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

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

So says Alberto Mueller’s blog (sorry, the site is Spanish so we’re translating the quotes below):
News from sources near Fidel Castro’s children are (sic) privately saying their father, the Cuban dictator, is in a state of maximum seriousness and with enormous respiratory difficulties.
Mueller goes on to say that some sources near Castro […]

it IS nepotism:
Cuba’s ailing leader Fidel Castro has defended naming his brother Raul to stand in for him last year, saying no one in the communist country’s national assembly saw it as nepotism.
Of course no one in Cuba’s national disassembly sees Raul Castro taking over for brother Fidel as nepotism. Fidel himself told them […]

Babalu Blog has posted an editorial cartoon that says it all.

The news comes, oh, about 48 years too late, but it nevertheless is there. Fidel Castro dropped hints he might be retiring soon, according to Reuters:
“My elemental duty is not to hold on to positions and less to obstruct the path of younger people,” the 80-year-old Castro said in a letter read on […]

In case you missed it, Fidel Castro’s hand-puppet Hugo Chavez got punked at the ballot box by Venezuelans who voted against a proposal that would’ve made him dictator president dictator nearly for life. The proposal would’ve also given a “full-steam ahead” to a number of socialist measures.
The proposal was narrowly beaten. Surprisingly, Chavez […]

Give every Cuban a copy of this book. (WARNING: if you do follow the link, be prepared to gag at the fawning praise given Fidel Castro by the useful idiot reviewing the book).