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Castro hands power to brother during surgery
CNN ^ | 7/31/06 | CNN

Posted on 07/31/2006 6:33:36 PM PDT by tdewey10

Cuban President Fidel Castro is transferring power provisionally to brother Raul while he undergoes an operation, Cuban TV announces.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Cuba; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: castro; castrodeath; cuba; deathwatch; fidel; geopolitics; havana; ill; intestinalcrisis; latinamerica; raul; raulcastro
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To: Spktyr
Rat poison causes internal bleeding.

Hopefully this is a really painful condition!

161 posted on 07/31/2006 7:02:43 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (((172 * 3.141592653589793238462) / 180) * 10 = 30.0196631)
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To: airborne

I heard he had to have Danny Glover's lips removed from his butt.


162 posted on 07/31/2006 7:02:45 PM PDT by cjmae (Sanity was not equally distributed)
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To: mkmensinger

...or perhaps chavez was a little rough that last time.


163 posted on 07/31/2006 7:02:45 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: tdewey10
Good evening.

Raul has done a lot of killing for Fidel. He may be too crazy for the Cuban military.

We can only hope.

Michael Frazier
164 posted on 07/31/2006 7:02:45 PM PDT by brazzaville (no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
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To: All
from E medicine

Gastrointestinal bleeding: Upper GI bleeding originates in the first part of the GI tract—the esophagus, stomach, or duodenum (first part of the intestine). Bleeding can come from ingestion of caustic poisons or stomach cancer.

So basically...good news for all!

165 posted on 07/31/2006 7:03:28 PM PDT by txroadkill
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Oh, let's send Cindy Sheehag, and make them keep her. She can flop down on his grave and clutch the grass between her fingers . ..

I guess I'm showing my age, but back when the Soviets were losing Politburo members right and left, the regular programming would go off the air and they would play solemn music for hours before they finally worked themselves up to the announcement of somebody's death . . .

166 posted on 07/31/2006 7:03:44 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: JustDoItAlways
Our best hope for Cuba was that Fidel suddenly dies

Maybe he has and this is a ruse to legitimize the new government.

167 posted on 07/31/2006 7:04:20 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Rte66

Dr Dean...Dr Howard Dean.....


168 posted on 07/31/2006 7:04:59 PM PDT by clintonh8r (To err is human; to forgive, divine. Neither is Marine Corps policy.)
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To: Chi-townChief
"Are they finally trying to get his head out of his ass???"

Nope, this is what happened. Zidane got him.

169 posted on 07/31/2006 7:05:24 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: txroadkill
Well, there are a lot of relatively innocuous reasons for intestinal bleeding too.

But as Dorothy Parker once said when told somebody was ill, "I hope it's nothing trivial."

170 posted on 07/31/2006 7:05:24 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: The Bronze Titan
Good point. What little I've found on the subject suggests that if things get tough, Raoul can't count on military support even a slight amount compared to his brother. I hear the Cuban military doesn't like him.
171 posted on 07/31/2006 7:05:39 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: dfwgator; al baby

I wouldn't want to be in certain parts of Miami tonight if he does kick the bucket.


172 posted on 07/31/2006 7:05:51 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: cmsgop
The Weekend at Bernies begins...
173 posted on 07/31/2006 7:06:06 PM PDT by right-wingin_It
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To: Sonny M
The line on Raoul is that he is weaker than Fidel and also a drunk.
174 posted on 07/31/2006 7:06:08 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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To: P-Marlowe
Yes..give the old bas$#@d plenty of water.
175 posted on 07/31/2006 7:06:34 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (12th district Freeper.)
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To: AnAmericanMother

But surgery on the intestine at 80? I doubt he'll last a week.


176 posted on 07/31/2006 7:06:36 PM PDT by NinoFan
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To: AnAmericanMother

I remember in the early 80's. Granted I was 11 or 12. But I remember when Breshnev, chernenko and whatever the other guys name was. Actually i think he was between Breshnev and Chernenko. Andropov? Perhaps. Any way I remember that it seemd the leader was dead for a t least a solid day or 2 before we knew.


177 posted on 07/31/2006 7:07:40 PM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: Calpernia

Would be funny and ironic if one of those doctors was the only one who could have saved Fido.


178 posted on 07/31/2006 7:08:18 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: MindBender26
if the term "accident of health" is idiomatic for anything?

I don't know in Cuba, but in Spain it does not mean anything in particular.

BTW, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo is announcing that Fidel will have to spend several weeks resting, away from public view. How will we know when to celebrate?

179 posted on 07/31/2006 7:08:33 PM PDT by Former Fetus (fetuses are 100% pro-life, they just don't vote yet!)
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant

The DU Thread for good measurehttp://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2427094


180 posted on 07/31/2006 7:08:43 PM PDT by cmsgop ( President Mahmud Ahmadinejad Must Purify Himself in The Waters of Lake Minnetonka)
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