From Prensa-Latina (aka Straight from the Raul's mouth).
I think Castro's Dead, Jim.
http://www.prensa-latina.com/article.asp?ID={A9C48BCD-CDA2-43CC-8512-B77A1288C505})#uage=ES
Google Translate.
Fidel Castro delegates functions to the front of Cuba for health reasons Havana, 31 jul (PL) the president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, delegated today, provisionally, their responsibilities to the front of the State, the government, the Revolutionary Armed Forces (Officers' Club of Revolutionary Armed Forces) and Partido Comunista (PCC), due to health breaks. In a proclamation directed to the nation, the leader of the Revolution explained that he also yielded of provisional way his obligations to the front of state programs of national and international character on education, health and saving of energy. The functions like Commander-in-Chief of the Officers' Club of Revolutionary Armed Forces, president of the Council of State and Ministers and first secretary of the PCC assumed the first vice-president, army commander Raul Castro Ruz, minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and second secretary of the Party. In agreement with the official notice, read by Carlos Valenciaga, member of the Council of State and head of office of the revolutionary leader, its health was put under an extreme stress and it broke, causing an acute intestinal crisis to him with maintained sangramiento. Between the reasons of his affections, the agent chief executive indicated “the enormous effort made” to visit recently more than one week the Argentine city of Cordova and to participate in the meeting of The Common Market of Sur (MERCOSUR). Also, he alluded to to his presence in the closing of the summit of the towns in the historical University of Cordova and the visit to Altagracia, city where the Heroic Guerrilla lived, Ernesto Che Guevara, in its childhood. Together with this, its return to the country, anniversary of the assault attended immediately the commemoration of the 53 the quarters Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, the 26 of 1953 July, in the provinces (Eastern) of Granma and Holguín, “days and nights of continuous work, without hardly sleeping gave rise to that my health, that has resisted all the tests, was put under an extreme stress and broke”, needs the proclamation. “This caused an acute intestinal crisis to me with maintained sangramiento that forced to me to face a complicated surgical operation”, Fidel Castro added, when indicating that all the details consist in x-rays, endoscopías and filmed materials. The operation forces it to remain several weeks of rest moved away of its responsibilities and positions, and “as our country is threatened in circumstances like these by the government of the United States”, it made the referred decisions. In addition, it also delegated provisonalmente, in the members of the Political Bureau of the PCC Jose Ramon Balaguer (minister of Public Health), Jose Ramon Machado Ventura and Estéban Bow Hernandez, its functions like main impeller of the national and international programs of Public Health and Education, respectively. Equal procedure adopted with the member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Executive Committee of the Cabinet, Carlos Lage, with respect to the national program of the power revolution in Cuba and the collaboration with other countries in that scope. “The corresponding bottoms for these three programs, Health, Power Education and, will have to continue being managed and prioritized since I have come doing personally”, it successfully obtained the Chief of State. Lage, the minister president of the Central bank of Cuba, Francisco Soberón, and the chancellor, Felipe the Perez Roque, who accompanied to Fidel Castro in those managements, will be in charge of such resources and will have to constitute a commission for that objective. The leader of the Revolution demanded “the greater attention of the State and the Cuban nation” to the accomplishment of the summit of agent chief executives of the countries nonAligned, to be made in next Havana from the 11 to the 16 of September, in order that sesione “with the maximum of brilliance in the decided date”. Also, he requested to pospone for next the 2 of December, when 50 years of the disembarkation of the Yacht Granma, headed by him, the commemoration of their 80 birthdays are marked, “that so generously thousands of personalities decided to celebrate next the 13 of August”. “I request to the Central Committee of the Party and to the National Assembly of the Popular Power (Parliament) the firmest support to this proclamation”, emphasized. Fidel Castro said not to lodge the smaller doubt of than the town and the Revolution will fight until the last drop of blood to defend these and other ideas and measures that are necessary to safeguard this historical process. “Imperialism never will be able to squash to Cuba, the battle of ideas will follow ahead”, emphasized the agent chief executive, when giving alive to the Mother country, the Revolution and the Socialism. The proclamation, signed by the agent chief executive of its fist and letter to 18:22, local time, concludes with the emblematic slogan of Until the Victory Always. rc/ucl
Some historians believe Buddha died of a mesenteric infarction or thrombosis of the main artery supplying the middle section of the small intestine with blood.
Severe abdominal pain is triggered by a large meal, which requires a higher flow of blood to the digestive tract. As the obstruction persists, the bowel is deprived of its blood supply, which subsequently leads to gangrene of the intestinal tract. The intestinal wall ruptures and results in profuse bleeding into the intestinal tract followed by bloody diarrhea.
Intestine contents ooze into the peritoneal cavity, causing peritonitis or inflammation of the abdominal walls. This is is a potentially lethal condition which, if it is not corrected by immediate surgery, will result in septic shock from the infiltration of bacterial toxins into the blood stream.
With surgery, antibiotics and rest, recovery is possible.
On the other hand, he could have been poisoned...
Buddha's last meal was marinated pork.