October 28, 2005
fidel sends his errand-boy out
...to Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Diego Maradona, of course. He just got done meeting with fidel in Havana and next thing we know, he's leading anti-U.S. protests, as President Bush heads to Argentina, for the Summit of the Americas next week. castro is already screaming about the free trade President can offer the beleaguered nations of the hemisphere. But he also is going to have to face ... that ... in the streets, flashing his che tattoos. So far, so gross.
But it's probably worse than it looks. On the one hand, you might say to yourself - big deal, washed-up soccer star, desperate for attention, who is going to pay any heed to him? Don't we have washed-up Hollywood types who do the same thing?
But Maradona remains immensely popular in Argentina, as his recent 2004 brush with death from drug-abuse showed. There was a huge fan outpouring. The other thing is - Argentina already is the most anti-American country in the region -
our friend Boz has a link to an Economist survey that shows just that very fact.
My own suspicion is that fidel sent him on this errand. Some of our intelligent posters here have noted that fidel secretly harbors contempt for the former soccer star turned castro/che human billboard. He isn't going to give him anything intelligent to do. castro is very clever and Maradona isn't, not exactly, not anymore. So instead, castro's going to send Maradona to star in this clown show. As an errand for his errand boy. What's bad is that it might end up being something big.
Posted by Mora at October 28, 2005 02:08 PM
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that article from the economist was interesting as hell, i had read it this morning and thought about it as i started reading this post.. here is a link to the economist, more charts there
Posted by: daniel at October 28, 2005 02:49 PM
I wonder if the atorrante Maradona will be taking his teenage Cuban mistress with him. Here are the photos of them having sex and Maradona snorting cocaine.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/argentina/escandalo.htm
Here is another photo of Maradone kissing his master's hand. Tremendo arrastrado.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/argentina/maradona-besa-amo.jpg
Posted by: delacova at October 28, 2005 04:43 PM
Here's another photo of the swollen idiot Maradona showing off his new tattoo. (slightly photoshopped)
Posted by: PTG at October 29, 2005 01:52 AM
what else can I say but: that guy is nasty!!!
Posted by: nurian at October 31, 2005 03:01 PM
