Livin La Vida Loca

Castro called Biscet “a little crazy man.”

On Monday, President Bush awarded Biscet the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one the United States’ two top honors for a civilian (the other is the Congressional Gold Medal). Winnie and Biscet’s stepson, Yan Morejon, planned to attend the ceremony.

It’s an honor that will cement Biscet’s growing role as the face of Cuba’s jailed dissidents, even though the Afro-Cuban doctor is far from a household name in his own country, where the media are under strict state control.

“My mother told him that, unlike us, he had the greatest friend of all: He had Fidel.”