Cuba says communists in control (Has Fidel el gusano bought the collective ???)

Yahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ^ | Thu Aug 3, 9:16 AM ET | Anthony Boadle

[Enterprise]

Cuba's Communist Party tried to quell fears of chaos on Thursday following the temporary surrender of power life by the ailing Fidel Castro.

[TXBubba]

released a message on Tuesday saying he did not know if he would recover.

Hmmmm....

[BenLurkin]

Viva Cuba libre!

[Rocky]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1050933/posts

Remembering The Dead -- January 3, 1959 "The Revolution Begins Now"

[wideawake]

The fact that neither Raul nor Fidel have publicly appeared or spoken in days is fascinating.

I suspect that the "false alarm" of Fidel's demise a few months ago was a test balloon to see whether or not stability could be maintained in the days following a death announcement.

[reagan_fanatic]

Installing a 75 year-old as your new President is just delaying the inevitable. Communism will fall in Cuba - the only question is when.

[monkeywrench]

I think if fidel is dead, we'd see jimmy carter flying down there to help raul shore up his position. Most of the bad actors on the world stage (hugo, ahmanutjob, china)have an interest in cuba. They'll have to do an awful lot of organizing to keep their commie dream together.

[BubbaBobTX]

I think he has been dead for several weeks now. The commies know things will get ugly once it is confirmed.

[Jeff Chandler]

It looks like we got him, now send the Marines!

[RegulatorCountry]

Why does this bring Al Haig to mind, after he learned of the assassination attempt upon President Reagan?

[Chi-townChief]

That struck me as well but at least Haig was a name attached to being in charge. In Cuba, you just have an anonymous group of commie jefes.

[RegulatorCountry]

I was thinking it might be an undertone of panic, because they seem incapable of grasping just how peculiar their statements might sound to others (much like Haig).

[andy58-in-nh]

When dictators come to power, they often pose as the legitimate voice of the people they intend to rule.

[AmericaUnited]

Maybe the resistance had a "sleeper" nurse positioned and she popped both Fidel and Raul...

[kempo]

I'll bet his in a coma. If he is they will keep him on life support until his flesh rots of the bone. The reason no one has taken charge in a public forum is because the Cubans don't know how to function without him.

[Rocky]

Good work! Save for future use.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Isn't it odd how the Proletariat never seems to outgrow its need for a dictatorship?

LOL! Karl Marx thought that governments somehow wither away over time if totalitarian regimes were in place... warped logic!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

At his age the most likely cause of intestinal bleeding is colon cancer (although you'd think he'd be one of the few in Cuba who got routine screening.)

But.. but.. Cuba has the best health system in the world. < /sarcasm >

[Irish_Thatcherite]

When dictators come to power, they often pose as the legitimate voice of the people they intend to rule.

I would love to edit in Gerry Adams and other IRA terrorists into that pic!!

[RegulatorCountry]

"But.. but.. Cuba has the best health system in the world."

Back in the mid-'80's, I used to sit in a bar near a university in NC, and argue with a bunch of Communist Workers Party 'bots about just that ... when pressed, all they could say was that it's "free." Unlike anything else on that godforsaken island, I guess.