Castro Watch Continues

Still no sign of a Fidel or Raul Castro sighting. Val thought he saw Raul at the local Winn Dixie, but he got him confused with Elvis.

One report says that Cuban officials were silent on Fidel's condition, and another just a couple hours later say that those officials think Fidel will return in a few weeks. The real answer? Who knows. We're not going to get any honest information from Cuba as long as Castro's cronies are in charge.

An earlier report claimed that Castro's doing well, and that he wasn't suffering from stomach cancer, as some had speculated.

No matter what, Fidel and Raul's exit stage left can't come soon enough for all Cubans who have suffered under his ruinous reign.

UPDATE:
This article provides some additional information about Fidel's whereabouts and condition. Apparently, he was treated at a hospital reserved only for Cuba's elites.

Doctors at the exclusive Cimeq hospital in western Havana are accustomed to handling the delicate health problems of Cuba's communist elite.

It was here last weekend, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt, that they battled for several hours to save the life of the regime's most important patient, Fidel Castro. Unable to stem intestinal bleeding with drugs, the country's top surgeons performed an emergency operation on the veteran leader.

UPDATE:
Another wire report claims that Fidel Castro is now up and walking around.

Cuban officials and allies kept up a steady stream of assurances on Sunday that the communist leader is on the mend from stomach surgery and soon will retake power he relinquished to brother Raul on Monday.

But neither of the septuagenarian Castro brothers has made a public appearance, and one Cuban leader suggested that Fidel, whose 80th birthday is August 13, may not return as the robust "comandante" he once was.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a close Castro friend and ally, said during a televised conversation with Bolivian President Evo Morales that Fidel was now able to leave his bed and hold conversations.

"This morning I learned that he's doing well, that he's already standing up out of bed, he's talking -- more than he should, because he talks a lot," said Chavez, who has become the most visible face of a group of increasingly influential leftist Latin American leaders.

So, are the Cuban communists busy putting a rosy picture out there? Who knows. But Hugo Chavez isn't just the most visible face of a group of influential leftists. He's a vigorous anti-American socialist who alligns his country with Iran and North Korea and whose ultimate endgame is going to cause millions of folks nothing but pain and misery.

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