You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
Caribbean-Latin America
No justice in the world: Casto to live to "at least 140"
2006-05-20
Cuban dictator President Fidel Castro, who turns 80 this year, enjoys vibrant health and will live to 140, his chief doctor said.
I consider that a good sign. They usually say things like that a couple weeks before the guy dies.
Doctor Eugenio Selman-Housein, who heads Castro's medical team, denied that the longtime leader has Parkinson's disease, as the CIA reportedly believes. "Every day they invent a new one," Selman-Housein said. "He will live 140 years."
"Nothing to see here. Move along..."
Castro's health, once a taboo subject in the communist-led island, has become a topic of rejoicing discussion since he fainted in public in 2001 and slipped and fell before television cameras in October 2004.
"Nurse! He's doing it again!"
Castro, who quit smoking his trademark cigars in 1986, has tormented led Cuba since 1959. He turns 80 on August 13.
Let's hope he doesn't make it.
Posted by:Jackal

#11  Fidel's gotta have his pork.

Hmmmm, he won;t be converting to Muslim then, will he?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-05-20 23:49  

#10  IOW, Castro and Cuban Communism will outlive America - must those daily imported and expensive Spanish hams Castro can't live without. The Cuban People and Army can starve but Fidel's gotta have his pork.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-05-20 22:10  

#9  Look for the good doctor to suddenly either "Defect" or vanish, then Castro is truly in his last days.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-05-20 20:11  

#8  Likely Doctor Selman-Housein also values his own health.
Posted by: Fordesque   2006-05-20 18:55  

#7  just like Lenin is still alive?
Posted by: Frank G   2006-05-20 16:57  

#6  Yeah, that sounds believable.
So much for those vaunted Communist trained doctors...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-05-20 16:44  

#5  Like Captain Christopher Pike, Fidel lives in a world of illusion and make-believe, riding ponies picnicking in the meadow of Eden.
Posted by: Perfessor   2006-05-20 11:08  

#4  Is he stable yet?
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-05-20 05:42  

#3  "So sorry, I meant at least 140 days. My bad!"
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2006-05-20 04:32  

#2  Robo-Fidel at age 99


CaptPikeFidel
Posted by: Oldspook   2006-05-20 00:48  

#1  Cuban genetic engineering is pretty good. Maybe they whipped up something special for him. After all he's one of the richest people in the world and can afford it.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-05-20 00:30  

00:00