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Cuban President Fidel Castro holds a Cuban flag at the beginning of his speech in this Saturday July 26, 2003 file photo in Santiago de Cuba, eastern Cuba. Castro is in ‘very grave’ condition after three failed operations and complications from an intestinal infection, a Spanish newspaper said Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007.

AP: Castro reportedly in grave condition

Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is in “very grave” condition after three failed operations and complications from an intestinal infection, a Spanish newspaper said Tuesday.

The newspaper El Pais cited two unnamed sources from the Gregorio Maranon hospital in the Spanish capital of Madrid. The facility employs surgeon Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, who flew to Cuba in December to treat the 80-year-old Castro.
In a report published on its Web site, El Pais said: “A grave infection in the large intestine, at least three failed operations and various complications have left the Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro, laid up with a very grave prognosis.”

Flap thinks the 80 year old dictator is done…….

Stay tuned…….

A woman holding a sign in Spanish that translates to ‘Liberty for Cuba,’ joins revelers as they cruise the streets of Hialeah, Fla., in this Aug. 1, 2006, file photo, after hearing the news about Fidel Castro’s health.

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U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan stands before a banner demanding the closure of the Guantanamo U.S. naval base in Havana January 9, 2007. Sheehan and a group of other peace activists plan to march to the gates of the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo, Cuba on January 11 to protest against abuses at the prison camp for terrorism suspects.

New York Sun: Sheehan Dismisses Appeal From Cuban Dissidents’ Wives

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is ignoring an appeal by wives and mothers of imprisoned Cuban political dissidents for her to visit Cuban prisons during her trip this week to protest the treatment of suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay.

The Damas de Blanco, or Ladies in White, who march silently through the streets of Havana every Sunday in protest at the incarceration of political prisoners of the Castro regime, wrote a letter to Ms. Sheehan inviting her to visit Cuban prisons.

The Damas drew Ms. Sheehan’s attention to the poor state of Cuban prisons, which they say lack clean drinking water and adequate food and where their relatives are imprisoned solely for speaking out against Fidel Castro’s government.

The leader of Ms. Sheehan’s trip, Medea Benjamin, said the American activists had not seen the letter and that they would be focusing solely on Guantanamo.

Cindy Sheehan could care LESS about Cuban political prisoners and the squalor in which THEY live. Sheehan and Code Pinko cohort, Medea Benjamin rather focus on those poor Al Qaeda bastards, like Omar Deghayes in Guantanamo.

U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan (L) hugs Zohra Zewahi, mother of the Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes, during a news conference in Havana January 9, 2007.

“It just so happens that this is where the [ Guantanamo] prisoners are,” Ms. Benjamin said. That the group is visiting Cuba, where prisons define daily life for many, is “very incidental,” she added.

The Sheehan trip has angered some who believe she should also address Cuba’s imprisonment of political dissidents during her visit, not just those held in the American military prison.

“The fact that there’s so many Cubans in prison simply for expressing their political beliefs — nobody seems to pay attention to that,” the director of government relations at the anti-Castro Cuban-American National Foundation, Camila Ruiz Gallardo, said.

Cindy is running with the Socialist Worker/radical Islam crowd and would no more anger Fidel Castro’s government than kiss President Bush.

But, she would kiss Socialist Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

The Socialists Workers probably paid Sheehan’s expenses or did she use more of her son’s life insurance money?

Stay tuned…..

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (L) greets U.S activist Cindy Sheehan as he arrives at the meeting with World Social Forum Organizations in Caracas, Venezuela January 27, 2006.
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A woman walks near a photograph of Cuba’s President Fidel Castro in Havana in this file picture. A renowned Spanish surgeon has been rushed to Cuba to try to stop a steady deterioration in Fidel Castro’s health, a Spanish newspaper reported on Sunday.

AFP: Cuba awaits Spanish doc’s verdict on Castro’s health

Cuba was on tenterhooks over Fidel Castro’s fragile health, as residents of the Communist island awaited a visiting Spanish doctor’s diagnosis on whether additional surgery is needed.

Officials in Madrid confirmed Monday that a Spanish surgeon had been dispatched to Cuba to treat Castro, 80, who has not been seen in public for five months. Few medical updates have been made public since his reported intestinal surgery.

“The Cuban government decided to ask one of our top professionals to care for its president,” Manuel Lamela, health councilor for Madrid’s regional government, told reporters.

“When a government asks for help or collaboration, health officials respond,” Lamedo added, appearing to confirm a Spanish newspaper report, which identified the physician as Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, head of surgery at Madrid’s Gregorio Maranon hospital.

Separately, Spain’s Cadena Ser radio described Garcia as a well-known specialist in digestive problems.

Castro’s brother, interim leader Raul Castro, has said the Cuban leader’s recovery continues apace, but his continued absence from the public eye has fueled widespread speculation that he may be seriously ill and perhaps even near death.

US Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte told the newspaper The Washington Post earlier this month that Castro was likely to survive “months, not years.”

Obviously, Castro and his government are grasping at life and the last straws for Castro’s government. United States national security officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met last thursday to discuss Cuba and the aftermath of a Castro death.

President George W. Bush’s national security adviser Stephen Hadley chaired the 90-minute meeting on Thursday that included Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other officials, National Security Council press secretary Gordon Johndroe said on Saturday.

“We’re engaged in an interagency process that is focused on a successful transition to democracy for the people of Cuba,” Johndroe said.

Stay tuned for likely another surgery or the announcement of hospice care.

Two workers lean on a poster depicting Cuban President Fidel Castro in Havana on 19 December 2006. Cuba was on tenterhooks over Castro’s fragile health, as residents of the Communist island awaited a visiting Spanish doctor’s diagnosis on whether additional surgery is needed.

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A woman holding a sign in Spanish that translates to ‘Liberty for Cuba,’ joins revelers as they cruise the streets of Hialeah, Fla., in this Aug. 1, 2006, file photo, after hearing the news about Fidel Castro’s health. Cuban officials announced the head of Cuba had temporarily relinquished presidential power to his brother Raul due to intestinal illness.

Pajamas Media: Rumors Fly of Castro’s Death

According to Babalu Blog and, Pajamas Media has learned, some Miami radio stations… Fidel Castro is dead! Pajamas Media is investigating.

Meanwhile, a debate rages over whether Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla) urged the killing of the Comandante, a difficult thing to do if he is already dead. (NYT)

UPDATE: Spanish Radio said to have reported Castro dead. Miami police on alert. The Miami Herald comments on recent photographs of the dictator.

LIBERTY FOR CUBA!

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Cuban President Fidel Castro gestures as he addresses a crowd of Latin American students gathered in Pedernales, in Holguin province, Cuba, for the anniversary of the attack on the Moncada barracks, in this July 26, 2006, file photo.

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