“Thought he died years ago.”

That’s the remark my mother made this weekend when the topic of Fidel Castro was brought up for some reason or another and the conversation rapidly moved on to some other subject.

Castro should have died years ago, of course, but that hasn’t happened. If he had any dignity, he’d at least have gone into retirement. That’s why a new post from David A. Einhorn has such resonance.

Einhorn recently came back from a trip to Cuba and was not impressed with what he saw and heard. Castro, like Hugo Chavez, was constantly breaking into the television sets of all Cuba’s viewers and rambling on in a senile way as if to desperately try to tell Cubans he still mattered, and that his words were pearls.

The more Castro did it, the worse he got. Einhorn notes that it’s quite a different thing to hear a news snippet of some kind of remark Castro made, and to experience these constant television natterings from the old foof.

His valuable description of the dictator in his dotage can be read here.

Hat tip: The Real Cuba