Ailing Castro delegates power to brother

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060801/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_castro ^

[republican4ever]

HAVANA - Fidel Castro temporarily relinquished his presidential powers to his brother Raul on Monday night and told Cubans that he had undergone surgery.

The Cuban leader said he had suffered intestinal bleeding, apparently due to stress from recent public appearances in Argentina and Cuba, according to the letter read live on television by his secretary, Carlos Valenciaga.

[republican4ever]

Castro is undergoing surgery. Apparently a major operation. I personally believe the SOB is dead. The government won't anounce it until there is no other choice, as is the custom in that kind of regime.

[Hilltop]

Castro hugs Chavez, maybe a little Sangria, and now Fidel is bleeding out his *ss.

Strange.

[rovenstinez]

I think it is cancer, and I think he is headed to a hospital in Houston, Tx...just my thought.

[gaijin]

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[theymakemesick]

"I think it is cancer, and I think he is headed to a hospital in Houston, Tx...just my thought."

No point in him leaving home, everyone knows that Cuba has the finest health care on the planet.

[ModelBreaker]

The Cuban leader said he had suffered intestinal bleeding, apparently due to stress from recent public appearances in Argentina and Cuba

It's the big C.

[Bommer]

Castro is undergoing surgery.

Hope you die a painful death you SOB!

[sine_nomine]

There was an old thug named Fidel,
Awaiting his own place in Hell,
With blood in his stool,
And a face full of drool,
Said Fidel, "No problem! The next thug's Raoul."

[sine_nomine]

You are technically correct, so let us say I was writing free verse instead of a limerick.

There once was a pundit from Upland
Who mastered the art of one-upman,
Took No Name to task
And bothered to ask
Why line five did not rhyme with the first one.

[theDentist]

There, there Fidel. Time to lie down for your dirt nap. Don't worry, Raul will be joining you soon enough. He'll likely get "2 in the cap" shortly after your sleep begins.

[e_castillo]

"I personally believe the SOB is dead."

Lets hope so. I wonder how things will go after he dies.