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A rumor that surfaced at the end of March is back today.

Two e-friends working on Wall Street say rumors are running around that he’s bought the big one. I find nothing on the wires.

h/t to Dr. Sanity who says, “Let’s hope they are true. And if they are, let me be the first to offer a prayer for his black soul.”

UPDATE: Dr. Rusty Shackleford is hearing the same things and has the same doubts. But, as he notes, “[O]ne of the lessons to be learned from The Boy Who Cried Wolf story is that, well, sometimes there really is a wolf.”

UPDATE II: Rusty has updated his post (link above) and has included a link to this at Real Cuba.

I received an e-mail from Cuba this afternoon saying that Castro is either dead or very gravely ill, but I don’t have any way of confirming it. The only interesting thing is that the e-mail is from the same person who sent me an e-mail early this year to tell me that Castro was planning to build a “forest of flags” to try to block the human right signs appearing at the US Mission. When I got that e-mail I posted the information also as rumor, but one day later ABC News confirmed the story. However, since I don’t know who this person in Cuba really is, I don’t have any way of knowing if what he is saying now is true or not.