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Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gives Fidel Castro some tender loving care.

[Image and clues by HIT AND RUN]

El Jefe is neither dead nor dying. But judging from the photos his cabal has been bombarding Cuba’s official media, it seems Castro wants to be called by the new, heartwarming monicker of El Pinko. Or some  other endearing name that could capture in two words the renewed political agenda best-savored in the time-honored slogan of principled political leaders everywhere: “I may sleep while swaddled in clothes steeped in gayness, but I carry a big stick.”

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