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Showing Original Post only (View all)Something is up in Cuba. Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo got detained after writing this: [View all]
The One Thousand and 959 Deaths of Fidel Castro
The last days of Castro? Well, after decades of surviving countless real assassination attempts and others constructed to blame political enemies; after boasting of titanic good health that lasted him almost 80 years; after fainting during a speech, being bitten by an enemy mosquito, falling over in public, suffering an intestinal hemorrhage, and undergoing multiple surgeries; after many social media rumors of his demise were proved inaccurate by his digital appearances, it seems that Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz will finally take on the last of his deaths. After being the man who held absolute power over a country for the longest period in world history, this death seems the most far-fetched precisely because it is the only one that is real.
The last days of Castro? Well, after decades of surviving countless real assassination attempts and others constructed to blame political enemies; after boasting of titanic good health that lasted him almost 80 years; after fainting during a speech, being bitten by an enemy mosquito, falling over in public, suffering an intestinal hemorrhage, and undergoing multiple surgeries; after many social media rumors of his demise were proved inaccurate by his digital appearances, it seems that Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz will finally take on the last of his deaths. After being the man who held absolute power over a country for the longest period in world history, this death seems the most far-fetched precisely because it is the only one that is real.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone predicts Castros death is imminent, it comes out every few years, blah, blah, blah. I've heard it before. Orlando was literally arrested the next day. Coincidence? I don't think so.
Give it a few weeks, we'll see what happens. I think the Cuba elites are playing some serious three dimensional chess because something seems really unusual about the stuff I'm reading on Cuban sites in the past few days.
Could be a totally off base suspicion though.
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Something is up in Cuba. Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo got detained after writing this: [View all]
joshcryer
Sep 2012
OP
Perhaps, but what kind of regieme detains people for writing things? nt
naaman fletcher
Sep 2012
#20
If there was evidence of a "monthly salary" those "resisting" would go to jail.
joshcryer
Sep 2012
#4
You attack like a Republican and are not informed with issues of concern to Democrats
flamingdem
Sep 2012
#15