Raul Castro MIA, Fidel Castro Cancer Report Emerges

[Tab]

Raul Castro is in firm control as acting president of Cuba, a government official claimed on Friday. But neither Raul Castro nor brother Fidel has appeared publicly since it was announced that the Cuban dictator had taken ill and his brother would temporarily take over the country.

Sensing that many were wondering exactly why Raul Castro was MIA, the government released some information saying that Raul was still acting president, and the health minister said Fidel Castro was "recovering satisfactorily" from intestinal surgery.
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Fidel Has Cancer, Report

Despite the fact that two Cabinet ministers claimed on Friday that the 79-year-old dictator was recovering, Brazil's Folha de S. Paulo newspaper said the Brazilian government had been told that Fidel Castro had a malignant stomach tumor, according to Reuters.

The Brazilian paper did not identify its sources.

"It looks like we will lose our friend," Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was quoted as telling an aide.
http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_27267499.shtml

[jumpoffdaplanet]

1. No one's seen Cheney for weeks either

Maybe they're all in the same bunker.

[IndyBob]

2. Two Dictators Together in the Same Bunker

I wonder what they are doing together? Oh - never mind, the image coming to mind must now be cleansed.

[Vanje]

4. Cheney is scheduled for a visit to Idaho this week.

Its a fund-raising junket for congressional candidate, Sali.
This Sali guy is a carpet-bagger bankrolled by Nordquists CLUB FOR CROWTH.
Its Idaho, so his chances are good, though Cheneys bothering about the race at all, indicates te junta might be a little worried about the election.

Castro is not expected to attend.

[wakeme2008]

3. Are you sure that site is LBN

looks like a cheap blog... Just checked google there is nothing from Brazil about this.

[BrotherBuzz]

7. What, you have problems with 'Ghost quotes' from brazil?

Picky, picky, picky - I say "If Frist can make a medical diagnoses from a video tape, then some un-named person on one of the internets can make stuff up too.". :rofl:

[EFerrari]

5. With friends like you!

:)

[Say_What]

6. This is LBN?? LOL don't think so.... more MiamiGusano propaganda n/t

[Robbien]

8. What bunk. This doesn't deserve LBN status

Propaganda to the max.

[malaise]

10. If we don't have a report on this

supposed cancer, the report is bogus. Bullshit indeed.

[Vidar]

9. More spurious propaganda for the Cuban Exile InnerTube Flotilla.

[0007]

11. What a bunch of crap!

Revealing truth? :puke:

[robcon]

12. The link is as follows... (SJ Mercury News)

"...Cubans were told in a statement attributed to Castro that most details of his health would be kept "a state secret" to prevent the island's enemies from taking advantage of his condition.

Most Cubans have insisted that they are sure Castro will recover and that the government will function fine until then. But others have privately expressed worries that their leader may be more sick than the world knows.

Speculation around the world has filled the information void.

In Brazil, the daily Folha de Sao Paulo ran a story Saturday saying "Cuban authorities" informed Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his party's leaders that Castro's health is worse than publicly acknowledged. The newspaper reported Castro, 79, apparently has abdominal cancer, and that the unidentified Cuban authorities said he would be too incapacitated to reassume power.

But hours after the newspaper hit the streets, Silva's office took the unusual step of shooting down the story.

"There's no truth to the news published today," said Andre Singer, Silva's spokesman. "The president has ... not received any information from Cuban, or any other authorities, on the alleged diagnosis published by the newspaper."

Folha, however, said it was standing by its story..."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15207857.htm