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M.HERALD/ When it hits the fan, blame the translator. So it goes, apparently, with Fidel Castro. It was all Julia Sweig's fault. The former president and strongman said today that he was "misinterpreted" when a US reporter wrote he said that the "Cuban model doesn't even work for us any more." Castro said he made the statement "without anger or worry. Now I'm amused to see how (the Atlantic reporter) interpreted it literally" with the aid of translator Julia Sweig. His answer Castro said, "meant exactly the opposite" of what the reporter wrote. Huh?
10 September 2010
CUBA: Fidel Walks Back His Latest Comment On Isla's Broken Economic Model.
M.HERALD/ When it hits the fan, blame the translator. So it goes, apparently, with Fidel Castro. It was all Julia Sweig's fault. The former president and strongman said today that he was "misinterpreted" when a US reporter wrote he said that the "Cuban model doesn't even work for us any more." Castro said he made the statement "without anger or worry. Now I'm amused to see how (the Atlantic reporter) interpreted it literally" with the aid of translator Julia Sweig. His answer Castro said, "meant exactly the opposite" of what the reporter wrote. Huh?
