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

…being reported as news? Yep, when it has to do with Castro’s Cuba, right is wrong, yes is no, left is right and the obvious is newsworthy:
Cuba’s parliament named Raul Castro president on Sunday, ending nearly 50 years of rule by his brother Fidel but leaving the island’s communist system unshaken.
In a surprise […]

Make of this what you will, but I found it interesting. Fark blogger Drew Curtis comes to his own conclusion as to why Fidel Castro’s “resignation” was announced at 3AM and not at a more convenient time:
The only valid reason to make an announcement like that at 3am was that the government was […]

A big “Thanks” to Babalu Blog for pointing this one out:
A Florida congresswoman asked the Justice Department yesterday to bring charges against resigning Cuban leader Fidel Castro for the deaths of four U.S. rescue workers who were killed while looking for Cuban migrants stranded at sea.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., said earlier attempts to prosecute […]

File this one in the “a half century late, a few billion dollars, thousands executed and imprisoned and millions of Cubans tormented short” category: Fidel Castro has resigned as dictator of Cuba:
An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba’s president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term […]

McCain would kick Fidel Castro’s defective ass:

Castro, McCain spar over Cuban torture in Vietnam
HAVANA, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro took on front-running U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday, accusing him of lying about Cubans torturing American prisoners of war in Vietnam.
At a campaign stop in Miami last month, […]

“When should we stop pickling the Bearded One in formaldehyde?”
Interim president Raul Castro has officially convened the National Assembly for a Feb. 24 meeting to elect Cuba’s next president, amid speculation ailing Fidel Castro might not be its choice for the first time in almost five decades.

Too bad it wasn’t with a two-by-four:
Fidel Castro, who has not appeared in public since he was sidelined by stomach surgery 18 months ago, got 98.3 percent of the votes cast in the district he represents in Santiago, Cuba’s second city.
But acting President Raul Castro won 99.4 percent of the ballots cast in his […]

“Vote may hasten Castro reign’s end:”
‘My basic duty is not to cling to office and even less to obstruct the path of younger people, but to pass on the experiences and ideas whose modest worth stems from the exceptional era in which I have lived,” Castro said in a letter to the Cuban people in […]

The world’s biggest source of hot air is cooling down:
Fidel Castro said Wednesday he is not yet healthy enough to speak to Cuba’s masses in person and can’t campaign for Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
“I am not physically able to speak directly to the citizens of the municipality where I was nominated for our elections […]

Brazil President Heads To Cuba, Hopes To See ‘Friend’ Castro