Castro says he “probably won’t be around in 4 years”

By Guest Column —— Bio and Archives January 24, 2009

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- Fausta’s Blog While rumors abound as to whether Castro is in a coma (an old rumor if there ever was one), here is this from AP: Castro says he probably won’t be around in 4 years

Fidel Castro said Thursday he doubts he’ll make it to the end of Barack Obama’s four-year term and instructed Cuban officials to start making their decisions without taking him into account.

There are those who doubt wheter the made it to the end of George W. Bush’s eight-year term, but I digress. The statement from Castro came in a Granma article,

Thursday’s essay came out on a government Web site shortly before the nightly news. Newscasters did not mention it, instead reading a column Castro had released on Wednesday.

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