Castro hands power to brother during surgery

CNN ^ | 7/31/06 | CNN

[tdewey10]

Cuban President Fidel Castro is transferring power provisionally to brother Raul while he undergoes an operation, Cuban TV announces.

[w1andsodidwe]

I don't think JFK really fits on that list......

Well I think so. Have you looked into the politics of his relatives who are still basking in his memory? I also remember his presidency. As a 13 year old, I sat up all night the night he was elected waiting for Cook County Ill to finally announce the vote count. Of course they didn't until they knew what the count needed to be. Crooked, crooked, crooked.

[Larry Lucido]

Dennis Castro defected.

Captain Dennis Castro '97, US Air Force Reserves

[cmsgop]

My DU screename is" Indiana Green"

[chilepepper]

DIE YOU BASTARD!!!!

Dang, you beat me to it. Of course, calling Castro a bastard is going a great insult to perfectly respectable bastards the world over...

[4yearlurker]

Wow! Castro's brother is a 4 star.....commie...Cuban..brother? That uniform cracks me up.

[uglybiker]

PING

[NormsRevenge]

Cuban President Fidel Castro gestures as he addresses a crowd of Latin American students gathered in Pedernales, in Holguin province, Cuba, for the anniversary of the attack on the Moncada barracks Wednesday, July 26, 2006. Fidel Castro announced Monday night, July 31, 2006 in a letter read by his secretary live on state television that due to illness he was temporarily relinquishing the presidency to his brother and successor Raul, the defense minister.(AP Photo/ Javier Galeano)

[MikefromOhio]

That wasn't really what I was going for there with the comment.

Communist leaders seem to have this thing that before they are "dead" within their state-controlled media, there seems to be an event kinda like this one, where the leader will have already been dead to about every doctor in the world for quite a while.

FDR and JFK don't really count. It was fairly quick with FDR after his massive stroke and JFK's death was obvious.

[MikefromOhio]

You're going to have to explain.

[muryan]

then you are the guy i argue with about 20 times a day

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

I was about the same age. I remember my 7th grade Social Studies teacher saying that reports of Russian radio playing funeral music meant that somebody important had died.

That is funny because my 7th grade social studies teacher Mr. Rearick was a huge leftist. Absolutely hated reagan. I remember we invaded Grenada that year. He went on a 15 minute tirade and scared half the class. I will never forget it either. He said with absolute 100% conviction "we will have a full fledged nuclear war with the soviet union within 5 years".

[GodGunsGuts]

Looks like Castro will soon be leaving this world and entering the next, where his soul will be judged and the sentence lasts for an eternity. Just the thought of his eternal fate makes me want to take care of my own soul a heck of a lot better.

[NormsRevenge]

Check out this outfit ..

Cuba's President Fidel Castro smiles while speaking to the crowd during an event in Havana in this April 29, 2006 file photo. Castro underwent intestinal surgery on July 31, 2006 and delegated government functions provisionally to his younger brother Raul Castro, the government said in a televised statement signed by the Cuban leader. REUTERS/Claudia Daut/Files (CUBA)

[jennyjenny]

Yeah, the sane one always gets banned.

They're a sick bunch. Let them keep talking. There's an election to win.

[w1andsodidwe]

Here is what I responded to : Didn't Stalin and Mao BOTH have health issues that were NEVER announced before they "died"???

Unless you meant that they died of those health issues. Neither JFK or FDR died of the hidden health issue.

[philo]

Fidel just one week ago with Hugo and little "Che"

[dfwgator]

And think about it, for his funeral, every despot (Ahmadenejad, Chavez, Lil Kim, Lukashenko) will attend the funeral. Gee, wouldn't it just be too bad, if say, a stray bomb would fall right on top of all of them?

[Caramelgal]

Oh Man, why do the Yankee's have to get all the good stuff? The Orioles really need some help too you know...oh never mind, Peter Angelos owns the Orioles and until he sells or to someone not a cheap, arrogant, and incompentent, ambulance chasing lawyer SOB or assumes room temperature like I hope Castro is about to, there is no hope so..The Yankees Win... The Yaaaankees Win (again - :))

At least my brother will be happy!

[Concerto in D]

OK, I'm sooooooooooo not a poet (as you will see); but I'm going to wish myself a Happy Birthday today:

Happy birthday to meeeeeee!
May he no longer beeeeeeee!
Throw him in the seeeeeeea!
Happy birthday to meeeeeee!

(Yes, I know that's wicked. Sigh!)

[MikefromOhio]

You know what I meant.....