Here we see the benefits of decades years of communist rule.
Fidel Castro listens to Cuba's chief weather forecaster, Jose Rubiera, as he explains using a state of the art map taped to the wall, how Hurricane Charley is heading toward the Havana area. Television journalist Maribel Puerto looks on, at Cuba's national weather center in Havana.

Castro saying to man, " yes that does look like a cigar but please put it away we are on the air".

JonR