Is it a Dyson or a Hoover?

There’s another rumor making the rounds in Cuba….
This time around, it’s not about the death of the undead dictator, the whereabouts of Raul or the elimination of la libreta.

Worse, it’s about the whereabouts and the timeline of the sickness of fidel castro.
We have been informed that the latest rumor has been directed to the foreign press in Havana, to mislead the young and unseasoned reporters to believe that castro could not be doing that badly as many of the old wolves of the European press in Cuba have gathered.

So they have assembled a new rumor, saying that fidel castro never left the building, in the most literal way possible. The propaganda machine and the military counterintelligence have planted their agents at all levels and they are saying that castro was operated just after his return from the activities of July 26th 2006 on his personal clinic located in the same building where his offices are, in the Consejo de Estado headquarters at the Plaza de la Revolucion, and that he has been kept there where he’s working and writing his “blog entries”.

It sounds somehow plausible that Castro was treated by his personal physicians on site, but we have a very detailed description of the facility and while it does have an operating room with high tech equipment and all sort of diagnostic machines and life supports, it was not sufficient to carry on the complex surgeries required by Castro conditions.

Some of you would recall that we actually placed the intestinal problems previous to his trip to Argentina, and that we said that the trip plus the stress of the July 26th speech did him in. We mentioned that he had a colostomy bag already when he went to Argentina, and that he had a slew of medical problems by that time.

So we need to put to rest the rumors planted by the Castro propaganda machine through moles everywhere specially in traditional journo watering holes like Marina Hemingway, El Floridita, the Ambos Mundos and La Bodeguita del Medio. The rumors have been such that the very same location of Punto Cero have been murkied in such ways that even some journalists have been handed Google Earth print-outs with conflicting locations for the compound.

In a twist reminiscent to that classic Graham Greene novella, Our Man in Havana, many of these journos have been fed with the proverbial scheme of the vacuum cleaner, some with sketches of a Hoover, some with sketches of a Dyson, but they are vacuum cleaners, not the real McCoy. The deception runs deep, and even our blog was tried to be fed that information, and yeah, our man down there seemed to have swallowed hook, bait, sink, and line. He took the rumor, seem convinced and we instructed him not to show his face anymore at the site where he was fed it.

Our sources on the medical profession affirm that Castro was taken to the CIMEQ after a consultation with doctor Salman Hussein, his personal physician (no, he’s not Iraqi, he is not Egyptian, he is not Syrian, he is Cuban of Arab backgrounds from the province of Holguin)

Castro was not doing greatly, and he was losing blood internally. Dr. Salman Hussein determined that he had to be taken urgently to the CIMEQ. Castro refused the helicopter ride, and he was taken in his own caravan from his offices at the Plaza de la Revolucion complex to the CIMEQ.

He botched his first surgery, by giving orders to his surgeons who operated under threat. Then the complications arrived, and we have information about seven surgeries in a brief period of time. He was transferred by ambulance to Cira Garcia, in the Kohly section of Playa, and he insisted in ordering around his doctors and in administering himself a treatment of his own concoction. He took a turn for the worst, and he was taken out of the Cira Garcia Clinic wrapped in blankets and driven in his own caravan back to CIMEQ.

At some point, he was taken to the clean room at the labs in Bejucal, where the infamous vaccine for hepatits B is produced (it is a derivative from the E-Coli virus). In that facility they also produce Grade A Interferon, and our sources on site reported his presence the same night he arrived to the out of limits area.
Ony the highest ranking scientists were left there with a few doctors and a very select foreign staff.
We have a million conjectures but nothing that would be proven to be the absolute truth of what happened there. Curiously during a hurricane a military scuba diver was sent to the out of limits basement -or is it a flooded bunker?- to retrieve a non identified substance. The diver died in the attempt, but Castro wrote a piece saying that there were no casualties as a result of the storm. What was down in the flooded basement that was so important that Castro had to have immediately is still a mystery.

After more treatment and possibly more surgeries at the CIMEQ, Dr. Salman Hussein pleaded with Castro and Dr. Garcia Sabrido from the Institute Gregorio Marañon accepted to go to Cuba and take a look at Castro. Note of interest: Dr. Garcia Sabrido is a close friend of Mirta Diaz Balart. Our sources at the Gregorio Marañon leaked to us a good deal of information, which was also published in Spanish newspapers.

Since then, Castro’s health has taken a turn for the worse, so badly that Raul Castro ordered that the personal team of Castro was placed close by, and also activated the transition team –all as approved back in the seventies in the First Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, where the succession process was lay down. In several posts we have described the complications of his many surgeries.

At this point, the military intelligence and counterintelligence apparatus are “drawing a lot of vacuum cleaner sketches”. Those “sketches” are being fed to the press, to the population, and to the exile community in a very effective fashion, even causing upheaval and disruption in Miami. As we have said, whenever the government of Cuba wants to create a “credible” rumor, they launch it first in the exile community.

The tyranny is gathering very good information about the reaction of the population and the exiles. They are evaluating the response of the defense forces, the intelligence, the police, the emergency response services, and the general population (both in Cuba and in the USA) and what is even more important, the reaction exiles and the internal dissidents.

The irrelevance of Fidel Castro is such now that the country is working without him, and the succession in power has been practically achieved. The destruction and deconstruction of his myth has been started already, and it has been done according to the communist liturgy as established by the Soviet method. All that is needed now is to determine when will be convenient that he dies, and when to announce it.

It’s very unlikely that the news leak out, unless it’s absolutely convenient for both the government of the USA and the Junta headed by Raul Castro. We will continue developing this theme, since we are still verifying crucial information about what’s been cooked in the cupola of power in Havana.