Gee whiz, I imagine George Bush is losing sleep over this threat from the Cuban government.
Cuba's Parliament Speaker Ricardo Alarcon said Monday that if the U.S. tried to intervene on the island "it's going to become a hell for them from the first day."
"We will guarantee them total failure once again," Alarcon added in an interview from Havana with the Venezuela-based television station Telesur, apparently referring to the failed U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961.
Meanwhile the Cuban government continues to tell anyone who will listen that Fidel is just peachy, thank you very much.
Neither of the two Castro brothers has appeared in public since the July 31 announcement.
But officials say the president's recovery is going well. Speaking to journalists in Bogota, Lage said Castro was "conscious at all times" and was being well cared for at a hospital.
"A few hours ago, a friend who spent time with the commander and was impressed by his recovery told us: 'he is a copal tree'," the official Granma daily said.
It pointed out that the copal is an "incorruptible, compact and extremely hard tree" that is "ideal for building lasting works."
In his initial message, Castro said he decided to postpone his 80th birthday celebrations, but Granma reported Monday that 100,000 workers in the sugar production sector planned to stage a rally on Sunday to mark the event.
More than three million Cubans participated in a total of 80,000 demonstrations of support for Fidel and Raul Castro over the past days, according to the country's official and only trade union federation.
So, between the saber rattling and the assurances that all is well, nothing to see (including Raul) one wonders when they plan to let out the little details like Fidel being dead? They're already comparing him to a plant.
