“I love Fidel Castro … I respect Fidel Castro” for surviving “when a lot of people have wanted to kill him,” said the Venezuelan-born Ozzie Guillen, who became a U.S. citizen in 2006.
Fidel Castro
Poor Ozzie Guillen. If only he were a Hollywood celebrity, he could be basking in the admiration of colleagues for publicly professing his affection for Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro.
Instead, full of apologies and regret for what he describes as the worst episode of his life, the Marlins manager had to return to Miami yesterday with his tail between his legs ahead of the announcement today of his five-game suspension.
Clearly worried about their relationship with Miami’s nearly million-strong, baseball-loving Cuban-American community – which knows Castro all too well – the Marlins suspended Guillen for remarks he made to Time Magazine.
“I love Fidel Castro … I respect Fidel Castro” for surviving “when a lot of people have wanted to kill him,” said the Venezuelan-born Guillen, who became a U.S. citizen in 2006.
While Guillen faces a call to be fired from Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, some of America’s biggest names in entertainment seem to have suffered no ill effects professionally for praising Castro after being wined and dined in Havana.
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