Assuming Fidel Castro does finally die in 2010, how long will his brother Raul stick around?
Total Voters: 71
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The rumors are bubbling up yet again that Fidel Castro has finally kicked el cubo. What do you think?
Total Voters: 109
Loading ...Pictures and video of Fidel Castro were released recently, in order to make it appear as though he's recovering. Do you think this means they're getting ready to announce Fidel Castro's death soon
Total Voters: 24
Loading ...Pictures and video of Fidel Castro were released recently, in order to make it appear as though he's recovering. Do you think this means they're getting ready to announce Fidel Castro's death soon
Total Voters: 24
Loading ...Fidel Castro turns another year older and Cuba (and Cubans) still suffer. Hopefully, not for longer.
Does the fact that Raul Castro replaced Fidel Castro cronies in Cuba's communist government mean that Fidel is finally dead?
Total Voters: 60
Loading ...Does the fact that Raul Castro replaced Fidel Castro cronies in Cuba's communist government mean that Fidel is finally dead?
Total Voters: 60
Loading ...Raul Castro just gave the big boot to a bunch of his older brother’s cronies in the Cuban “government,” AP is reporting. Via Yahoo! News:
President Raul Castro abruptly ousted some of Cuba’s most powerful officials Monday, remaking the government in the biggest shakeup since he took over from his ailing brother Fidel Castro a year ago. The changes replaced some key Fidel loyalists, including the longtime foreign minister, with men closer to Raul.
Rut ro! Could this mean Raul is gearing up to make THE big announcement that Fidel is dead? Vicki Huddleston, formerly the highest ranking U.S. diplomat in Cuba, asks:
“This would seem to indicate this is a consolidation of Raul, which then makes you think, `What about Fidel?’”
“What about Fidel” indeed.
Castro’s cadaver spoke out and for possibly the first time in his life–or more accurately, after his life–he actually said something that was true:
“Our future is inseparable from what happens next Sunday, the day of the (Venezuelan) referendum on the constitutional amendment,” Castro wrote in an editorial published on the Cuba Debate Web site.
He’s right. The constitutional amendment in question would change Venezuela’s current constitution to allow Castro’s Mini-Me–Hugo Chavez to seek more than two terms (which is two terms too many).
So… how come Cuba’s future is insufferable “inseparable” from the Venezuelan vote? Well, aside from the obvious, that Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro are buddies, there are more material concerns at hand:
Communist Cuba receives about 90,000 barrels of Venezuelan oil a day in exchange for services (read: slavery) from thousands of Cuban professionals, including doctors, agricultural specialists and athletic trainers that Castro has sent to live in Venezuela since their agreement started in 2000.
A hat tip to Babalu Blog for posting this story.
Here’s the photo of Fidel Castro with Argentina’s president Cristina Fernandez, which is a part of our February ’09 Castro Death Watch poll question:
Due to some weird glitch we can’t post a photo and a poll question in the same post. Oh well.
