He’s back. Well, sort of.
After being missing in print for nine months, retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro, 86, has shown up again in one of his “Reflections” columns in the Cuban Communist Party daily Granma. In his return to published musings, Castro urged restraint on the Korean peninsula and warned of potential nuclear catastrophe. And while he did admonish North Korea, he reiterated that the world’s foremost nuclear loose-cannon, Stalinist state will continue to be an ally of Cuba. Begs the sobering question of what it would actually take for North Korea to even jeopardize its ally status with Cuba. Perhaps a future “Reflections” column will provide more insight.
And lest we forget, weren’t the Soviets more than concerned about Castro’s seemingly itchy trigger finger back in October 1962?