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For a second there, I thought this was another sannityannex rant against Nate Kaeding. (if the PK for my team did that to me twice, I'd be uber-pissed too.)Die
Castro reportedly in grave condition
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070116/...in_cuba_castro
Fidel Castro is in "very grave" condition after three failed operations and complications from an intestinal infection, a Spanish newspaper said Tuesday.
The newspaper El Pais cited two unnamed sources from the Gregorio Maranon hospital in the Spanish capital of Madrid. The facility employs surgeon Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, who flew to Cuba in December to treat the 80-year-old Castro.
In a report published on its Web site, El Pais said: "A grave infection in the large intestine, at least three failed operations and various complications have left the Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro, laid up with a very grave prognosis."
Cuba has released little information on Castro's condition since he temporarily ceded power in July to his brother, Defense Minister Raul Castro, until he could recover from emergency intestinal surgery, prompting much speculation and rumor in the country and around the world.
El Pais' report, which could not immediately be confirmed, was a rare detailed description from a major media outlet about Castro's condition.
The U.S. government had speculated that Castro could suffer from cancer — a supposition denied by Sabrido. Some U.S. doctors believed Castro was suffering from diverticular disease, which can cause bleeding in the lower intestine, especially in people over 60. In severe cases, emergency surgery may be required.
That idea was supported by El Pais, which reported that its sources said Castro had suffered a bout of the disease.
"In the summer, the Cuban leader bled abundantly in the intestine," El Pais reported. "This adversity led him to the operating table, according to the medical sources. His condition, moreover, was aggravated because the infection spread and caused peritonitis, the inflammation of the membrane that covers the digestive organs."
El Pais said that in December, when Garcia Sabrido visited, Castro had an abdominal wound that was leaking more than a pint of fluids a day, causing "'a severe loss of nutrients." The Cuban leader was being fed intravenously, the report said.
A statement attributed to Castro was released on New Year's Eve saying his recovery was "far from being a lost battle."
Cuban officials told visiting U.S. lawmakers last month that Castro does not have cancer or a terminal illness and will eventually return to public life, although it was not clear whether he would return to the same kind of absolute control as before.
For a second there, I thought this was another sannityannex rant against Nate Kaeding. (if the PK for my team did that to me twice, I'd be uber-pissed too.)Die
Last edited by PixelPusher; 01-16-2007 at 01:23 AM.
thesanityannex vs nate kaeding
dam..... i thought george bush was found dead somewhere.................
*leaves thread sad
oh, i thought this was about hilary or pelosi. QUIT TEASING!!!!!!
finally cuban cigars!!!
That's what I thought!
I can just imagine the fools who'd like to Mung'em too!
Pugs, start forming a line!
I wish he could take Chavez with him.
Your boy is here to stay for as long as he wants. And he wants to stay
a looooonnnnnnng time.
All the corruption in the Latin countries is coming home to roost.
Although the new Mexican Presidente seems to have gotten the
message and "may" be trying to do something for the workers in
Mexico. Let us hope so.
My boy?
Pay attention ray. I have trashed Chavez on every time I've had the opportuntiy.
Leave ray alone he's on a roll
Just a figure of speech. I know he isn't your boy.
How many times has Castro died now?
Not that it matters, Raul is ready to grab the reigns in Cuba.
LJ is Dominican.
Dominicans (and a lot of other people) have good reason to wish Castro dead.
Not one artificial anus joke?
I'm disappointed.
What did Castro do to piss of the Dominicans?
I don't know exactly the whole story, but Castro claimed that he/Cuba were going to help some of the Domincans in their efforts to overthrow Trujillo back in the day. When in actuality he wasn't helping them and doublecrossed them, resulting in many Domincan deaths.
In the battle, LJ's grandpa and several of his great uncles died on the side of the Domincans who were trying to oust Trujillo.
Ultimately, it may be a -bag that brings Castro down...
GuardianMADRID, Spain (AP) - Fidel Castro himself told surgeons not to perform a colostomy, opting instead for a course of surgery that produced a complication leaving the Cuban leader in far worse condition, according to a newspaper report Wednesday.
After removing an inflamed piece of Castro's large intestine in an operation last year, the doctors connected the remainder directly to his rectum, rather than attaching a colostomy bag, El Pais said, quoting two medical sources at Madrid's Gregorio Maranon hospital. The operation failed when a suture burst.
``The Cuban dictator and his advisers are the ones who decided on the surgical technique that has led to the complications,'' the paper said.
While the newspaper article did not name the sources, one of the journalists who wrote it told The Associated Press that both were doctors at the hospital. The journalist, Oriel Guell, said none of the information in articles published Tuesday and Wednesday came from surgeon Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, who flew to Cuba in December to treat the 80-year-old Castro...
...Experts say it's possible Castro and his surgeons went for the riskier procedure to spare him the indignity of being temporarily attached to a colostomy bag for waste removal. In standard colostomies, patients are dependent on such bags for approximately six weeks.
Attempting to reattach the colon to the rectum is an inherently trickier surgical procedure, since waste can leak into the abdomen, causing infection.
``It sounds like they took a gamble and they lost,'' said Dr. Peter Shamamian, an associate professor of surgery at New York University School of Medicine, referring to Castro's surgeons.
Though Shamamian said it was difficult to speculate on Castro's condition, he said colostomies are a standard procedure that do not usually result in serious complications.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a close friend of Castro, said Wednesday that the report of Castro being near death was speculation, but did not elaborate. ....
And speaking of Chavez ...
BBC NEWS
Chavez admits Castro gravely ill
Cuban leader Fidel Castro is battling to save his life, Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez has said.
Mr Chavez, a close friend of Cuba's left-wing leader, said he hoped Mr Castro would recover but admitted he faced a hard struggle.
Mr Castro, 80, has not been seen in public since undergoing surgery in July and handing over political power.
Mr Chavez spoke at the Latin American summit in Brazil in a rare admission of the state of Mr Castro's health.
Chavez hopeful
Venezuela's president said he spoke to the Cuban leader by telephone for half an hour several days ago.
"He is going through a difficult situation but just like he says, the machine that they have to fix is 80 years old," Mr Chavez told the Mercosaur trade summit.
"I cannot give details [of his health] because I am not his doctor, and even if I was I would not give them to you.
"He's back in the Sierra Maestra and locked in a battle for his life," Mr Chavez said.
The Sierra Maestra is a rugged mountain range in south-east Cuba with a long history of guerrilla warfare.
After Fidel Castro returned to Cuba from exile in Mexico, he and his fellow rebels hid out in the Sierra Maestra from where they were able to expand their 26 July Movement, building up their guerrilla forces and starting the revolution which in 1959 overthrew the regime led by Fulgencio Batista.
"There are those who want Fidel to die... [but] we have confidence he will recover completely.
"I don't know when Fidel will die, I hope he lives 80 more years, I hope he lives 100 more years."
'Slow recovery'
There have been steady reports suggesting that Mr Castro's condition is extremely serious.
In an interview with the Reuters news agency, Dr Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, head of surgery at Madrid's Gregorio Maranon public hospital, described Mr Castro's recovery as "slow but progressive".
Dr Garcia Sabrido examined the Cuban leader late last year.
Earlier this week a Spanish newspaper quoted medical sources as saying Mr Castro opted for a risky medical procedure that led to grave complications.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/h...as/6281621.stm
Published: 2007/01/20 07:22:20 GMT
© BBC MMVII
Chevez is an idiot.
He claimed Castro is one of the brightest minds of the 20th Century, together with Che Guevara.
Both Che and Fidel were/are cold blooded assasins. Thanks God Che is not around since 1967 and Castro will join him shortly.
Democratically elected Chavez has now eseentially cancelled democracy.
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Chavez Gets OK to Approve Laws by Decree
By NATALIE OBIKO PEARSON
The Associated Press
Friday, January 19, 2007; 4:17 AM
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan lawmakers gave initial approval to a bill granting President Hugo Chavez the power to rule by decree for 18 months so that he can impose sweeping economic, social and political change.
Emboldened by his landslide re-election last month, the leftist leader has called for "revolutionary laws" to accelerate the country's transformation into a full socialist state.
"This process is unstoppable," lawmaker Juan Montenegro Nunez told the National Assembly Thursday. "This process is a historic necessity."
The vote was unanimous as the National Assembly has been entirely filled with Chavez's allies since opposition parties boycotted 2005 elections.
Chavez began his third term last week by announcing his intent to nationalize key sectors of the economy, rewrite the country's cons ution to eliminate presidential term limits, and strip the Central Bank of its autonomy.
He also called for an end to foreign ownership of lucrative crude oil refineries. Venezuela is the world's fifth oil producer and the fourth supplier to the United States, its top customer.
Chavez has angered Washington with his relentless anti-U.S. rhetoric, his support for Iran's nuclear ambitions and his warm relations with Cuban leader Fidel Castro. And yet with oil profits booming and his popularity high, Chavez seems to be in step with many Venezuelans.
At the apex of a resurgent Latin American left, he urged South American leaders meeting in Brazil Thursday to abandon the U.S.-supported free market policies and privatization of state industries that formed the pillars of their main trade bloc, Mercosur.
"We came to approve accords, create space (for the disenfranchised), projects to strengthen the real integration of South America and contribute with something we consider absolutely necessary: the reformulation of Mercosur," Chavez said.
The Venezuelan bill provides a broad "mother law" that would enable Chavez to enact laws by decree. The measure is expected to easily win final approval on its second reading in the assembly.
National Assembly President Cilia Flores said that vote would probably be next week, though she did not specify a day.
"The president has asked for a year and a half, and he will have a year and a half to adapt all of these laws to the new political model," Flores said as the debate opened Thursday. The discussion lasted four hours, though there was no real opposition.
Chavez has not spelled out what other changes he intends to make, but Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro suggested nationalization also was on the horizon for the mining sector.
"The basic industries of minerals should be in the hands of the national state," he said at the Mercosur summit in Brazil.
It was unclear whether that would mean a total state takeover or majority stakes for the government in mining operations now held by private companies. Already state conglomerates have for decades dominated the mining of iron and bauxite to produce steel and aluminum.
Chavez last week designated Venezuela's main telecommunications company and the country's electricity and natural gas sectors as targets for nationalization.
Chavez has formed a commission to rewrite the cons ution in keeping with his socialist vision and expects to hold a referendum on the changes by the end of the year. Chavez has already revised the cons ution once since he took office in 1999.
Among the changes, Chavez is seeking an end to presidential term limits, which would allow him to run again for the presidency in December 2012.
Chavez has been emboldened to make more radical changes at home after winning re-election with 63 percent of the vote, his widest margin ever.
Chavez says he is crafting a new sort of "21st century socialism" for Venezuela. Critics say it is starting to look like old-fashioned totalitarianism by a leader obsessed with power.
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