Perez Hilton, Babalu blog and others are reporting that Castro is dead. This wouldn't be the first time, so we'll not break out the party hats and noisemakers yet.
Such is the problem of getting accurate news in a socialist paradise. At very least, he is very sick and the expectation is that his death is imminent. It could be no more than a janitor seeing one of Castro's doctors shaking his head and spreading the word via the grapevine.
Frankly, it doesn't really matter when he dies--there has already been a power transfer and Castro matters less at this point than does the infrastructure he's left behind. Ultimately I think the celebration is going to be followed with disappointment as nothing substantial changes for Cubans.
Posted by Mick Stockinger on August 24, 2007 10:25 PM
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