Castro healthy enough to live till 140 years old: doctor

Cuban President Fidel Castro, who turns 80 this year, enjoys vibrant health and will live to 140, his chief doctor said.

Doctor Eugenio Selman-Housein, who heads Castro's medical team, denied that the longtime leader has Parkinson's disease, as the CIA reportedly believes.

"Every day they invent a new one," Selman-Housein said. "He will live 140 years."

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/19/060519204148.jda4r8qu.html

He's gonna outlast the cabal by a long time & they hate him for it.

I think it may have been Frontline. It ended with one of the academics they interviewed saying, "Bush? Gone. Major? Gone. But Saddam is still in power--which begs the question, 'Who really won?'"

'Course it's moot now. But at the time, it was an interesting point.

He is a despicable human being, which is probably why he will live that long.

He's outlived quite a few US presidents, and I don't think he's going anywhere soon. I wouldn't be surprised to see him make it to 100

Cubans in Cuba loved Batista - and they kicked his ass out.
Cubans in Cuba hate Castro - and he's still there after 47 years.

:crazy:

diet is to keep him so healthy?..I want some that :)

Show me where I did.

:shrug:

how silly he sounds. Castro is an evil person, I hope there is a hell for him.

And under a dictatorship, flattery works.

Besides, what he's trying to do is use silliness to highlight silliness from the CIA. He's just being the Rush Limbaugh of medicine, "using absurdity to illustrate absurdity".

how is he any more evil than Bush, Cheney, Rice, or Rumsfeld?

Sometimes DU loses sight of who the REAL villains are.

I am sure they will all be roommates in hell.

LOL

I don't doubt he's healthy, but when I read hyperbole like that it makes me question the whole article. It's obviously propaganda at that point.

Nobody's healthy enough to like to 140, 'cause people don't live that long.

Ok, fine, it's hyperbole for emphasis I guess... Still - I didn't think doctors commonly engaged in such "hyperbolic license". Guess I was wrong. LOL

"Senor El Presidente, You're an old man. You have Parkinson's disease. I'd be surprised if you last out the year."

So much for Dr. Selman-Housein's credentials, I'm guessing.

I think it's likely that Cuba will be worse off once he does die, since I'm betting that the Miami gusanos will pretty much take things over.

"I think it's likely that Cuba will be worse off once he does die, since I'm betting that the Miami gusanos will pretty much take things over."


The Miami gusanos (and US style corporatism) are about as wanted by the Cubans in Cuba as a bad case of gonorrea.

want ghonorrea, doesn't me you won't get ghonnorea. I mean, we pretty much got slammed with White House syphillis. Can anyone think of a better poloitical/venereal metaphor?

They've demonstrated this repeatedly throughout Cuba's history.

The gusanos won't be welcomed (nor tolerated) back.

Healthiest thing in the world.

.. he won a W.H.O. award for his national and international smoking cessation campaigns, that were promoted everywhere - except the US.

Marvin R. Shanken, editor and publisher of Cigar Aficionado, interviewed Cuban President Fidel Castro in Havana on Feb. 3, 1994 at the Palace of the Revolution.The interview focused on cigars, but touched on the United States trade embargo and President Castro's future.

Shanken: How important are cigars to Cuba?

Castro: It is one of our most important export items. It is also one of our main sources of revenues. It is also an important factor for us in the domestic market. In addition to that, we have the hard currency which comes from exporting cigars. Cigars are one of the four or five most important items of export that we have. First, it's sugar, then nickel, fish, tourism. These are the main items that provide revenues. Biotechnology is gaining ground as well as the pharmaceutical industry. And now cigars are more or less in the fifth place. Historically it has been very important....

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,4,00.html

So he's perfectly happy allowing his country to continue selling a product that harms peoples' health all over the world (except of course the USA).

He does not extoll smoking.

From your link..

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,4,00.html

Castro: It was when there was a general health issue in Cuba against smoking. At first, I thought that I would simply try not to smoke in public for this campaign against smoking, and I did not make a commitment to it. I used to be with a cigar in my mouth all the time. I always had a cigar. When I was with a foreigner in a meeting like this, I would be smoking my cigars. Pictures would show me smoking cigars, or in an interview on television I was smoking cigars. And then the interview would be shown on television here, and you can imagine what people would think watching me smoke my cigars. Then I came to a decision that to really launch a campaign against smoking, I had to set the example and quit smoking. That was why I quit smoking.

--snip--

I did it for reasons of health, even though my health was OK. It was a moral duty to contribute to the campaign against smoking. The World Health Organization had a campaign against smoking, and we were the first ones to support it. One day, in the same place that we are sitting now, a representative of the WHO came here to present me with two medals--one for not smoking and the other one for the government programs after the Revolution, which have turned Cuba into one of the countries with the best health ratings of Third World countries in the world.

So, you see, I can't smoke anymore. My commitment is very strong. It is final. It is a kind of commitment that I can't change. Anyway, I may not smoke. I agree with you that there are many things that endanger men's lives such as traffic accidents or diseases. And many things can be done for health that are unrelated to cigars.

Shanken: There are many educated people who are willing to take whatever the calculated risk is because they love cigars so much.

Castro: It's a person's right. They know how they feel about it--not to drink, not to smoke, whatever.

It is a person's right to drink, smoke, whatever, or not.

But he's still making tons of money selling a discretionary product that is inherently harmful and has no recognized health benefit. He is one of the largest drug dealers in the world.

<Seinfeld>

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

</Seinfeld>

Cuba does have a working elected government with various ministries that undertake and oversee the workings of the government. Mr Castro is just their revolutionary figurehead now.


http://www.poptel.org.uk/cuba-solidarity/democracy.htm

This system in Cuba is based upon universal adult suffrage for all those aged 16 and over.

-snip-


There are direct elections to municipal, provincial and national assemblies, the latter represent Cuba's parliament.

Electoral candidates are not chosen by small committees of political parties. No political party, including the Communist Party, is permitted to nominate or campaign for any given candidates.

teach those darned Batistans in Florida a lesson.