A rumor about Cuba

News of his demise may be premature. As all the world knows, Fidel Castro is in the hospital recovering from gastric surgery.

If you believe U.S. analysts, I’ve already missed my chance to visit Fidel Castro’s Cuba.

Quoting from the foreign press (Taiwan and South Africa):

“My opinion is, he’s never going to be able to resume his act,” said Brian Latell, a former intelligence officer at the Central Intelligence Agency. “He’ll never be back in the saddle. His era is over.” Another prominent Cuba expert, Jaime Suchlicki expressed a similar view, saying that “succession has taken place.” “Fidel Castro is not returning, and if he is returning, it will be in a ceremonial cap,” said Suchlicki, director of the Institute of Cuban and Cuban-American Studies in Miami.

There’s at least one conspiracy theory floating around on the radical left, that Fidel never underwent surgery at all; that the entire event was part of an elaborate effort to evade a secret CIA plot to assassinate the Cuban leader.

According to most of the more mainstream U.S. press, Castro’s not doing so bad. One story went so far as to say he’s already back to ruling the country by cell phone and will be back in front of the media soon. Meanwhile, a religious leaders are praying, and soliciting prayer, on his behalf. That can’t be bad, right? Christians are supposed to love their brethren, even if those brethren be heathens and communists. That, at least, is my understanding about Christianity.

So maybe he will recover, and, if he does, I will go to Castro’s Cuba as soon as I can make the arrangements.

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