BREAKING NEWS: No Miami events planned if Castro dies

[Mika]

Source: Miami Herald

If Fidel Castro dies, the streets of Little Havana are expected to be boisterous, emotional, cathartic.

Everywhere except the former Orange Bowl site.

With the iconic Orange Bowl stadium no longer standing -- it was razed last year to make way for a Marlins baseball stadium -- plans for a post-Castro Orange Bowl event also have vanished.

There is no replacement venue. If organizers approached with a site in mind, Miami leaders will listen, but the focus for now is on having enough police presence so that ''spontaneous'' celebrations stay orderly.



Fidel Castro as seen on November 18, 2008

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/486/story/853962.html

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Here in Miami, rumors and "news stories" are spreading like wildfire that Castro is dead (again) or will be dying shortly (duh - he's 84+ yrs old, post colostomy).

[hlthe2b]

1. 9 lives--hell... this guy's died more often than Al Quaida's #2

have been captured...:eyes:

And for the record, I find it disgusting when supposed human beings celebrate the death of any other. Snarky rebuttals aside, that is truly how I feel.

[Mika]

2. "disgusting" pretty much sums up Miami. n/t

[el_bryanto]

3. I don't know - they got some good restaurants.

That said, I think this is an issue where one I can see both sides of it; while being happy someone is dead is never pretty I can understand how you would feel that way.

Bryant

[Mika]

6. I guess you mean the ones that haven't closed.

On my ride to work I pass by at least two dozen restaurants that have closed in the last month. :(

There is only one thriving industry in Miami right now - the anti Castro industry - and that is funded by our tax dollars.

[GodlessBiker]

5. I like the Fountainebleu. Oh wait, that's Miami Beach.

[Mika]

4. This story is a headline on today's Herald, and the lead story on EVERY radio & TV station in Miami.

Yet it gets bounced to GD in less than 4.5 minutes? :wow:

A new record for a Cuba related LBN story. :crazy:



The City of Miami had planned a HUGE celebration at the old Orange Bowl stadium that was expected to shut down the entire central city as well as "Little Havana" and other areas around Miami-Dade county.

It is a major development for the rabbid RW exile run City to not have any plans on the books for this!

[Cetacea]

7. Sentinel has coverage too I'm guessing.

[bluecollarcharlie]

8. How many presidencies has this man outlived?

Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and now he's going into the incoming Obama presidency.
That's ten plus one folks. TEN. Remember a few years ago when these same type of rumors were going around? The right-wing pundits and (especially) the guys over at Fox were in a frenzy at the prospect that the man had dropped dead. They were disappointed at the fact that he actually had the gall to live. I remember laughing about that then. I think i'm gonna have another good laugh now.

As for Miami? That's a place that really needs help. But with the "Anti-Castroness" of a candidacy being the only litmus test for joining government and a anti-Miami crowd in Florida's legislature, i don't see much happening.

[Mika]

9. Fidel Castro is no longer President of Cuba.

So, while he might live during an Obama presidency, he will not preside during it.

[bluecollarcharlie]

10. I know he is longer president of Cuba....

...To clarify what i posted- What i meant was this: During every one of those administrations there were either active plans to remove him or predictions that he would be overthrown. Each of these have failed to come to pass. Some of plans must surely have included assassination. That didn't happen either; he removed himself. And while i'm not the biggest fan of Fidel, i'm also not a great fan of the right-wing death pundits either. That's what i meant and probably what i should have posted too.

[Mika]

11. OK. Cool.

I wasn't being confrontational. Its just that so many posters that I come across here are very un/misinformed about Cuba. I thought I should clarify his position.

[ogneopasno]

12. Wait, WTF, they tore down the Orange Bowl?

[Mika]

13. No Orange Bowl parade either.

The footbawl game is played where the Miami Dolfins play - in Broward.

Miami is dead. Except, of course, for the anti Castro and smuggling industries funded by all of us.