I've heard that he's weird. Is that true?
Yes, he is very weird.
I, for one, still don't understand why, for example, and this is only one in a long list of strange things about Castro, in the hottest days of the Cuban summer, while everybody around him is wearing a cotton, short-sleeved, light shirt with an open collar, Castro wears an olive green, long-sleeved heavy shirt, and a heavy, long-sleeved bush jacket on top, buttoned up to his collar, and he doesn't seem to feel the heat or be sweating at all. I have looked for an explanation of this strange thing, but apparently most of Castro's biographers and scholars who have written about him have ignored or failed to notice the weird, but ever-present fact, and the very few who have noticed it had mistakenly believed that Castro's jacket hides a bulletproof vest. Take a look at photographs of Castro appearing daily in the Cuban press and you will find that what I am telling is a verifiable fact.
Castro's behavior in that sense is very unusual, and in strong contrast with what Cubans do in the hot summer days, when everybody wears very light clothes. Anybody in Cuba who would try to wear these type of clothing in the heat of the summer very soon will collapse of overheating. But Castro seems totally unaffected by the heat. Therefore, if nobody in Cuba, and I mean nobody, displays such type of behavior, I can say, based on the evidence, that Fidel Castro is not like the rest of the Cubans. Obviously, Fidel Castro is different--and not only because he is rich.
