developing story from maimi

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

http://babalublog.com/

it was also reported on another radio station in miami but the story from there is that it wont be made official until they are 100% sure that they have the national guard and riot cops all in place

the part from the report in this guys blog about the coast guard being on high alert i know is true.......my cousin is in the CG and is stationed down there

this has been going on for a week or so already and there was no sight or him or message from him on his birthday.......i think hes been dead for a while and the cuban govt is trying to conceal it for as long as possible

i think you will probably hear about it from the US before the cubans

[imported_juggernaut28]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlueWahooChambor</div><div class="ubbcode-body">according to a couple sources in the media fidel castro has gone tits up </div></div>

Hasn't Castro's brother been in charge since Fidel got sick? If his brother is anything like him then there is not going to be much difference even if Castro is dead.

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

the story from some of the cubans i know is that his brother is actually much more moderate and may actually be wanting to work with the US because of the money it would generate

[imported_trumpet1988]

Don't like him. Not really sad about his death--if it is true. However I am not celebrating either.

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

im not cuban......but ill probably head to miami just for the biggest party in the last 150 years

[imported_mega]

just remember man, no blocky.

[imported_elp6n]

Rumors that Castro has died excite Miami

Updated: 9:00 p.m. ET Aug 24, 2007
MIAMI - The official word in Cuba is that Fidel Castro is still very much alive "? but you'd never know that on the streets of Miami.

Premature rumors of Castro's death are a staple in this heavily Cuban-exile city. But their frequency has intensified in recent days after his 81st birthday came and went Aug. 13 with neither pictures, letters nor recordings from him.

Friday, the rumors were pushed into overdrive by a meeting of local officials to go over their plans for when Castro really dies and a road closure in the Florida Keys that was actually due to a police standoff.

A circular game ensued with radio stations reporting the rumors, citing TV stations, which cited the rumors on the street.

Sandra Avila, an executive at a design firm in Miami's Coconut Grove neighborhood, said clients and vendors called all day asking about the rumors.

"I've heard the rumors before, but there's a different feeling this time, like this time it's real,"? she said.

The rumor mill took off a year ago when the Cuban leader announced he would turn power over to his brother Raul because of an intestinal illness. Since then, Castro, who has ruled Cuba for nearly 48 years, has not been seen in public.

Even celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, a Cuban-American who normally deals with Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, jumped into the fray Friday, writing that sources were saying the Miami police were poised to announce Castro's death.

Never mind the question of why the Miami police department and not the Havana government or, at least, the U.S. State Department would let the world know.

Little information on condition
In Cuba, officials remained tightlipped about Castro's condition.

"Fidel is doing very well and is disciplined in his recovery process,"? Cuban foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque told reporters in Brazil on Thursday. Perez Roque insisted Castro maintains "permanent"? contact with members of the government party in Cuba.

On official Cuban television, there was no hint of trouble Friday. A rerun of the hit NBC series "Friends"? played late in the afternoon.

To steal a title from Nobel prize-winning Colombian author and Castro friend, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the last two weeks have been a nonstop "Chronicle of a Death Foretold."?

"For us it's not so much the waiting for the death of a person,"? said Joanna Burgos, spokeswoman for the Miami-based Raices of Esperanza, a nonpartisan youth group that advocates for a free and democratic Cuba.

"It's much more the waiting for the opportunity for young people on the island to have a chance to live freely, and hopefully that might give them an open door to do so."?

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

everybody i know down there seems to think hes dead for at least a week already.......the cubans wont say anything because they have too much to lose.......so until its actually confirmed and announced by DC we wont hear anything

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

hugo chavez said today

'For those who want him to die, they will get frustrated, because Fidel Castro will never die,' Chavez told a socialist rally in the capital Caracas. 'He will always live among the people that fight for a better destiny. He will always live in the people of Cuba, Venezuela and the Americas.'

[NotSoSilentBob]

Hugo Chavez is a raving egotistic lunatic. A [censored] weasel of the highest order.