Rumours of Fidel Castro's death dispelled by interview

[dipsydoodle]

Source: The Guardian

Photographs of a frail but apparently well Fidel Castro were posted on a Cuban government website on Thursday, following recent rumours that the 85-year-old former president was gravely ill or had died.

Castro, who had been out of sight for two months, was shown in what looked to be his Havana home chatting with Venezuelan state television commentator Mario Silva, who said he had come to Cuba to put to rest false reports about Castro's health.

"Those who are at this moment enjoying and believing that Comandante Fidel had a stroke, I'm sorry to inform you that he is alive and kicking," Silva said in a video of his La Hojilla TV programme posted on the Cubadebate website along with the Castro pictures.

The programme supports the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and regularly vilifies his critics.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/09/rumours-fidel-castro-death-dispelled

[Demeter]

1. Do Castro Haters think things will magically change when he dies?

Fidel has outlived most of his original opponents and many of the second generation. Cuba is more stable than most Western democracies, politically and economically.

[naaman fletcher]

2. LOL.

First of all, of course a young guy outlasts people who were older than him. Cuba stable economically? LMFAO.

[Fool Count]

5. He didn't say that it was stable, only that it was more stable than most

Western democracies. That sounds about right, given the economic state those democracies find themselves in now.

[naaman fletcher]

6. even that is questionable,

as the Cuban government just laid off 500,000 people.

[Fool Count]

12. At least those 500,000 won't get thrown out of their free apartments

and will continue to be fed and clothed while they are looking for other employment. Which cannot be said
about many millions already unemployed in US and EU and many more millions about to join them when global
capitalism collapses into a heap of ashes. That's their fate which is truly questionable.

[RZM]

11. That kind of thing does actually happen

Spain after Franco, Portugal after Salazar, Yugoslavia after Tito, the 'Thaw' after Stalin (of course in that case system remained more or less intact, but some things did change).

It can take a little while, but states do often change course after the death of a long-serving leader. I think Cuba 15 years after the death of Fidel might be a very different place.

[Pab Sungenis]

3. Schrodinger's Dictator.

[bigworld]

4. Death rumors have been swirling for 30 years... one day they will be right!

[UTUSN]

7. KOLCHAK the Night Stalker: Zombie episode.

Darren McGAVIN crawling into the back of the hearse over the zombie's body to sew salt into his mouth: Most chilling ever!1

[ObaMania]

8. Agreed.

The creepiest and best episode of the entire series.

[UTUSN]

9. Whew!1 Thought I was going to be flamed for associating Fidel with the zombie

But as I have learned the very hard way, it's never too late for vociferous flaming!1

[LaPera]

10. Fidel is alive 53 years after overthrow of the slimy right-wing American corporate puppet Batista !

YES! Fuck all you republican right-wing assholes - Castro is still alive and the greedy pig Batista is long dead as are most all of the Cuban Castro haters who came to the U.S. when Castro kicked Batista military' ass and Batista fled - LOL!

Love live Fidel Castro!

And fuck you!