Team Infidel
Forum Spin Doctor
Philadelphia Inquirer
November 29, 2008
HAVANA - Russia's president met with ailing revolutionary icon Fidel Castro yesterday, winding up a visit aimed at freshening relations with his country's old Cold War ally and raising Moscow's profile across the rest of the Latin America.
Dmitry A. Medvedev spent hours talking and sightseeing with President Raul Castro before meeting privately with his 82-year-old older brother. Medvedev and Raul Castro laid a wreath at a monument to Soviet soldiers who died while serving in Cuba in the early 1960s.
Russian officials deny that Medvedev's four-nation trip is meant to provoke the United States, but the chat with Fidel Castro capped meetings with Washington's staunchest opponents in the region.
Medvedev toured a visiting Russian warship Thursday with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and earlier met with Bolivia's Evo Morales and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, saying Russia might participate in a socialist trade bloc founded by Chavez and Cuba.
--AP
November 29, 2008
HAVANA - Russia's president met with ailing revolutionary icon Fidel Castro yesterday, winding up a visit aimed at freshening relations with his country's old Cold War ally and raising Moscow's profile across the rest of the Latin America.
Dmitry A. Medvedev spent hours talking and sightseeing with President Raul Castro before meeting privately with his 82-year-old older brother. Medvedev and Raul Castro laid a wreath at a monument to Soviet soldiers who died while serving in Cuba in the early 1960s.
Russian officials deny that Medvedev's four-nation trip is meant to provoke the United States, but the chat with Fidel Castro capped meetings with Washington's staunchest opponents in the region.
Medvedev toured a visiting Russian warship Thursday with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and earlier met with Bolivia's Evo Morales and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, saying Russia might participate in a socialist trade bloc founded by Chavez and Cuba.
--AP