Castro To Receive a Summons

Miami Herald Reports

BAY OF PIGS
Invasion vets suing Castro

46 years ago more than 100 men captured by Cuban militia "were were packed into a trailer normally used to transport tobacco leaves, outfitted so it sealed in moisture and kept out fresh air" following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion

Urine and excrement sloshed on the floor, and men and boys -- more than 100 men captured by Cuban militia -- took turns breathing fresh air out of a small hole someone punched in the truck's side.

When the truck stopped eight hours later in Havana, nine of the men inside were dead.

Today, Miami-based survivors of the invasion plan to file a lawsuit against Cuban military commander Osmany Cienfuegos, who they say gave the order to pack the men into the truck -- and Fidel Castro.

Because he has ceded head-of-state powers to his brother Raúl, Castro may no longer be immune to charges from the lawsuit, the group said. Cienfuegos, who is in his 70s, is a member of Raúl Castro's inner circle.

People who witnessed the truck ride claim they heard a Cuban officer warn Cienfuegos that the truck was overloaded and had no air.

''Let them die. I don't care,'' they remember Cienfuegos saying as he ordered the officer to shut the doors.

When the truck unloaded the men in a Havana stadium, Castro was there, witnesses said, and he saw the men's condition. Most of them were sent to Cuban prisons but were released about 18 months later as part of a deal with the United States.

Prying1 sez: They better hurry up with this lawsuit. With the condition Castro is in they don't have long...

I wonder how many movie stars will go testify in Castro's defense?

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Castro's Birthday Party Postponed

Fidel Castro, murderous dictator of Cuba, has postponed his 80th birthday party due to illness. His birthday is on Aug. 13 but the big shebang will be Dec. 2, the 50th anniversary of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. If he lives that long.

Apparently recent illness has caused Fidel to prematurely (and he hopes temporarily) relinquish his death-dealing office as head honcho of Cuba to his younger brother Raul Castro. Raul is hoping he doesn't screw up the job prior his older brother expiring.

Fidel underwent surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding said to be caused by stress from recent public appearances. Some think the ducking and hitting the dirt every time an old Chevy on the island backfired was too much for the old man.

As one of the last bastions of Communism, Cuba has become a true garden spot in the world. That is, the only garden spot still run by someone who's green thumb was surgically removed when Soviet Russia failed economically. Fidel Castro insists that those are not weeds growing in that farmer's pastures and no one yet has had nerve enough to challenge him on it.

There has been no indication of "Get Well Soon" cards from the last of the remaining communist countries, China, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea...

Links to the full story here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060801/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_castro

http://www.newswatch50.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=17C17DA5-3FD6-4231-B99E-4788CFCF6874

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4085282.html

http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2006/07/31/ap2917359.html

prying1 sez: Thanks to Anita Snow and thanks to all the links above that carried the same Anita Snow story only slightly modified. Special thanks to Tarah Oliver of the above 'Newswatch50 link' who most likely borrowed from the same sources as I did but was not as entertaining as my blog post.

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