these days he calls himself erasmo and cooks for groups of tourists around the world.e spent 52 years catering to world leaders. he said fidel was like a father to him but he is still much happier with his life now. >> our state is good to us. sometimes it gives us even more than is good for us and that is why people have gotten lazy and aren't working enough. they should be working a lot. for cuba. and do you have to work harder too and think more about your own business? of course. i have to think a lot. but afterwards i can count my essos. it was good with fidel, he says. he is a lovely perp. you have to like him. if you do your work well, you don't have any problems with him. but if not, he also has another side to him. in cuba if you've done well, you're expected to share your good for tunes. he often invites the whole street to dinner. on the menu is a kind of stew being prepared. he calls it socialism with a small s and he quotes a u.s. president of all people. kennedy said don't ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. that's