Castro’s Possible Diagnosis: “Widely Metastatic Colon Cancer”
EFE News in Rio de Janeiro is reporting today:
“Cuban authorities told the president and the Workers Party (PT) that the dictator has cancer and that even if he recovers he might not return to power,” the newspaper said without mentioning sources.
“They said that the dictator might be kept from returning to power even though he recovers from the illness, a malignant abdominal tumor, according to the version with which the Brazilian government is working,” said the article signed by journalist Kennedy Alencar, Folha de Sao Paulo’s correspondent in Brasilia.
“‘It looks like we are going to lose our friend,’ Lula told an assistant after being informed of the dictator’s critical state of health,” the article said.
The story said that “word from Havana received confidentially indicates that Castro is very ill.” According to the daily, Lula was deeply moved and asked his collaborators for discretion and told his friends he is hoping for Castro’s recovery. The Cuban leader will be 80 on Aug. 13.
In Brazil, the daily “Folha de Sao Paulo” ran a story Saturday saying:
“Cuban authorities” informed Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his party’s leaders that Castro’s health is worse than publicly acknowledged. The newspaper reported Castro, 79, apparently has abdominal cancer, and that the unidentified Cuban authorities said he would be too incapacitated to reassume power.”
There was a Government “denial” of the story but the paper indicates it is standing by the story.
From the “Inside Surgery” blog, “What is Wrong with Castro?”
“Although Cuban medicine is generally not considered to be of the same quality as American medicine, it is considered advanced for a Third-World country. Cuban surgeons probably know that bed rest after surgery is now frowned upon. The current trend in post-operative care is to ambulate patients as soon as possible. In the biggest abdominal operations done on patients (liver transplants, pancreas resections, aneurysm repairs) every effort is made to get people out of bed in the first day or two. So, it is hard to imagine what surgery would keep Castro in bed for several weeks if he was not at a terminal stage of his life.
There is something suspicious going on here. If Castro had some non-life threatening condition, why would the authorities not simply say that he had a perforated peptic ulcer which was successfully repaired and that the recovery time would be a week?
My guess – Castro has widely metastatic colon cancer and will be dead in the next several weeks without ever regaining control of the country.”
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Posted by Stop The ACLU Special Contributor on August 5, 2006 8:51 pm
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