Castro puts pressure on Cubans:
What sounds like a 1950s vision for the future -- a pressure cooker in every kitchen! -- is Fidel Castro's latest attempt to reassert control over his nation's centralized economy.
He who controls the means of cooking, controls the future.
On an island where much still resembles the 1950s and where low-cost, slow-cooked beans and rice accompany most meals, Castro's appetizing promise to make 100,000 pressure cookers available every month won a standing ovation from women Tuesday.
In Tuesday's 5½-hour speech--long enough to boil beans into mush--Castro said the pressure cookers would be available starting in April.
A five-and-a-half hour speech on pressure cookers? Fidel's still got it.
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