Cuba Watch: Fidel Castro – Decided to Avoid Colostomy?

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Cuba’s President Fidel Castro is seen sitting in Havana October 28, 2006. Castro chose to avoid a colostomy and opted for riskier intestinal surgery that led to serious complications, the Spanish newspaper El Pais said in its Wednesday edition.

Reuters: Castro decided to avoid colostomy: newspaper

Cuban leader Fidel Castro chose to avoid a colostomy and opted for riskier intestinal surgery that led to serious complications, the Spanish newspaper El Pais said in its Wednesday edition.

The shortcut involved sewing the colon to the rectum but did not heal properly and broke apart, releasing gastric fluid with feces that caused serious infection, El Pais said on its Web site.

The newspaper reported a day earlier that Castro’s prognosis was “very serious” and that he is being fed intravenously after three failed operations for diverticulitis, or pouch-like bulges in the large intestine that get infected.

El Pais cited medical sources at the same Madrid hospital where a surgeon who examined Castro in late December works.

Spin Spin Spin………

Cuba government transition plans are in the works.

Ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro meeting with international leaders in recent months mainly from Latin America have raised speculations that he may moving towards a transition of power in a bid to protect his four-decade old government.

US National Intelligence Director John Negroponte while reviewing global threats last week said that Castro and his brother Raul, who has taken over as Cuba’s interim leader, are trying to create a “soft landing” leading to a transfer of power.

“From the point of the United States policy, we don’t want to see that happen,” Negroponte said. “We want to see the prospects for freedom in that country enhanced as a result of the transition” from Fidel Castro. Negroponte also said Castro’s days “seem to be numbered.”

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s President Fidel Castro in a September 15, 2006 television grab. Castro’s recovery from surgery is slow and has risks, his close ally Chavez said on Tuesday, but he denied reports Castro’s condition was serious.

Castro is 80 years old. He is not coming back to the presidency.

PUT A FORK IN FIDEL – HE’S DONE!

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