OK, so I guess we’ll have to believe you, being as you are a “minister” that has no “inside” information. Putz.
Cuban minister says Castro not dying
Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:42PM EDTHAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban leader Fidel Castro is not at death’s door and rumors in Miami of his demise are wishful thinking, Cuban Culture Minister Abel Prieto said on Wednesday.
Prieto said he had no inside information on Castro’s medical condition, but deduced from the 81-year-old leader’s regular essays and columns that he is not dying.
“Nobody who was agonizing could be doing these analyses and reflections about day-to-day reality,” he told reporters. “He is aware of everything that happens, he is reading the wires, he is analyzing and evaluating.”
Castro has not appeared in public for more than a year since surgery for an intestinal disorder forced him to hand over power to his brother Raul Castro, relinquishing control for the first time since his 1959 revolution. Details of Castro’s health have not leaked from his water-tight inner circle.
Cubans last saw him in a pre-taped television interview broadcast on June 5 in which he appeared to be stronger.
Since March, Castro has reasserted his presence in Cuba through newspaper columns also read out fully on television.
In a 4,256-word essay published by the Communist Party daily Granma on Wednesday, Castro claimed the U.S. government had misinformed Americans and the world about 9/11, echoing conspiracy theories about the terror attacks six years ago.
His prolonged absence has fueled death rumors in Miami, a bastion of anti-Castro sentiment among the large Cuban emigre community which eagerly awaits the demise of a man they see as a tyrant who turned Cuba into a communist state.
“I think they are people who confound their wishes with reality, they are obsessed with this,” Prieto said.
Cuban officials say Castro, who underwent a series of intestinal operations, is recovering. But they no longer insist that he will resume office.
Prieto, Cuba’s only long-haired minister and a member of the Communist Party’s powerful executive Politburo, said he thought Castro continues “recovering favorably.”
He said he was convinced that an “overwhelming majority” of Cubans want Castro to continue leading the country as president of the Council of State.
The National Assembly must elect the 31-member Council of State at the start of its next session in March. Any changes to its leadership would take place at that time.
Particularly amusing was this quote:
“Nobody who was agonizing could be doing these analyses and reflections about day-to-day reality,” he told reporters. “He is aware of everything that happens, he is reading the wires, he is analyzing and evaluating.”
Mr. Prieto: no one in Cuba believes Fidel is writing those vaunted “reflections.” What’s your point?
All that hair is going to his head. Sorry for the bad comedy.
Me thinks they protest too much. I still say he’s dead.
of course he’s not dying…he’s already dead. those reflections are obtained through Lala the medium from pogolotti who channels his spirit straight from the bowels of hell.
“He is aware of everything that happens, he is reading the wires, he is analyzing and evaluating.”
Ziva, I noted that too. Particularly odd right after:
Prieto said he had no inside information on Castro’s medical condition…
Insulting. This is the minister of propaganda, right?
. . . and at the “Intransigente” Restaurant (posted here a couple of days ago). . . Coke & Rum is now served (listed on the menu)under Abel Prieto’s 100% Proof “Mentirita” . . . LOL!!!
I wish you well 🙂 Melek
“We are all manufacturers – some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses.” ~ Unknown
HE’S DEAD, JIM
Oye Val……Mr. Prieto es pariente tuyo? You are the minister of truth y el otro el Ministro de Mentiras.
On an other note….Fred Thomposon will be at Versailles on Calle Ocho Friday and doors open @ 8:25!
If he is NOT dead (and I believe he is), now everyone knows what the Cuban people have known for a long time: his mind is gone.