The US has been a bit funny about Cuba every since Castro took over from Batista, the one who started well enough but ended badly, mired in crime and vice. Notwithstanding, it seems that both President Carter and President Castro were honorary pall bearers at the 2000 (state?) funeral of late Prime Minister Trudeau in La Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal.
How did the Secret Service cope? Did they feel the need for a full body scan of the Cuban President? Did the Cubans harbour analogous sentiments?
PS 1: checking at http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/trudeaus-funeral/, I find that another of the honorary pall bearers was Leonard Cohen, whom I had not known to be a Montrollan. He is also an alumnus of Westmount High, as my mother was.
PS 2: (much later) I have only just twigged that Carter was no longer president at the time. Confused by the custom whereby former presidents retain the presidential courtesy title.
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