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Castro and Gabo Take a Long Walk

11:12 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia|Cuba|literature · Comments Off

15 Mar 2007

Fidel Castro is working more than his lips. According to an article in a Spanish newspaper, the Cuban leader who hasn’t been seen in public since last summer, is working his legs as well and with Nobel Prize winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

“I tell you, it seemed like kilometers,” the Nobel Prize winning Colombian writer said, describing a stroll the two went for on Monday.

“Fidel is a force of nature,” said Garcia Marquez, adding that he found Castro in good humor and interested in talking about global warming and Latin American politics.

Now if only Castro would talk and walk in public.

Via / MSNBC.com

Image Via / Progreso Weekly

Aló, Fidel! He’s still alive and kicking

1:54 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Politics|radio|Venezuela · Comments Off

28 Feb 2007

Vivito y coleando — alive and kicking. That’s Fidel‘s current state, according to an appearance he made yesterday on his homie Hugo Chávez‘s weekly radio show, Aló Presidente. If really interested, check out the video below (with a very LONG intro, unfortunately…let it load completely then fast forward through the guy in the suit), or just read my Cliff’s Notes after the jump.

Cuba to Journalists : No Credentials For You

8:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Media · Comments Off

28 Feb 2007

Three major media organizations were told adios, that they could no longer report from Cuba. The three news outlets are the Chicago Tribune, the BBC, and El Universal from Mexico. Two of the journalists have been in Cuba for a number of years. The Chicago Tribune’s Gary Marx was told he had 90 days to leave the island. Cesar Gonzalez Calero from El Universal can stay in Cuba because his wife is a credentialed Spanish journalist. The BBC is in negotiations with Cuban officials in Havana regarding the matter. The reason why the journalists are being asked to leave? Calero was told:…

his reporting was “not the most convenient for the Cuban government.”

Whenever the free reporting of information is threatened, it’s problematic, be it here in the U.S. or Cuba.

Via / Fox News

Cuba Embargo Still on “Go”

12:48 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Money|Politics · Comments Off

22 Feb 2007

There were some rumors within the Spanish language media that the U.S.’s 45 year old trade embargo on Cuba could be lifted or at the very least, loosened. Especially interested in this possibility are U.S. businesses who see the Caribbean island as an untapped source of dollars. This combined with the health issues of Fidel Castro has bolstered calls for the embargo to be reevaluated. U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez couldn’t disagree more. Speaking February 21 to the Council of the Americas, a Washington business organization, Gutierrez said:

I submit to you that foreign businesses will not flourish on the island as long as there is an active communist regime in control.

Castro on the verge of death…again

4:39 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Politics · Comments Off

16 Jan 2007

Well, we’ve heard this one before, but Spanish media is saying that Fidel Castro’s prognosis is “very grave”:

A Spanish newspaper cited sources at a Madrid hospital Tuesday saying that Cuban leader Fidel Castro suffered from a serious infection of the large intestine and faces a “very grave prognosis,” but the doctor who examined Castro last month said he stood by his statement of last month that Castro was recovering from his ailments.

El Pais — one of Spain’s largest and most reliable papers — reported that two sources at the Madrid hospital told its reporters that Castro had suffered complications after three failed surgeries to correct the problems.

Dr. Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, chief of surgery at the public hospital Gregorio Maranon in Madrid, traveled to Havana in December where he examined Castro for about 90 minutes. He told CNN’s Al Goodman Tuesday that he was not the source of the report in newspaper El Pais.

“Any statement that doesn’t come directly from his (Castro’s) medical team is without foundation,” Dr. Garcia Sabrido said.

CNN’s Sanjay Gupta offers what seems to me the first real explanation of what Castro may be dying from:

…the operation apparently is not working, Gupta cited the report as saying. “He is still leaking half a liter of fluid into his abdominal cavity every single day, which is a lot. He is a very sick guy, and that just leads to more infection,” Gupta said.

Via / CNN

Fidel May Not be Fatally Ill After All

9:28 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Politics · Comments Off

19 Dec 2006

Just last week there were reports that Cuban leader Fidel Castro was on his deathbed, again. A delegation of U.S. lawmakers are being told an entirely different story however.

Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said all the Cuban officials they spoke to during the three-day trip that ended Sunday told them the 80-year-old leader’s “illness is not cancer, nor is it terminal, and he will be back.”

No one has seen Fidel since the middle of the summer.

The real deal is that the truth won’t be known until one fo two things happen: Fidel shows face or he actually does pass. Until then all these reports amount to nothing more than static on radio bemba.

Via / Fox News

Evo Morales in Cuba to Celebrate Fidel’s Birthday

3:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bolivia|Controversia|Cuba · Comments Off

1 Dec 2006

Fidel Castro may not be coming out in public to celebrate his 80th or the historic 50th anniversary of the Granma, but other Latin American world leaders are coming out. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales arrived in Cuba today.

We express gratitude for solidarity from the Cuban to Bolivian people as well as Fidel Castro s friendship,” said the South American statesman.

“This year,” stated Morales, “the country has made two changes, one was nationalization of hydrocarbons and the other the land law, although there are still a lot of things to do, among them, the laws of pensions and mining.” Morales arrived in Cuba from Nigeria, where he participated in the South-South Summit in which “colonized countries met to free not only peoples, but also natural resources.” The Bolivian president was welcomed by the island s Vice President Carlos Lage Davila and other top leaders and diplomatic staff from Cuba and Bolivia.

Now all we’re missing is Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, who will be remaining in his home country for the presidential elections.

Via / La Prensa Latina

Fidel Too Sick To Show Face At Birthday Party

8:33 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Politics · 1 Comment

29 Nov 2006

Yesterday kicked off the official celebration of Fidel Castro‘s 80 years of life in La Habana, Cuba but the leader of the Caribbean nation was not at the Karl Marx theatre to blow out the candles on his cake. Porque? Just as many predicted, Fidel is allgedly still too ill to make any oublic appearances.

I direct myself to you, intellectuals and prestigious personalities of the world, with a dilemma,” said the note.

“I could not meet with you in a small locale, only in the Karl Marx Theater where all the visitors would fit and I was not yet in condition, according to the doctors, to face such a colossal encounter,” it added. The reading of the message was broadcast live on state television.

Fidel Comeback Not Likely Anytime Soon

11:08 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Politics · Comments Off

13 Nov 2006

For those hoping (and for those not) for a Fidel Castro comeback, both the US and Cuban officials are telling us not to hold our breath. US officials, claiming to base their prognosis on pictures (and not on inside on the ground spy info), think that Fidel has terminal cancer of the colon, stomach or pancreas and that this new year may be his last. Even Cuban officials have backed down from earlier predictions that put Castro back in power early next month, now refusing to speculate as to when or even if he will be back.

Fidel certainly doesn’t look healthy in recent pics and one couldn’t put it past the U.S. to exagerate or Cuba to downplay the real situation.

Image and Story Via / CNN.com

Fidel terminally ill?

12:45 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Politics · 1 Comment

9 Oct 2006

Time magazine is reporting that Cuban leader Fidel Castro could have terminal cancer, according to sources within the U.S. government:

U.S. officials tell TIME that many in the U.S. government are now convinced that Castro, 80, has terminal cancer and will never return to power. “Certainly we have heard this, that this guy has terminal cancer,” said one U.S. official.

Of course, such intelligence reports could be wrong, and one official cautioned that definitive proof is nearly impossible for the U.S. to come by. Yet the fact that the Cuban government removed Castro from the public stage before his death could suggest that Castro and his would-be successors were aware of a terminal condition and wanted to gauge public reaction to his absence. “They got to see how people would react,” says one U.S. official. “They have had a chance to see how things might work without out him functioning day-to-day.”

The Cuban government is denying allegations that Castro is in his last days, stating one official, “The United States Intelligence Services have been wrong for more than 47 years in their predictions not only in relation to the health of the Cuban President but also in all aspects regarding our country.”

Via / Time

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