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Castro's disappearance fuels new health fears
The Guardian ^
| January 16, 2009
| Rory Carroll
Posted on 01/16/2009 4:38:44 AM PST by Loyalist
Fidel Castro's failure to meet visiting dignitaries or publish his regular newspaper column has fuelled speculation that his health has deteriorated dramatically.
The former president, 82, has not appeared on TV or in print in recent weeks despite expectations that he would participate in the celebrations for the Cuban revolution's 50th anniversary on 1 January.
Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, an ally and unofficial spokesman, fed the rumour-mill by saying Castro would not surface in public again. "That Fidel in uniform, who walked the streets and towns at daybreak, embracing the people, will not return," Chavez said on TV last Sunday. "That will remain a memory."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: castro; cuba; fidel; fidelcastro; murderoustyrant
If Castro is finally going to buy it, would he at least have the decency to do so before 12:00 EST on January 20? Don't give Obama the credit of being the President that Castro couldn't outlast.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:38:44 AM PST
by
Loyalist
To: Loyalist
He checked into the Michael Moore memorial hospital in
Havana!
2
posted on
01/16/2009 4:41:30 AM PST
by
Dr. Ursus
To: Loyalist
steve jobs takes a leave from his job
and fidel takes a leave from his job.
which company is higher performing?
3
posted on
01/16/2009 4:45:47 AM PST
by
ken21
(people die and you never hear from them again.)
To: Loyalist
It seems a little early in the year to be planting vegetables.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:46:20 AM PST
by
G.Mason
(If you surrender your right to own a gun, you surrender your right to your life)
To: Loyalist
It would, however, be wonderful if Castro upstaged and out-newsed our Caligula.
5
posted on
01/16/2009 4:47:00 AM PST
by
Jemian
(PAM of JT ~~ If Roe v. Wade would have been 10 years earlier, Nobama would NEVER have been born)
To: Loyalist; ken21; Dr. Ursus
"Castro's disappearance fuels new health fears"
My only fear about that old despot's health is that he's still alive.
6
posted on
01/16/2009 4:47:25 AM PST
by
Enterprise
(No Presidency for illegal aliens from Kenya.)
To: Loyalist
Strange - I have no fear when I think of Castro taking the big nap.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:47:46 AM PST
by
WayneM
(Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.)
To: Loyalist
Fears or happy dances?
Then again this is from The Guardian....
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:48:04 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
To: Enterprise
true.
how many of these dry runs have we been through?
i’m tired of hearing about fidel.
say, who gets that $900,000,000 that forbes mag says fidel has squirred away?
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:50:20 AM PST
by
ken21
(people die and you never hear from them again.)
To: Loyalist
I feel elation and not fear.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:50:21 AM PST
by
monocle
To: Loyalist
“Castro’s disappearance fuels new health fears”
Fears?
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:50:38 AM PST
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: Loyalist
“Health fears”????
No fears here. I hope he’s D-E-A-D dead.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:50:46 AM PST
by
angkor
("All you could hope for ...in the world's most august deliberative body." - Baldwin on Franken)
To: ken21
The Swiss bankers probably get it all.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:55:12 AM PST
by
Enterprise
(No Presidency for illegal aliens from Kenya.)
To: angkor; nuconvert; monocle; ken21; mewzilla; WayneM
Castro's disappearance fuels new health fears room temperature hopes. (There, fixed it)
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:58:45 AM PST
by
Enterprise
(No Presidency for illegal aliens from Kenya.)
To: Enterprise
He left the country seeking good health care1
To: Dr. Ursus
Let him go to Canada then.He’s as good as dead there.
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posted on
01/16/2009 6:00:32 AM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: Loyalist
If he dies while 0bama is Present, we will have to send someone sad to the funeral.
To: Loyalist
He is not dead he just went in to have his embalming fluid changed.
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posted on
01/16/2009 6:48:05 AM PST
by
The Great RJ
("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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