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Editor's Note: Camilo Egaña is the Camilo driver . The opinions expressed in this article are exclusive to the author.
(CNN Spanish) - Donald Trump has reminded me of Fidel Castro.
The president of the United States has tested strength with meteorologists. As in his day the Cuban ruler did.
About Dorian, Trump made his own forecast. The experts rectified it and now insists that Alabama was targeted by the hurricane.
Trump presented alleged evidence to underpin his version and now apologizes to meteorologists, journalists and comedians.
In Trump's "logic", those he considers fake news propagators have wanted to discredit him.
And he presented his "evidence": a map that, according to him, showed the original trajectory of the system. Actually, someone had added a circle with a black marker - by the way, very similar to the ones he uses - and within that black circle was Alabama.
The Washington Post reports that it was Trump himself who altered the map.
Alabama has always been and will be located on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In the opposite direction to Dorian's trajectory.
But unable to give in, Trump took another map, dated August 28, from the agency that controls water management in Florida and where Alabama would fall into the Dorian danger zone.
But in that same map it is clarified that the alerts of the National Hurricane Center cancel it.
Let's see, more clearly: when Trump made his forecast on September 1, the experts, who really know what they are talking about, had ruled out that Alabama was in danger.
Even so, Trump called John Roberts, the Fox News correspondent - the TV he sees - to the Oval Office to defend his forecast.
"He insisted that it is unfair to say that Alabama was never threatened by the cyclone," the journalist said.
Fidel Castro dared with everything too. He was able to pontificate on cows, coffee, stem cells, hydroponic banana crops ... and hurricanes.
As soon as one of those cyclones approached the island, Fidel entered a kind of frenzy: he appeared in the Forecast Center of the Institute of Meteorology or in the National General Staff of Civil Defense. And always before the television cameras.
And on one occasion, he asked on television José Rubiera, the most respected and well-known meteorologist in the country and a Doctor of Geographical Sciences, if there was any possibility that a certain hurricane would deviate and not touch Cuba.
The man said no, Fidel insisted and the meteorologist stammered something like "it would be good, yes, commander, but ..."
You know what? Shortly after, a high pressure zone diverted the hurricane.
The flattest people began talking about divine powers and the official press - also very flat - made headlines like these:
"Fidel Castro: a giant that challenged hurricanes" or "Fidel, the number one meteorologist."
Hurricane Dorian