Fidel Castro: Cuba Lost Best Friend Ever
Hugo Chavez also Castro's best sugar daddy ever
Cuba's Fidel Castro praised the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday as a champion of the poor and said Cubans had lost their best friend ever, in his first comments on the death last week of his socialist ally.
Castro said the news, although not unexpected, had been a hard blow.
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Too funny. I can just picture one of those BFFF sketches on MadTV. Couple of dictating goof balls. Have them walk with Sean Penn, Dennis Rodman and the Trudeau boys.
BFF.
Nuts!
I thought this was about *Castro* kicking the bucket. Oh, well, one down...