Fidel Castro Dead ?
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Rumors that Cuban leader Fidel Castro is dead or close to death seem to surface every few months. But a longtime Castro watcher in the intelligence community says the latest bout of rumors “smells a little different,” reports CBS News’ David Martin. The source says that they are coming in from so many different places that he gives more credence to them than usual. CBS News’ Portia Siegelbaum in Havana says that rumors have definitely increased during the past two weeks, fueled in particularly by remarks by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who during a weekly radio and television address said Castro would never return to public life and but would “live on” beyond physical life.
The Miami Herald marshals further evidence of Castro’s ill health. According to The Herald: (more…)
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