Reports Swirling Fidel Castro is Near Death

By Guest Column —— Bio and Archives January 16, 2009

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It has been two months since Cuban leader Fidel Castro was photographed greeting Chinese President Hu Jintao, and now rumors are swirling once again that he is dying or dead.

CBS News reported Thursday that this time, the rumors could be rooted in something other than conjecture. They quote an unnamed intelligence expert who said that the reports “smell a little different this time.” The Miami Herald also marshaled evidence that suggests, at the very least, that Castro may be gravely ill and rapidly declining...more