when i found out that no fruit stall in Kolkata ( the capital of the state of West Bengal in India, which has a Communist Government for more than 3 decades) sold apples... Its not like i am overtly fond of apples.. just so happened that i needed one urgently at that point of time and couldnt find it anywhere.. reason the fruit sellers say - "NO ONE BUYS APPLES HERE".. i still blame the Communists for this.... For making me walk many kilometres in search of apples that were never there...
I wonder if the CIA ever poisoned Castro's apples.. but i guess they wouldnt have succeeded... but what amazedme and inspired me to write this post was one simple fact... The distance between Havana and Florida :- 90 miles... The distance between U.S.A and Afghanistan :- more than 6000 miles... Successive U.S governments have not been able to do anything to dislodge the Cuban Govenrnment under Fidel.. This small island led by a very big man has fought on.. and most importantly.. they have won...
The article that made me write this post ended with this joke which does the rounds in Cuba... A man once presented Fidel Castro a Galapagos Turtle ( or was it Tortoise) he said the turtle would live upto hundred years... and Fidel says..
THAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH PETS... JUST WHEN YOU GET ATTACHED TO THEM THEY DIE ON YOU
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