(Fidel Castro) Still Dead

The Wall Street Journal ^ | December 5, 2006 | James Taranto

[Zakeet]

Cuba Democracia y Vida, a Sweden-based exile site, claims that Fidel Castro is dead, attributing the information to, as Google's rough translation puts it, "a source near the Cuban regime of total credibility." Havana has been holding back the announcement, the story says, while awaiting the results of the election in Venezuela, where Hugo Chavez, a younger, less dead version of Castro, is leading his challenger by 62% to 37%.

The Associated Press, however, reports that "Cuba's Communist newspaper on Tuesday published a message reportedly from ailing leader Fidel Castro congratulating Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on his weekend re-election victory":

"The victory was resounding, crushing and without parallel in the history of our America," read the brief message published in the online edition of the Communist Party daily Granma.

Without parallel? Is Castro admitting that his own "elections"--whose results are even more "resounding" by virtue of their 100% victory margins--are a sham?

[Zakeet]

About 2/3 down the page.

Recall that the nice dictator missed his birthday parade (which was already postponed due to his health); snaps of the great leader showing him reading the day's headlines are obviously photoshopped; brother Raul wants to talk to the evil Yankees.

Any way you look at it, things are not looking good for the great enlightened leader -- assuming he's not already dead.

[dfwgator]

Weekend at Fidel's.

[gaijin]

HE'S DEAD, JIM...!

[beaversmom]

It's just like Yasser Arafat all over again.

[al baby]

[Two Kids' Dad]

He's gone to meet Generalisimo Francisco Franco in the great beyond.

[Loyalist]

"a source near the Cuban regime of total credibility"

I thought credibility and proximity to the Castro regime had an inverse relationship.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

They won't announce his death until his heirs finish fighting over his '63 VW Beetle.

[al baby]

he gave that to Eleians dad already

[operation clinton cleanup]

If I didn't see James Earl on CSPAN this weekend, I would swear he was the "Bernie" in this photo.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Yeah, the black one.....

[unkus]

I thought it was a '57 Chevie.

[piasa]

They won't announce his death until his heirs finish fighting over his '63 VW Beetle.

You'd think John Kerry, Tom Harkin and Jimmy Carter would be satisfied with the cars they already own.

[piasa]

"He's dead, Jimmuh."

[Two Kids' Dad]

No, Kurt Russell wrecked the '57 Chevy in the movie "Captain Ron". Shame to see the nicest car in all of Cuba get ruined. Oh well, they can still auction off the Edsel.

"I'll bid seven chickens and a sow."

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

I have no idea if this photo is legit or not. But it sure is interesting...

It can be found at:

http://noticierocuba.blogspot.com/

[unkus]

I'll bid my rice cooker and my electricity ration.

[alarm rider]

Well hopefully, in the timeless words of Monty Python:

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it's passed on. This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot"

Wonder if the Cuban communists in charge are scared of what might happen if the world finds out that Fidel is a "late parrott"

[Kozak]

"In tonight's news Fidel is dead, and Fransisco Franco is still dead"...

[brewcrew]

'e's pinin' for the fjords.