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In an article published by The Journal Of Carlos Paz on 10 March 2015, Argentinian writer Pedro Jorge Solans claimed to have uncovered a prophetic quote spoken by Fidel Castro in 1973: Naturally, this rumor was quickly converted to meme form and shared widely via social media: According to Clarin, Argentina's biggest newspaper, Solans was on assignment in Cuba to cover the country's relationship with the United States when he learned of Castro's prophecy during a conversation with his taxi driver, Eduardo de la Torre: Eduardo de la Torre, who currently works as a taxi driver but was a university student in 1973, explained the historic episode. We found no other record of Fidel Castro's having made any such statement, and Solans appeared to be reporting an amusing anecdote, not a news event, in order to convey how hopeless the situation between Cuba and the United States appeared to be in the 1970s. In fact, an article published in the Havana Times in December 2014 noted that this alleged Fidel Castro statement was a common joke in Cuba: Furthermore, as Clarin noted in their account of the story, this fictional quotation from Fidel Castro was meant to be sarcastic (not prophetic): At that time it was impossible to think that Barack Obama, a black man, could become president of the world's most powerful country. [And it] did not seem very feasible that an Argentine [would be] elected Pope when over the centuries most Popes were born in Italy and, more specifically, Rome.
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