Texas flood
I am an admirer of the guitar work of the late Steve Ray Vaughan. This morning I was in the mood of listening to his amazing riffs, and his very particularly touching scales, and general fret work, and one of the songs, Texas flood was the better way of describing my mail box.
I had a few e-mails asking me about the rumors of fidel kasstro in coma as it was reported by Contacto Magazine, and the slip of the tongue -a Freudian slip if you will- committed by Lula, that semi-illiterate drunkard who shames the glories of Brazil with his presence in the Palacio do Planalto.
Our sources reported a while back that kasstro was taken out of the hospital wrapped like a mummy in a black cloth, via stairwells. He hasn't been seen or heard ever since.
One of our guys is an unrepentant skeptic and he says that we should prepare for the future while we wait the news from el Granma. Another one has an interesting point of view in this whole thing: he thinks that the rumor of death and/or coma maybe has its origins in the central core of power in Cuba.
Why?
Because:
1- He's dead and they need to prepare the people for the State Funeral, and knowing the culture and habits of the Cuban people what could be better than rumors that come and go and then land in the island from abroad?
2- He's not dead and he's permanently incapacitated: Somebody will have to kill him sooner or later. So they are preparing the people for this event. The interesting thing is that anytime that one of these rumors comes about, the Granma is totally silent and they don't publish anything that confirm the rumors but much less anything that might contradict the rumors, thus reinforcing the atmosphere of incertitude among the Cuban people.
3- It can be a montage geared to dupe the world, the exiles, and the population of Cuba onto believing that kasstro is dead when he's actually improving enough to show up in the December 2 celebrations. That would save chavez ass in the elections of December 3.
4- They are just waiting to kill two birds with one stone and will anounce the demise of kasstro a few days before December 2 to drive chavez down the toilet as well.
At this point, we need to keep our focus in the future of Cuba and we need to realize that kasstro is politically dead and irrelevant. His dictatorship will die with him, that's for sure, but we risk that some of his henchmen emerge as the leaders of a post-communist wild-west nation. The struggle for the steering wheel will be bloody. Some of the big names in the inner circle of power in Havana will leave the building at the same time kasstro "officially gives up the ghost". The difference is that they will have many bullet holes in their body.
I had a few e-mails asking me about the rumors of fidel kasstro in coma as it was reported by Contacto Magazine, and the slip of the tongue -a Freudian slip if you will- committed by Lula, that semi-illiterate drunkard who shames the glories of Brazil with his presence in the Palacio do Planalto.
Our sources reported a while back that kasstro was taken out of the hospital wrapped like a mummy in a black cloth, via stairwells. He hasn't been seen or heard ever since.
One of our guys is an unrepentant skeptic and he says that we should prepare for the future while we wait the news from el Granma. Another one has an interesting point of view in this whole thing: he thinks that the rumor of death and/or coma maybe has its origins in the central core of power in Cuba.
Why?
Because:
1- He's dead and they need to prepare the people for the State Funeral, and knowing the culture and habits of the Cuban people what could be better than rumors that come and go and then land in the island from abroad?
2- He's not dead and he's permanently incapacitated: Somebody will have to kill him sooner or later. So they are preparing the people for this event. The interesting thing is that anytime that one of these rumors comes about, the Granma is totally silent and they don't publish anything that confirm the rumors but much less anything that might contradict the rumors, thus reinforcing the atmosphere of incertitude among the Cuban people.
3- It can be a montage geared to dupe the world, the exiles, and the population of Cuba onto believing that kasstro is dead when he's actually improving enough to show up in the December 2 celebrations. That would save chavez ass in the elections of December 3.
4- They are just waiting to kill two birds with one stone and will anounce the demise of kasstro a few days before December 2 to drive chavez down the toilet as well.
At this point, we need to keep our focus in the future of Cuba and we need to realize that kasstro is politically dead and irrelevant. His dictatorship will die with him, that's for sure, but we risk that some of his henchmen emerge as the leaders of a post-communist wild-west nation. The struggle for the steering wheel will be bloody. Some of the big names in the inner circle of power in Havana will leave the building at the same time kasstro "officially gives up the ghost". The difference is that they will have many bullet holes in their body.
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