Under Watch: Fidel Castro and Mexico’s Obrador
Under watch:
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, 80, recuperating from stomach surgery. His megalomania has always baffled me, since it's believed he drinks little. However, as suggested in the "runners-up"section, he may be, like Yasir Arafat, an amphetamine or cocaine addict. Behavioral evidence that his emotional state is stuck in his teens (the emotional state of the addict gets "stuck"the day he or she triggers addiction) can be found in the fact that, as Pope John Paul II's biographer George Weigel puts in a piece entitled, "Don't cry for him, Cubanos,"in The Los Angeles Times, "I remember walking the streets of Havana [in January 1998]…thinking that this is what a country would look like if it were run for decades by ...
