Pacific Standard May-June 2013 Cover

Happy Birthday Fidel, Part II


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Nothing says happy birthday like a well-crafted card; especially if it’s a rhapsodizing, poetic missive from a fellow Latin American leader. With that in mind Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega sent Fidel Castro a full page birthday greeting. An excerpt:

“Fidel, Fidel, Fidel, leader and prophet. Fidel, Fidel, Fidel, accomplishing the mission in the mission accomplished, and in the vision renewing yourself before each new circumstance in History!…Fidel, Fidel, Fidel, growing with each battle! Fidel, with a clear horizon, hammering out all the risks, all the crossroads, all the strategies, all forms…alerting, insisting, advising, beyond us all…more towards the world and from the world…in indispensable transcendence.”

via The Nicaraguan Dispatch

About Matt Skenazy

Matt Skenazy, an assistant editor at em>Outside magazine, is a former Pacific Standard fellow. His articles have appeared in Sierra, Men’s Journal, the Surfer’s Journal, and Climbing, among others publications. A 2012 editorial fellow at Pacific Standard, he began working with magazines in 2009, when he served as associate editor of Surfing. He holds a BA in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz.