Breaking news from Cuba: Generalissimo Francisco Franco Fidel Castro is still alive. Or so says the Cuban government, but rumors are rampant in Miami that he’s knock, knock, knockin’ on Hell’s door.
UPDATE: PerezHilton.com, that renowned source of international news and geopolitical analysis, says Castro is dead. More here. (Hat tip: A&A.)
Pajamas Media has a roundup of links, which will doubtless grow as more information is known. (However, one of their links, supposedly to a Miami Herald story about the Castro death rumors, instead currently points to a Space.com article titled, “Huge Hole Found in the Universe.” Wait… so Fidel Castro got sucked into a black hole???)
P.S.Glenn Reynolds blames “star-devouring space monsters” for the mysterious hole in the universe. Star-devouring, and Castro-devouring!
August 24th, 2007 at 6:21:47 pm
I’d be happier if it weren’t likely that Raul Castro will simply take charge.
August 24th, 2007 at 8:26:50 pm
There is 50+ years of institutionalized despotism in Cuba. Castro dying won’t end that overnight.
August 24th, 2007 at 8:39:19 pm
James Taranto has been alluding to Castro having been dead all along for months now.
August 24th, 2007 at 9:42:19 pm
You think Hugo Chavez was posing with a corpse? That would be something if that were the case.
August 25th, 2007 at 6:36:33 am
Star-devouring space monsters? More like temporal anomaly in the Devron System creating a collision between time and anti-time.