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Thread ID: 7492 | Posts: 12 | Started: 2003-06-20
2003-06-20 01:42 | User Profile
The Miami Herald Jan. 07, 2003
No Caller ID? Chávez falls for Castro prank 'call'
BY CHRISTINA HOAG
Two Miami radio-show hosts known for playing outrageous pranks on the air scored perhaps the most outlandish one of them all Monday:
They called Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and got him to believe he was talking to Fidel Castro.
''We still can't believe it,'' said Enrique Santos, co-host of El Vacilón de la Mañana, (The Morning Hijinks), on WXDJ-FM El Zol 95.7, a Spanish-language salsa station. "He fell for it.''
The joke was part of a segment called Fidel Te Llama or ''Fidel's Calling You,'' in which Santos and co-host, Joe Ferrero, call various people and play snippets of a controversial conversation between Castro and Mexican President Vicente Fox that Castro made public in 2001.
Hearing Castro's distinctive rasp, the unsuspecting recipients of the call usually believe it is the comandante himself on the phone. After a few minutes of a disjointed conversation in which the same nonsensical sentence fragments are repeated, the victims get suspicious.
Santos and Ferrero then drop the bombshell that it is a Miami radio station calling.
On Monday, Chávez, who counts Castro as his strongest ally and touts Cuba's communist system as a role model, fell victim to El Vacilón.
The irreverent DJs said they started calling Miraflores Palace, the Venezuelan White House, on Friday. About 8 a.m. Monday, using a Cuban-accented woman posing as a Havana operator, they got through to an aide who identified himself as Lt. Arcia.
The secretary said Castro was on the line and wanted to speak to Chávez. Castro's taped voice can be heard in the background, leading the unwitting officer to believe the dictator was really on the line.
PRIVATE LINE
The officer offered to have Chávez call Castro back, but the secretary explained that the Cuban was in a secret location and could not be phoned. The officer gave the radio station the number of Chávez's private line.
''Hello Fidel!'' booms Chávez.
''Did you receive my letter?'' asks Castro.
''Of course I received it,'' replies Chávez. ''I spoke with Germán.'' (Germán Sánchez Otero is the Cuban ambassador to Venezuela, but The Herald could not determine if Chávez was referring to him. A spokesman at Miraflores Palace could not be reached for comment.)
''I'm all set to collaborate with you,'' Castro says.
As the nonsequiturs start, El Vacilón fakes trouble on the line to disguise the rejoinders that don't make sense.
''Yes, brother, how's it going?'' Chávez asks.
''I'll do what you're asking me to,'' Castro replies.
''I don't understand,'' a bewildered Chávez says.
''But I'm going to be harmed, I confess to you,'' Castro says.
Silence from Chávez. Castro goes on: ``Everything's set for Tuesday.''
''Everything's set for Tuesday,'' Chávez repeats, obviously befuddled. ``I don't understand.''
Santos then breaks in and announces they are calling from Miami.
Complete silence from Chávez.
A TIRADE
Santos launches into a tirade: ''Terrorist! Animal! Murderer!'' plus a few choice four-letter nouns. ``You're finishing off the Venezuelan people!''
Santos then hangs up.
Apparently stunned with their success, the duo, both second-generation Cuban Americans, lost their radio composure. They broke into banter in English and put on two CDs at once.
Ferrero said the import of what they had done started to hit them during the dialogue with Chávez.
''We didn't know what to do,'' he said. ``This was a conversation between two presidents. We're waiting for the men in black to show up.''
The station's switchboard lit up with a flood of callers, including the owner, Raúl Alarcón, whom Santos described as ''not very happy.'' Alarcón is chairman of the station's Miami-based parent company, Spanish Broadcasting System.
Alarcón did not return phone calls from The Herald.
Spanish-language media in the United States and the Venezuelan press, which largely opposes Chávez, soon got hold of the story, and Ferrero, 34, and Santos, 28, were barraged with calls.
NOT FIRST TIME
This isn't the first time the radio personalities have ruffled feathers. Last April Fool's Day, they announced an upcoming concert with Julio and Enrique Iglesias and that the first people in line at AmericanAirlines Arena would get free tickets.
After the stadium was inundated with fans, the pair received a three-day suspension -- with pay.
Miami's Spanish-language radio stations often play outlandish practical jokes on the air, and Castro's Cuba is one of their favorite targets.
Hispanic Broadcasting Corp.'s WRTO Salsa 98.3 FM has a segment dubbed Calls to Cuba in which the morning-drive hosts, known as Los Fonomemecos, call businesses and agencies on the island with some ridiculous request or inquiry.
In a recent segment, a DJ posing as a high-ranking Cuban military officer called a Havana funeral home to request a coffin -- for Castro. The mortician burst into sobs.
Chávez, known for his folksy manner, isn't above playing jokes himself.
For the past Day of the Innocents, Latin Americans' version of April Fool's Day that is celebrated Dec. 28, he announced on the radio that he was tired and going to resign. He then changed his tone. ''Ha ha! You fell for it!'' he laughed.
On Monday, however, the joke was on him.
2003-06-20 05:17 | User Profile
Fidel Castro: human worm, crypto/Marrano Jew [see Wolzek's Timeline at VNN, 1959]. Yet, America helped this worm come to power.... Oy.
It's a Jewish world, you just live in it... :angry: :angry:
2003-06-20 05:26 | User Profile
South florida needs to be cleansed of these spanish speaking dirt bags. I don't care if some of them are racially European, they have turned a large part of MY country into a third world ces pool in which I am a foreigner. A lot of white nationalists bang on about how many cubans etc. are white. You won't meet a real white american refugee from miami who gives a damn. These people have chosen to form an impermeable community which has displaced our people. Functionally, they are a seperate and hostile race.
2003-06-20 05:39 | User Profile
As some one totally suportive Iberian nationalists of various kinds the notion that Cubans (with very few exceptions) are racially European is absurd. Latin America (a few exceptions like Agentina and Chile) are third world dung heaps inhabited by people of primarily non European backgrounds. This is clear to any racially aware white that has traveled in the region for a few weeks.
2003-06-20 13:11 | User Profile
My wife is White Cuban, originally from Miami. Large segments of the Cubans in Miami are White, Euro-Spanish descendents who fled jew-Castro's insane Socialist gulag in the early 60's. If they displaced anyone, it was the large Jewish population that was letting Miami devolve into a backwater for many years. I would have to say that the White Cubans have made the largest contribution in building up Miami, but the Mariel Boat lift in 1980 brought over tens of thousands of mulatto Cubans and other degenerate rejects that heavily and terribly tainted the image of Miami and Cubans in general. Nowadays Miami is a multiracial pest hole just like any other big city in Amerikwa....although there are several stunningly beautiful areas and neighborhoods in Miami. Yes, the Cubans can be quite klannish, but that's not to say they're not friendly or classy people. Actually, most Cubans I've met in Miami think very much along the lines of WN's, especially on the jewish question, and also consider themselves pro-White. Maybe the rest of the White populace can learn something from the Cuban's klannish practices. Fidel Castro is a stinking piece of :dung: who should be tortured until he dies a hideous death....and that's just for the vast amounts of wealth he stole from the White Cubans and the Americans as well. Fidel should be bled to death and his eyes gouged out for what he's done to the people who are prisoner in that hell-hole-of-hell-holes Cuba.
2003-06-20 13:37 | User Profile
Yes, there is a big difference; enough to be cognizant of. And no, I'm not related to any, by marriage or anything else.
IMO US governmental policy toward Cuba smacks of its policies toward the old Soviet Union and other communist countries, oppose 'em on the outside but be responsible for their creation and continued existence on the inside.
2003-06-20 15:36 | User Profile
*Originally posted by W.R.I.T.O.S@Jun 19 2003, 23:26 * ** South florida needs to be cleansed of these spanish speaking dirt bags. I don't care if some of them are racially European, they have turned a large part of MY country into a third world ces pool in which I am a foreigner. A lot of white nationalists bang on about how many cubans etc. are white. You won't meet a real white american refugee from miami who gives a damn. These people have chosen to form an impermeable community which has displaced our people. Functionally, they are a seperate and hostile race. **
Borders are man-made... only blood matters. According to your "soil" definition of nation, you shouldn't be living in the US... you shouldád be back in Europe, and the US should be redskin territory,
2003-06-22 15:47 | User Profile
*Originally posted by triskelion@Jun 20 2003, 07:39 * ** As some one totally suportive Iberian nationalists of various kinds the notion that Cubans (with very few exceptions) are racially European is absurd. Latin America (a few exceptions like Agentina and Chile) are third world dung heaps inhabited by people of primarily non European backgrounds. This is clear to any racially aware white that has traveled in the region for a few weeks. **
I agree but, Chile don't have more whites than Cuba, in Chile the whites are just the 20% of total population, and the most of the population is mestizo and Amerindian.
Argentina (70%) and Uruguay (80%) are the only places in Latin America where the whites are in majority.
Regards.
2003-06-22 17:39 | User Profile
AY - Yes, a "short visit" to Miami, where you'll be confronted with a lot of trash of several ethnicities, will indeed give one the impression that there is no (admitted) minority of white, European-descended Cubans. They do exist though, probably equivalent in percentage to independent thinkers in the western world. :D And while they are usually anti-Castro, it is incorrect to assume that they reflexively sentimentalize over the Batista days, which you accurately describe. Naturally some among them are also corrupt and have been brought to the fore by Uncle Shmuel to assist in the great anti-communist pretense of the US government.
You will not see many of these white Cubans in south Florida unless you know where to look, as they are as anxious to remain indoors and away from their high profile "countrymen" as are white Anglos. Pointing out that they exist, however, isn't the same thing as pretending they have any more influence than any of the other non-preferred among us.
2003-06-23 00:20 | User Profile
In a shor visit to Miami (or to any "coast city" in the US) I'd feel like kicking out of the country most of the whites there too.... sons of the MTV generation.... :angry: The problem with the cubans is that many of them started "mafias", and drug cartels. Those who are white and honest should be allowed to stay (I know... they would be a few only..) and the rest... let's ask for Israel "tolerance" and send them there :D :naughty: By the way, "AntiYuppie" what the heck do you mean with "not EVEN a Pinochet"?
2003-06-23 00:33 | User Profile
AntiYuppie --
See Wolzek's Terror Timeline at VNN, circa 1959 entry; it gives a URL.
2003-06-23 01:33 | User Profile
Actually, thanks to the "chicago boys", chilean economy went up. The "free market" economy is the answer to marxism.