Fidel Castro, Cuba, castro death watch, havana, habana

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Finish this sentence: A year without Fidel Castro is like a year without…

What’s the difference? As long as his brother Raul is there, nothing will change.

All of the above.

hemorroids

…Satan.

…one of the world’s worst dictators.

…Stalin.

…darkness.

a noose around your neck

bitchs n ho’s

Aquafina..cause you’ll just grab […]

That’s the headline of a brief item by Brazil correspondent Jonathan Wheatley of the Financial Times. Here’s the money quote:
It has been clear since last summer when the president’s younger brother, Raúl, smoothly took over the reins of power on a temporary basis that the institutions of Cuban communism were strong enough to survive Mr […]

Tomorrow (Monday) a big court date is set for the custody battle between the foster, and would be adoptive parents of a young Cuban girl in Miami, and her father from Cuba:
Nearly eight years after the battle over young Elian Gonzalez divided this city, another Cuban child has become the center of a bitter […]

Amid all the rumors of Castro’s death, a ghostwritten essay has appeared in the Juventud Rebelde (Rebellious Youth) newspaper in Cuba, supposedly just hot off the moribund caudillo’s typewriter:
Castro’s essay, the latest in dozens of ”Reflections of the Commander in Chief” columns he has published several times a week since late March, was […]

You have to wonder. All these Castroites coming out of the woodwork, denying Fidel’s death. The latest: Castro’s Mini-Me, Hugo Chavez:
“Fidel Castro will never die!”
Castro’s friend and ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent greetings to Cuba’s ailing leader during an address Saturday to thousands of supporters.
“For those who want Fidel to die, they […]

…like a windvane during a hurricane, with news that Fidel Castro is really, finally dead. Spanish- (and English-) language radio and TV, newspaper websites, blogs, even Drudge. Everyone’s talking about it–but acknowledging it as a rumor at this point.
I myself saw little activity in Miami (related to celebrations, or anything similar), […]

The poll question is…
Finish this sentence: A year without Fidel Castro is like a year without…

Sending two Cuban boxers back to prison over a technicality instead of letting them find asylum in another country, such as Germany, where they had applied for such:
Two Cuban boxers who abandoned the Pan American Games were deported from Brazil because of problems with their visas and not political pressure from Cuba, Brazil’s justice minister […]

Yet he remains quiet about his health… possibly because his body temperature is now the same as room temperature?
A new newspaper column signed by Fidel Castro and published Thursday again attacks U.S. policies toward the island but does not address his health.
Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque told journalists in Brazil on Thursday that the 81-year-old […]

Anti-corruption laws toughened in Cuba
Acting leader Raúl Castro has ordered harsher penalties for public officials who break labor rules.
Ratcheting up his fight against corruption and mismanagement in Cuba, interim leader Raúl Castro has signed a decree requiring tough, swift and long-lasting punishment for public officials who violate labor rules.
If slavery is illegal under this new […]