Remember in July when Castro was sick for what was claimed to be abdominal surgery? Well, Cuban officials have maintained that the country's leader will return to his post. "We will again have him leading the revolution," said Foreign Minister Felipe Roque just two days ago.
But U.S. officials tell TIME Magazine that many in the U.S. government are now convinced that Castro, at 80 years old, has terminal cancer and will never return to power.
Of course, such intelligence reports could be wrong, (like many other times in the past) 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 could mean that Castro and his possible successors were aware of a terminal condition and wanted to gauge public reaction to his absence.
How could the death of Castro change Cuba? Do you think that things will go the way they have been or a do you see a dramatic change coming?
The best article I have seen on Cuba after Castro is here: http://www.21stcenturysocialism.com/
article/small_earthquake_in_cuba_-_no_casualties_reported.html
What will happen when Fidel Castro dies? As the absolute normality pervading Cuba during the past few weeks of Fidel’s hospitalisation demonstrates, nothing will happen...
I believe that the Cuban people are obliged to follow his system of government not because they fear him like Saddam who would smite them but because they probably believe nothing will change. After Castro, they may be more willing to embrace "democracy". You know, democaracy may not be the answer to every country. What the US is claiming to practice is not democracy. Bush cheated his way to the White House in his second term. Anyway, I percieve a dramatic change in which Cuba will form and foster relations with other countries which it has not been doing for quite some time now. This is eventually, over time, prosper it's economy and inprove it's foreign policy. I really wish to see that stand up for themselves against the US who thinks they can use it as a pupper state building Guantanamo and what not.Thanks for the post... ;)
I hate spelling mistakes! Why do I never check... ;)lol
I was in Cuba during the Non Aligned Summit last month. I had the opportunity to observe things in the ground and talk to different people. My impression is that Cuba is not going to change in the inmmediate future. That does not mean most Cubans do not want change. What kind of change depends on each individual's needs and aspirations. I would say most will like to have a system with less controls by the government, easier access to food as well as better housing and public transport. Cubans though do not violent change. They prefer to wait. Some sort of change might be introduced by a future government led by Raul Castro once Fidel is gone or by his succesors. Watch Vicepresident Carlos Lage. No one wants to change anything in the house while the old man is still alive.
The Cubans don't need a Communist leader anymore in the 21st Century. Castro has been a dictator for decades and his time is up.
For some reason, I have developed this grudging admiration for Fidel Castro. As much as he was a dictator, let's not forget that he did alot for Cuba and its people. Although I can't speak for the Cubans, I hope that they will stand up for themselves, and restore and create their own government, their own ideas and philosophies, their own democracy. I really hate to see the end of Fidel, and a new Cuba with the U.S. imperialists getting in the way. They don't give a shit---U.S. politicians hide behind the cloak of democracy to propagate their own ideologies--and of course, for economic interests. Cubans don't want that, and that's what Fidel has been fighting for his entire life.
who give a sh*it
he was cuben no1 cares