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Monday, June 30, 2003

Miami D-J's claim they fooled Castro

Miami-<a href=www.wane.com>News Channel 15-AP -- Two radio show hosts who tricked Venezuela's president into thinking he was talking to Cuba's Fidel Castro now claim they've pulled the same prank -- in reverse. The two D-J's at Miami's W-X-D-J F-M say they tricked Castro into thinking he was talking to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.

Joe Ferrero and Enrique Santos say they were able to do so by playing disjointed parts of a conversation Chavez had with them earlier this year.

After a few moments of pleasantries between Chavez on tape and the man identified as Castro, one of the announcers comes back on the phone line.

The man on the other end catches on to the prank after he is called an assassin and the conversation disintegrates into him denouncing the caller with a stream of obscenities.

Cuban officials had no comment while a Venezuelan spokesman calls the act "irresponsible and unethical."

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