Castro 'no longer bed-ridden' (According to Hugo Chavez)

Australia Herald Sun ^ | 8/6/06 | Australia Herald Sun

[wagglebee]

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez today said Cuban leader Fidel Castro was now able to leave his bed and hold conversations following stomach surgery that required him to temporarily hand over power to his brother.

"This morning I learned that he's doing well, that he's already standing up out of bed, he's talking - more than he should, because he talks a lot," said Mr Chavez during a conversation with Bolivian President Evo Morales broadcast on television.

"He has sent us regards."

Venezuelan government sources yesterday said Mr Chavez does not have a trip to Cuba on his agenda despite media rumours that he was planning to visit Castro, a close Chavez ally whose country has benefited from preferential sales of Venezuelan crude oil.

Castro was reported yesterday to be able to eat and sit up.

Mr Chavez cancelled a scheduled trip to Bolivia to visit the opening of Bolivia's constituent assembly, charged with rewriting the country's constitution.

The Cuban government last week announced that Castro, 79, had handed control of the government temporarily to his younger brother Raul.

Neither of the two leaders has made a public appearance since the announcement.

Castro has served as a political role model for both Mr Morales and Mr Chavez, who has become the most visible face of a group of increasingly influential leftist Latin American leaders.

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Venezuelan government sources yesterday said Mr Chavez does not have a trip to Cuba on his agenda despite media rumours that he was planning to visit Castro, a close Chavez ally whose country has benefited from preferential sales of Venezuelan crude oil.

My guess is that Chavez will try to take out Raul teh moment Fidel is dead.

[AdvisorB]

I think the dictator of that tropical gulag checked out last week.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

"He's dead, Raoul, you second-rate schmendrick."

[do the dhue]

Hell doesn't want him either.

[Argus]

"No longer bed-ridden" could just as easily mean dead. And good riddance.

[bybybill]

Hugo,keep flapping your gums, Castro`s illness could strike you next.

[johnny7]

“He's dead Jim.”

[elcid1970]

SHOW YOURSELF, BUTCHER!!!

[dfwgator]

"El es muerto, Jim."

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

He's no longer bedridden because he is slab-ridden.

[AdvisorB]

Yes, I know...

[Spruce]

He's dead, Jim.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

E's got lovely plumage, too...

[pyx]

Perhaps Cuban communist bureaucrats are waiting unil Castro's birthday to announce things.

[shield]

bttt

[HitmanLV]

Reminds me of the time I saw Tony Bennett in Atlantic City several years back, and he got a cheap pop from the crowd saying how he has just spoken to Sinatra a short while back and that he is doing fine and sounded strong, and to not beleive the press regarding his declining health.

Frank passed away a few weeks later.

[RightWhale]

Standing beside the bed with IV drip stand. Next he will take short walks pushing his IV drip stand as he goes.

[tet68]

Hugo Chavez today related information
concerning Fidel Castro.

"His doctor, DR. Feliz Ortega-Ortiz-Ortega from the esteemed Brigade 33 Rural Health Cooperative and Collective Farm, has him up and moving around now.
Castro played some golf, only nine holes though and shot a 18, not bad for an aging totalitarian dictator eh.
Afterwards, Fidel had a light repast, a Cohiba and is now
resting peacefully."

[mazack]

And after he's taking his short walks with his IV drip stand, he'll get back to the tripping with the IV drip stand.

[RightWhale]

They'll scold him if he goes a little heavy on the demand feeder, and he will have to stay in hospital until he doesn't need it any more.