Posted on 01/04/2007 12:15:46 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Mexico's 'grand warlock' predicts Castro's death, no border fence in 2007
By THERESA BRAINE | Associated Press January 3, 2007
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Fidel Castro will be dead by May. Presidential candidate-turned-protest leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will fade into obscurity. The anti-immigration wall between the United States and Mexico will not get built.
These and a dozen other predictions are what's in store for 2007, Mexico's self-proclaimed "Grand Warlock" said Wednesday in his annual forecast for the new year.
Antonio Vazquez, better known as the "Brujo Mayor," has made predictions since 1980 on events ranging from politics and the economy to sports and the private lives of celebrities.
Cuban expatriates in Miami might take special interest in Vazquez's forecast that the 80-year-old Castro, who temporarily ceded power to his brother Raul five months ago following emergency surgery for intestinal bleeding, will die in the next four months May. Raul will then develop closer relations to the United States, and eventually the long-banished casinos will be back.
Vazquez also said 2007 will be "100 percent feminine," with women rising to prominence on the world's artistic and political stages.
"But don't be afraid," he added.
The year's feminine nature extends to the environment, he said, explaining that the world must honor Mother Earth in the midst of dangerous global warming.
"We must join hands and unite, please!" he said, his tufted brow furrowed and his flowing salt-and-pepper beard partially obscuring an orange witch stenciled on a black T-shirt.
Regarding the fence that the United States recently approved along its 3,220-kilometer (2,000-mile) southern border, Vazquez predicted that "they are not going to build the wall of shame."
In general, he said, the world will be a better place in 2007, with developed nations helping smaller ones with "many international investments."
Mexico will reap a robust agricultural harvest and increase its oil production amid stable crude prices, he said, contradicting government warnings of depleting reserves.
Lopez Obrador, whose slim loss to Felipe Calderon ignited protests, will lose many of the supporters who once worked for him, Vazquez predicted. But the former presidential candidate, who has refused to accept Calderon's victory, also will start to heed the opinions of others.
"The political war will freeze," said Vazquez.
Last year, the warlock accurately predicted that the ruling National Action Party would again win Mexico's presidency. But he fared worse in sports: His predicted World Cup winner, Germany, fell to eventual champion Italy in the semifinals.
That would not sit well with many in FR.
I've been predicting Castro's death, within two years, for about 5 years now.
One of these days I will be proven right.
Let me take this opportunity to repeat my prediction. Castro has less than two years to go.
Sheesh! Castro looks like he is a sneeze away from a coffin and the Dems won't fund the fence so it dies. The "Warlock" isn't taking any chances.
You don't have to be a "Grand Warlock" to predict that, I think we all know that one!
"One of these days I will be proven right."
If you predict anyone's death, you can rest assured you will be proven right one day!
I, happi the great prognosticator, do predict that democrats will say and do many stupid things in 2007.
"The anti-immigration wall between the United States and Mexico will not get built."
Gee, I must be a prophet too! Brujos and Brujas: another wonderful import from the south.
I believe that with the Democrats in control of Congress that he is right on one of the three. No border fence. I hope that he is right on Castro.
Warlocks are overpowered!
(World of Warcraft players will get that joke..LOL)
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