Havana - Cuban President Fidel Castro praised California Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger's muscles but wondered how much brain power the former Mr Universe has.
"To judge from the photographs, he has a lot of muscle, but they have not tested him to see how much muscle he has in the brain," the bearded revolutionary quipped during a five-hour speech on Friday evening closing a Latin American social sciences conference.
"He way well have more force in the arms than in the brain," Castro, 77, said of the former Austrian body builder who went from B-movie actor to Hollywood star and governor of the richest US state.
"At least he has the merit of having done a lot of exercise," added the Cuban leader, who played basketball and baseball when he was younger.
Anti-Castro exiles in Miami have called on California's future Republican governor not to trade with the communist-run island, where Castro has been in power since a 1959 guerrilla-led revolution.
Earlier this year a Californian firm became the first American company to sell seafood to Cuba in four decades, under a 2000 law that eased U.S. trade sanctions to allow sales of agricultural products.
/
Castro Says Schwarzenegger is All Muscle
