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Signs we live on the edge in the tropics
Text and Photo by Pipo Taun Chau
T H E W Y N W O O D T I M E S MAY 2015
When Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro recently
pressed flesh in Panama City before the Summit of the
Americas, many locals here wondered if their public hookup
might lead to a bit of socialist on capitalist bone slobbering.
Times may have changed but this guy’s politics never will. With
Obama and Castro now calling each other BFF’s this fellow kept
busy announcing that Fidel had croaked, joining Hugo Chavez
in that VIP section of Dante’s Inferno exclusively reserved for
dastardly dictators.
This Evil Empire watchdog even intoned that Cold War tensions
helped alleviate his arthritis. Santiago Portal, a retired civil
engineer and inventor, took his beef over changes proposed to
the Cuban embargo to the streets with a notable jig in his step.
The entire time he sternly warned Obama to beware getting his
sphincter reamed by the shady Castro while admitting that our
president has so far “done a credible job of leading America.”
Portal’s sign claims: “Fidel is dead and will be buried in a hole-
riddled box resembling Swiss cheese to help keep the worms
from vomiting.”
Best of all, for those obsessed with political street theater, if
you stop to salute this dapper freedom fighter he promises to
give you one mean mambo lesson and his thoughts on relations
between Washington and Havana, all without demanding you
share his views or become his Twitter slave. Gracias Viejo eres
tremendo socio para que lo sepas!