lunes, abril 30

The Latell Report

Aquí están extractos de la última entrega del reporte mensual de Brian Latell, profesor asociado de la Universidad de Miami y ex director de la CIA para Latinoamérica.

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More than eighty years old, the cumulative toll of the three life-threatening surgeries Castro has reportedly endured has surely been devastating. Last week a senior American intelligence official confirmed in a meeting with reporters that Castro indeed suffers from Parkinson’s disease as well as diverticulitis and perhaps Crohn’s disease, a debilitating inflammation of the digestive tract.

The brew of powerful medications he takes to treat his infirmities and associated pain probably has debilitating side effects. If, as suspected, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s eight or ten years ago, the medications to control its characteristic tremors and physical rigidities may no longer be providing much relief. Some of those medications can cause intermittent cognitive impairment. Not surprisingly, therefore, the unnamed U.S. intelligence briefer told reporters that available evidence suggests that Castro’s “health remains precarious.”

So if this analysis is generally correct, how much longer will it be before Fidel’s official and final abdication? As Cuban leaders ponder that possibility they should review the text of an important speech Castro delivered at the University of Havana in March, 1966. Without naming Mao Tse Tung, Castro denounced him and other elderly Chinese leaders with whom he was then bitterly at odds. Castro told his student audience that Mao should step down and pass power to a younger generation of leaders.


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4 comentarios:

  1. Hacia donde va cuba Rui, hacia el abismo, el ostracismo, la desilucion....?

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  2. estos informes, para quienes el budget no les alcanza para el Charmin, si agarran estas paginas como si fuera el Granma, las rocian con agua y "estrujan" para suavizar... y el resto ya saben...

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