“Onward to victory! Fatherland or death! We will win!”

– Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro in near unison at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana on April 29, 2005

Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are not the only ones opposed to President Bush’s nominee for U.N. Ambassador, John Bolton. In his annual May Day speech earlier this month, Cuba’s Fidel Castro used the occasion to rail against Bolton. Included in his typically vitriolic diatribe, Castro described Bolton as “irate” and as the “deranged author” of claims regarding Cuba’s weapons of mass destruction program. The Cuban dictator warned that the Bush administration wants to showcase Mr. Bolton’s “cynical mask . . . as the ideal symbol of the current U.S. Administration before the United Nations.”