Southeast across the Caribbean, in oil-rich, poverty-ridden Venezuela, Cuba's Fidel Castro finds plenty of friends among Communists, among dissident far-left extremists of President Romulo Betancourt's Democratic Action (AD) and among leaders of the Republican Democratic Union (URD). Although a member of Betancourt's three-party coalition, URD is opportunistically trying to build up support for future elections by hoisting Castro's banner. URD's most vociferous Castro supporter has been Betancourt's Foreign Minister, Ignacio Luis Arcaya.
Red Hero, No Job. A fortnight ago in Costa Rica, Arcaya was Castro's warmest non-Cuban supporter at the meeting...
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