Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Will Fidel run?

Via Penultimos Dias, a clip from Spain’s El Pais (pdf) where Cuban balladeer Silvio Rodriguez, on tour in Spain, is quoted saying, “I believe – thinking out loud, I don’t know anything – that Fidel will not present himself as a candidate.”

Take it for what it’s worth. But if he does not stand for election to the National Assembly, he is effectively resigning, because that is the only path for election to the Council of State.

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 23, 2007 at 5:57 PM

    Y para los que no lo sepan, Silvio, además de cantante, es diputado a la Asamblea Nacional.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 23, 2007 at 10:43 PM

    Lo sabemos, lo sabemos y bien que lo sabemos. But I read that those comments "disapeared" from other versions of the interview. Is this true?

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  3. FantomasOctober 24, 2007 at 10:26 AM

    ultimamente el granmas y juventud rebelde han cometidos errores monumentales, especialmente en las versiones online

    han aparecido escritos , oraciones y al otro dia desaparecido como arte de magia...

    seran tan incompetentes o sera que hay alguien que nos esta enviando un mensaje

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  4. AnonymousOctober 29, 2007 at 9:28 AM

    So Silvio is a Diputado del Poder Popular?. In other words, a non- entity who can only nod and agree to the decisions already sent from above by the Party pyramid. Outside of Cuba the Poder Popular are known as the "the singing children of Havana" for a very good reason. The choirmaster gives the clue and the children start to sing the song they all have rehearsed previously. Isn't socialist freedom wonderful?

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