Merkel’s snub and non-snub of Raul Castro
The photo above from the Bulgarian News Agency does not look like a snub of Cuban dictator Raul Castro by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Nonetheless, the internet is abuzz with the German leader's apparent side-step to avoid talking to Cuba's tyrannical leader at another function in Chile.
Here is video of the alleged snub:
And at Enrisco, we have a test to determine just what happened between the two of them (my translation):
Test
Angela Merkel ignored and walked right past Raúl Castro because she confused him with:
A: A debt collector from the IMFB: A waiter who had run out of hors d'oeuvresC: A coat rackD: The (Great) BrotherE: A green traffic lightWhat is clear is that she did not confuse him for a "Yield" or a "School Zone: Reduce Speed" sign.
Seems to me the snub wins. Official diplomatic settings don't offer much wiggle room for snubs. Seems to me Merkel made the most of them to snub Castro. Granted, Pinochet or Somoza would have been tarred and feathered and burned in effigy at such a meeting--assuming they'd even been invited.....unreal
Merkel has to know Ratso is at best a contemptible little fraud.
A powerful German woman is bound to disdain a posturing old Cuban putz who owes everything to nepotism and BS.
Merkel may be overrated and overbearing, but she’s definitely no fraud or poseur. She’s light years away from a painful embarrassment like Cretina Kirchner (aka Evita Kardashian), Argentina’s Fashion-Victim-in-Chief, or that other product of marital connections, Hillary Clinton, aka Faux Feminista--but it’s OK, because, after all "what difference does it make" if you have no dignity? I expect Merkel knows Ratso is just a nasty little rodent who’s spent his ENTIRE life riding his brother’s coattails, and she definitely knows Cuba is an absolute disaster, even worse than Greece (and Greece, of course, has no rich Venezuelan sugar daddy and no profitable pseudo-exiles to compensate for its dysfunction). In other words, she probably wanted to take a bath after her pro forma handshake with the rat-faced creep.