Fidel Goes to a Donk, er, Dolphin Show

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/09/fidel-cuban-model-doesnt-even-work-for-us-anymore/62602/.  A sort of remarkable and very odd write up by Atlantic Monthly on a recent visit with Castro in Havana.  Notable items were:
1. Castro says the Cuban model doesn't work for Cuba.  Now he tells us--what a joker that Fidel is with his revolutions and missile crisis capers and Bay of Pigs stuff and all that. 
2. He likes dolphins a lot and enjoys the local dolphin show which is closed on Mondays except when Fidel wants to see a good dolphin show on a Monday.  Then, the workers all "voluntarily" show up.
3. He knows a good Persian rug when he sees it.
4. He seems to have recovered from his digestive troubles to enjoy red (of course) wine.
5. Che Guevarra's daughter works at the dolphin show.  I guess that's better than the Bautista era show where she would have worked.

Castro ponders his love for Flipper

6. Fidel sometimes pretends that he is Ernest Hemingway, lounging nude while throwing down daiquiris and regaling visiting Harvard grad students with tales of downing the "big five" in Africa and sharing a safari tent with Ava Gardner and a stunning Nubian princess on the plains of the Serengeti.  Allegedly.