The alarm awakened me to the sounds of Cuban ex-patriates cheering Fidel's surgery in Miami. Why are they cheering ulcer surgery, I asked myself? Then I remembered that in Communist governments, the admission of ill health usually means the ruler is already dead. (I note that the MSM is reporting
Raul Castro is a reluctant leader, who has gradually become more prominent of late, which probably means he staged a coup 6 months ago.) Sure enough, i
t's rumored Fidel is dead . . .or gravely ill. Babalublog has
a round-up. Found this tidbit in WaPo amusing, given they had to close down Bird St. in Miami because of spontaneous anti-Castro demonstrations:
In Havana Tuesday, a couple of hundred people rallied in the historic center of the city to show support for Fidel and Raul Castro and to express anger over celebrations by Cuban exiles in Miami, CNN reported.
Heh. We have more people rallying spontaneously than they do at gunpoint.
