From Redstate:
Redstate is hearing from congressional sources that it has become apparent that the statement yesterday came after the surgery. This may indicate that Castro is in grave condition or is already dead.
So let’s get this straight, yesterday’s statement by the Cuban government came after the surgery and not before. This is an interesting development indeed.
Sounding more and more like the way the Soviets did things. Who signed the power transferring document? raul?
Told CB we need to measure Fidel for the caja china.
This announcement and document signing took place AFTER Castro’s surgery!? WOW! That puts a whole new spin on everything!
the way the story was reported in brasil, it was said that the statement was post surgery.. one of the commentators presented a timeline, let me look it up..
Im on a television station and listening to a live feed of CNN of Diaz Balart. Will keep you posted
how about emailing the Granma..they’ll jump all over the story-
correo@granma.cip.cu
it has to do with the time the statement is (supposedly) signed, and when the story was released..
Press conference just ended. Nothing new. They basically presented the “YO NO” campaign to the media and talked about the possibilities after Fidel dies(if he is not already dead). They also called out for a civil movement inside Cuba already and gave wings to Cubans in Cuba to start movilizing and heading to the streets.
Lincoln Diaz, Iliana and others are going tomorrow morning to meet with different people in DC. Nothing really new out of this press ocnference.
It did my heart good to see all those people out there on Bird Road, to feel their joy and happiness along with my own. I was so proud to see my own children, born and raised in the USA take to the streets with me, dance, hold their fists in the air yelling “Libertadâ€. There was a moment when my 13 year sat on her six foot tall cousin’s shoulders and I video taped her high above the crowd, fist in the air, yelling, libertad, libertad, libertad * there was a huge Cuban flag being waved right behind her. What an awesome moment * I wondered when did this girl come along and replace my little girl. When did she learn about Cuba, about being Cuban, about the injustices Fidel and his henchmen have committed against their own people. She was really listening. All this time, she was listening and learning and holding Cuba and our plight close to her heart. She can claim to be a rocker all she wants, but when it counts, when it really matters – turns out she’s Cuban to the core. There’s probably going to be a small window of opportunity for the Cuban people to do something to change the course of their lives, I hope and pray that they will be brave enough to sieze the day.
I agree with Paxety; this is strangely reminiscent of how the old Soviet Union “transitioned”.
Once they start playing somber, classical music on all of the radio stations, fidel would have officially kicked the bucket…
bush statement:
On Monday, before Castro’s illness was announced, President Bush was in Miami and spoke of the island’s future.
“If Fidel Castro were to move on because of natural causes, we’ve got a plan in place to help the people of Cuba understand there’s a better way than the system in which they’ve been living under,” he told WAQI- AM Radio Mambi, a Spanish-language radio station. “No one knows when Fidel Castro will move on. In my judgment, that’s the work of the Almighty.”
Bush should have said:
“The Devil is waiting for one of his servants to come home”
…and now for the interesting complications…
Tropical Storm Chris has a decent chance of being a hurricane by this weekend, and one of the models shows it rolling right over southern Cuba.
I’m learning Spanish, and my current lesson asks me what I would do if I were the following people.
Oprah, Dan Rather, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos, y Fidel Castro. I’m really tempted to just put “Die” for that last one….
A co-worker of mine heard indirectly from someone in the Cuban government that fidel died yesterday at 3 PM…which if true is consistent with Redstate’s source.
Its also great timing for Andy Garcia and the dvd release of “The Lost City” next week….whatever company that is distributing it, if they have a lick of business sense will play off this story and run some commericals promoting this film that should’ve had a wide theaterical release
NOW THAT THE END IS NEAR, HOW ABOUT BRINGING UP THE SUBJECT OF CUBA AS A POSSIBLE 51ST STATE TO THE US. WHILE SURFING THE NET, I HAVE COME ACROSS COMMENTS WHERE TOP CUBAN-AMERICAN POLITICIANS WHO SHY AWAY FROM THE SUBJECT. I HAVE TALKED TO OTHER CONSERVATIVE CUBAN AMERICANS THAT FEEL CUBA SHOULD BE A SOVEIRGN NATION. I BELIEVE THAT THE BEST FUTURE FOR CUBA WOULD BE TO MAKE IT THE 51ST STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ANYTHING SHORT OF THIS WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD US DOWN THE SAME ROAD. MACHO MAN GOVERMENT. I.E. CITY OF HIALEAH, CITY OF MIAMI, MIAMI-DADE COUNTY…. “I HAVE SEEN THE ENEMY AND IT IS US” POGO
As gabby as the average person is, it is incredible that no one actually knows if Castro is dead or if alive, what condition he is in. He must be in a hospital somewhere, and there is someone in that hospital that knows and will tell if given a chance.
Can someone get in contact with that person? I can hardly wait to start celebrating.
I am thinking about buying a place on the Malecon and redoing it. Then a big party.
Fidel is being mocked on eBay. For your enjoyment — http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220012769739
EL 51
NO THANK YOU. We Cubans are not so ignorant that we cannot rebuild and run Cuba. Cuba is to be a sovereign country. Why do you have a problem with Cuba’s independence? I am Cuban and proud of it.
This is one of my greatest fears. I would fight to the death against this. Cuba is for the Cubans.
Not for the opportunists.
Pototo is right. Cuba does not need to become a US state. It needs to finally be its own for the first time in its history.
I am also proud to be Cuban but, as the old expression goes, ” Those who do not learn from history are condemmed to repeat it” Since the independence of Cuba from Spain, over two thirds of the time, Cuba has been under military rule. I would also give my life for Cuba but not if an elite class of individuals would gain political control to their gain and the rest of the cuban population’s demise. If what I have read is correct, everybody was in favor of Castro and the revolution. Only after declaring himself a Communist did people revolt, again. As a 51st State we would certainly lose some sovereignty but we would never again fall under a communist, socialist or egalitarian regime. You do not have to go along with it, just think about it. Is that not what we want to sow in a new Cuba. Freedom.