Fidel Castro Unofficially Dead

Everybody awaits the news flashes as a growing body of opinion believes that Fidel Castro has expired. There has just been no official announcement.

Personally, I don't think circumstances will dramatically change with Castro gone. Cuba will still be an impoverished police-state communist country with brother Raul in charge.

Of course, one must conclude that Hugo Chavez will now inherit the position as being the New World's most prominent thug communist. I expect Chavez to now aggregate socialist aggressors under him and manage their crimes from his oil-fed continental perch.

Without Castro, there will be a new chair with a new ass but the same evil -- ambitious authoritarian socialism.