[NYTr] Cuban minister says Fidel not dying (no, he's talking up a storm)
 
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:47:49 -0500 (CDT)

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[Yet again, rumors are revived of Fidel's imminent demise. The major
impetus this time is apparently Fidel's latest column, in which he
calls into question the Bush Regime's Tale of 9/11. (That legend is so
full of holes, after all, that believing it all is practically
impossible for anyone who doesn't also swallow the notion of "progress"
and other Bush lies about Iraq.  Maybe Colin Powell believes it. 
See previous items and the starred paragraph below. -NY Transfer]

Related: 9/12/2007

Fidel Castro: The Empire and its Lies
https://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070910/068299.html

Bush Regime's Tale of 9/11 - When Fidel Speaks, the World Listens
https://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070910/068313.html

Reuters via Yahoo - Sep 12, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070912/us_nm/cuba_castro_dc

Cuban minister says Castro not dying

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro is not at death's door and
rumors in Miami of his demise are wishful thinking, Cuban Culture
Minister Abel Prieto said on Wednesday.

Prieto said he had no inside information on Castro's medical condition,
but deduced from the 81-year-old leader's regular essays and columns
that he is not dying.

"Nobody who was agonizing could be doing these analyses and reflections
about day-to-day reality," he told reporters. "He is aware of
everything that happens, he is reading the wires, he is analyzing and
evaluating."

Castro has not appeared in public for more than a year since surgery
for an intestinal disorder forced him to hand over power to his brother
Raul Castro, relinquishing control for the first time since his 1959
revolution. Details of Castro's health have not leaked from his
water-tight inner circle.

Cubans last saw him in a pre-taped television interview broadcast on
June 5 in which he appeared to be stronger.

Since March, Castro has reasserted his presence in Cuba through
newspaper columns also read out fully on television.

***** In a 4,256-word essay published by the Communist Party daily
Granma on Wednesday, Castro claimed the U.S. government had misinformed
Americans and the world about 9/11, echoing conspiracy theories about
the terror attacks six years ago. *****

His prolonged absence has fueled death rumors in Miami, a bastion of
anti-Castro sentiment among the large Cuban emigre community which
eagerly awaits the demise of a man they see as a tyrant who turned Cuba
into a communist state.

"I think they are people who confound their wishes with reality, they
are obsessed with this," Prieto said.

Cuban officials say Castro, who underwent a series of intestinal
operations, is recovering. But they no longer insist that he will
resume office.

Prieto, Cuba's only long-haired minister and a member of the Communist
Party's powerful executive Politburo, said he thought Castro continues
"recovering favorably."

He said he was convinced that an "overwhelming majority" of Cubans want
Castro to continue leading the country as president of the Council of
State.

The National Assembly must elect the 31-member Council of State at the
start of its next session in March. Any changes to its leadership would
take place at that time.

 
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