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Posted: **August 1st, 2006, 10:08 am**

This just in . . .

Fidel Castro is undergoing internal surgery and so has transferred power temporarily to his brother, Defense Minister Raoul. After the break we will turn to a parade in Miami where people are dancing for joy in the streets . . . .

Stay tuned to CNN, the Capitalist News Network.

Posted: **August 1st, 2006, 1:05 pm**

yeah, I heard the first part of the news you are talking about in the radio this morning before going to school... I hope he have a good recovery. Do you know how many brothers Castro have? sons, daughters?.

Posted: **August 1st, 2006, 4:49 pm**

all loyal comrades in the Revolucion cubano are the sons and daughters of Fidel.

Posted: **August 3rd, 2006, 5:30 pm**

"notwithstanding his very healthy reality"

an interview with a Cuban politician on Fidel's condition.

an excellent bit of (totaly sincere) propaganda.

an excerpt:

"AMY GOODMAN: What is the surgery he underwent, and what is wrong with Fidel Castro?

RICARDO ALARCON: Well, what is wrong with Fidel Castro is that he really works a lot. He has been working his entire life. He's not a head of state that is available only for a few photo opportunities and some ceremonies, and so he really takes his responsibilities and his duties as a mission. That's why he, apart from being substituted provisionally according to the constitution as the head of state, as the head of the power and so on, he also had to designate certain comrades for specific programs, on healthcare area, on education, on energy and so on, programs that he was conducting personally. He is a very rare head of state. He's a head of state that works and works very, very much.

And, of course, if you travel, you go to the eastern Cuba and make two speeches in the same day and have many meetings and so on -- notwithstanding his very healthy reality -- things happen, and at some point he suffered a sort of crisis that probably was most created by the stress and the excessive effort that his body was making. And that's it."

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl? ... 02/1434239

Posted: **August 3rd, 2006, 7:36 pm**

Nobody can beat 'healthy reality.' We can only wish Dubya and Co. along with Congress could have a dose of healthy reality.

Posted: **August 3rd, 2006, 9:29 pm**

no doubt he's a man with a lot of energy. I saw a Birri film/video last summer and in them a cuban mid/aged woman said when someone asked her "what will happen with Cuba when Castro die (no este mas)" in a way that really moved me more or less this: "that won't happen... yes, it can happen but I can't think about it...Castro will be forever with us". Such devotion for a political leader is science fiction for me, and at some point it amazes me.

Posted: **August 4th, 2006, 2:21 pm**

Remember those times when the CIA tried to kill him what with exploding cigars and joybuzzers and whoopie cushions.
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Posted: **August 4th, 2006, 5:37 pm**

exploding cigars?? Sure I've already seen that in some black and white movie...!!! Funny.

Posted: **August 6th, 2006, 7:00 am**

I get the flip side in Tampa
meet a number of anti-Castro Cubanos
as for me?
I say to them
"anybody who wants to be pres for 50 years is half=crazy"
and
"he needa a long vacation"

but if I mentioned a favorable idea,
they'd go bezerk, loco.

He has a stern fear that the capitalist carpetbaggers would invade and return Cuba's spoils to their dominion
an he don't want that

Hopefully the South American evolution will continue and Cuba can evolve with them, a progressve democratic movement. Til then, Cuba will maintain a definate detachment from the capitalists, namely, the USofA and the world bunk

But my Tampa amigos don't like him at all/ He ain't Catholic
He is authoritarian, no doubt, but with his purpose,
the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Posted: **August 6th, 2006, 9:34 am**

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elmun ... 08-06.html

Posted: **August 7th, 2006, 2:10 pm**

"Lo de Cuba es cosa nuestra", Aliverti thoughts. Interesting!.

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elmun ... 08-07.html

Posted: **August 7th, 2006, 4:59 pm**

The dictator, widely believed to be (at the very least) one of the cruelest in the Americas, has gone to a private abode for much needed rest and recovery. Only those closest to him, and the press loyal and dedicated to gov't propaganda, receive carefully guarded information on his physical and mental state.

Meanwhile, protestors in the United States and elsewhere are calling for his resignation. They are demanding that democracy be restored to the country through peaceful regime change, in truly free and fair elections. They are demanding that their civil and human rights be respected, which given the dictator's terrible record in this regard, is an important political issue.

But enough about President Bush. Let's hear what is happening with Fidel Castro . . . .

Reporting from Crawford, Texas, this has been Guy Straighttalk, with the True News Network . . . .

Posted: **August 9th, 2006, 12:46 pm**

Sandra Russo's memories about Cuba (I always enjoy her texts!)

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/contr ... 08-09.html

Posted: **August 9th, 2006, 2:27 pm**

meanwhile

los cubanos estan cantando
viva ché

Posted: **August 10th, 2006, 7:04 pm**

Arcadia, I have read the last Paginas you posted, about Sandra Russo's memories of Cuba, I read it straight through, not bothering to stop and translate the words I didn't know, and I got a good sense of what she meant, the time spent in the "new province", Bahía Blanca, La Nueva Provincia, the interactions with the people, the limits yet freedoms they enjoy.

Am reading my Spanish for Idiots, Español para Idiotas, and am gonna read the stuff as i learn more, in a natural fashion, again
muy bien gracias para Las Paginas!

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