Add the Washington Post to the list of news agencies suspenseful over Fidel Castro's reelection to dictator. From the World in Brief digest on page A14 of the December 3 paper (emphasis mine):
In the first official indictation that he could remain Cuba's unchallenged leader, Fidel Castro was formally nominated Sunday as a candidate for the communist island's National Assembly, a requirement for continuing as president.
It remained unclear whether the ailing Castro would seek the post, but the nomination keeps his candidacy in play, providing a rare bit of suspense in a Cuban presidential election, analysts said...
While the Post culls its World in Brief feature from varying news wires, it could have reworked the wording to more accurately reflect upon Castro as an ailing dictator who's never faced a free and fair election, not a beloved leader emotionally rent at the notion of leaving public service.
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Suspense
December 3, 2007 - 22:20 ET by nkviking75It remained unclear whether the ailing Castro would seek the post, but the nomination keeps his candidacy in play, providing a rare bit of suspense in a Cuban presidential election, analysts said...
The only suspense in this "election" is whether or not Fidel will keel over before being "reelected".
Hey, maybe we can smuggle in Karl Rove to steal the election, just like he did to Gore! </sarcasm off>
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Fidel Moment
December 4, 2007 - 01:43 ET by Lame CherryPeople never have understood Fidel Castro. He is no more communist than Stalin.........he just found green uniforms got you elected for life as long as you had an AK 47. That is just a thug.
Liberals think Fidel is a leftist, but all he has ever been was a replacement for the mafia which ran Cuba. The banking cartels were not getting their cut so Castro popped in to make the monopoly and easy place like Stalin allowed Rockefeller banks and Rothschild buying cartels rape Russia for immense profits for the Soviet years.
That is all Fidel Castro is. One of the globalist mafia thugs of the world elite. He runs the drug trade out of the West Indies and sets up like minded thugs to expand his dealings so it is more efficient in moving contraband around so they don't loose shipments (nor have to pay off American customs and border agents but ship direct to key bases like during the Clinton years in Arkansas.)
Cuba is the Kosovo of the Americas and has been kept in power due to the fact the cartel banks here have been skimming billions for years from Fidel.
My favorite Fidel moment was his growing strawberries the size of softballs and they tasted like mush...........and before his illness his telling everyone they had to buy Fidel pressure cookers and not "contraband" cookers made by capitalist Cubans.
A mafia thug like Fidel always looks to the last cent to get his cut to screw people out of their last cent.
In the end, Fidel works for the same crime families which run the world..........as the same crime families which the Washington Post willingly answers to.
It would be nice if this old butcher would appoint Andy Garcia as president with the full army backing and Cuba could join the few civilized nations remaining.
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