The Buzzards Are Swarming

Castro is getting up there in age and the US is just waiting for him to croak. His fall last week prompted more buzz about him and what will happen in Cuba upon his death.

We're blocking travel and money to the Island so Fidel decides to strike back:

"Five days after falling and fracturing a knee and an arm, Cuban President Fidel Castro appeared on television yesterday with his arm in a sling to announce Cuba will end circulation of the US dollar.
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'The empire is determined to create more difficulties for us,' he said, referring to Bush administration steps to restrict travel and cash flows to the island nation.

A Central Bank decree said the dollar will no longer be accepted in shops as of November 8, when Cubans and foreigners will have to exchange them for a local currency with a 10 per cent commission. "

A friend of mine went to Cuba a few years ago and the consensus she found among the natives was that when Castro was gone, it wasn't a new government they feared but Miami Cubans coming back. Listening to chat on NPR about families in Miami wanting their old property back and that being first on the list if they ever got to go back, I'd say that Cuba is going to be a disaster and we will be caught right in the thick of it. Greed will prevail and the current residents will suffer greatly - not under communism but under blind capitalism.