King Fidel on Cuban T.V. Again

Cuban state t.v. has released a video of King Fidel and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez taken this past Monday. Fidel reads a headline from Argentina's Clarin dated January 29, 2007. A printout of a story showing Clarin's logo and the date of the story are shown in the video.

there are samples from the video here and here.



the video does not show Fidel walking, as the last one did. rather, he is shown standing, taking only a few steps, or sitting. this tells me that Fidel is still having great difficulty walking, as shown last time around.

he has difficulty speaking as well, as he did in the last video. at times, his responses to Chavez seem disjointed, but that may be because he slurs some of his words.

when reading from Clarin about global warming, Fidel is quick to launch into an attack on capitalist society, which he says is threatening the human species. that much is vintage Fidel.

the video certainly shows that Fidel can stand, sit, talk, and rail against his standard better noir. however, Fidel is still frail and obviously nowhere near being able to resume day-to-day control of Cuban affairs.