If there's one thing you can say about dictators, they tend not to work and play well with others. Give a guy complete control of everything and after the re-education camps and mass graves, the next thing you get are highly inconsiderate gestures. Such as:
Fidel Castro warned that the life of leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in danger, and said he would blame the United States if his close friend and ally is killed.
Castro's remarks came during a six-hour speech that lasted until 4 a.m. Saturday and closed an international globalization conference in Havana attended by hundreds of economists.
6 hours! According to reports, those in attendance were hoping the US would consider killing them as well, if it meant they could get out this conference. An audience for a leftist political rally hasn't been this bored since the coronation of Michael Dukakis in 1988 where a failed governor of a small state (as he was known then) turned in this performance:
He made his first during the 1988 gathering in Atlanta, where he delivered a long and rambling keynote address that received its loudest applause from the restless convention crowd when he uttered the phrase: "In conclusion."
Not to be outdone in the lack of social graces department, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, the intended beneficiary of Castro's protective threats, had this say in response:
"They are not going to succeed, my dear friend, you will see they will not," added the 50-year-old. "I will become an old man, like you."
According to uncorroborated reports, Chavez added: "I'll be so old, I'll start to stink like a dead rat drown in an open sewer hole inside a Turkish prison, like you my friend."
Castro's spokesman later attributed that particular odor to an overly fermented Cohiba.
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