OMG... This is too funny! Fidel Castro on American Radio!

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MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- Cuban President Fidel Castro or someone sounding very much like him fell for a trap laid by Miami radio pranksters Tuesday, thinking he was talking on the phone to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and abusing the callers when he realized he was being duped.

The radio station, Spanish-language station El Zol 95.7, delightedly and repeatedly broadcast the recording from its popular program "El Vacilon de la Manana" (Morning Joker) in a city that is home to many anti-Castro exiles.

There was no immediate way of telling whether it really was Castro on the line, but it seemed to be him.

A presenter posing as a Chavez aide wound his way through a series of Cuban official switchboards saying Chavez needed to speak to Castro because he had lost a suitcase with sensitive documents on a recent trip both leaders made to Argentina.

Finally, Castro came on the line and listened to the story of the suitcase, apparently taken in by real phrases by Chavez cobbled together by the radio station.

The Chavez "aide" asked Castro if he agreed to help by getting his security detail hunt down the suitcase and the Cuban leader said, "I absolutely agree."

"Do you agree with the s--- on the island [Cuba], killer?" the Chavez "aide" asked, quickly adding, "You fell for it" and announcing he was on the Miami radio program.

"What did I fall for, you s---?" said Castro. "What did I fall for, bastard?," he said.

In January, Chavez was the butt of a similar prank when another Miami radio station bluffed its way through the switchboard at the presidential palace in Caracas.

After coaxing Chavez into a disjointed conversation by playing recordings of Castro talking, the disc jockeys rained expletive-laced insults on the Venezuelan president.