Castro may be terminally ill, or he may not be.
The CIA is not noted for producing or disseminating accurate information.
When Jorge Mas Canosa, the leader and founder of the most anti-Castro organization here in Miami, the Cuban American National Foundation was in the hospital, dying of lung cancer (unlike Fidel, he never managed to give up his cigars), my college decided to give him an award (his followers agreed to give us money). Jorge, being as he was two weeks from dying in the hospital, didn't attend, and his son was sent to pick up the plaque. The rather small audience was treated (punished, perhaps was a better word) with a thrirty-minute diatribe about how Mas Canosa didn't have any sort of cancer, but some rare thing described only in Latin, and would be up on his feet and running the CANF in no time at all. All the rumors were false, spread by enemies, including Fidel and of course, the Miami Herald.
Mas Canosa had a campaign in which he rented space on the city buses to tell the world "Yo no Creo el Miami Herald" (I don't believe the Miami Herald).
This was in response to absolutely nothing that was said about the old man having cancer. Jorge Mas, the son of Mas Canosa was presented as the new temporary leader of CANF.
Two weeks later, Mas Canosa died. Of lung cancer, according to all the papers I read and all the broadcasts I heard. I think that some Cubans who make copycat Cuban cigars in Honduras and Santo Domingo were his major contributors and he didn't want to queer the sales of said cancerous, yet luxurious, products.
Several years later, CANF is no longer run by Jorge Mas. I'm, not sure is he is even on the board of directors. It's a secret organization, for the most part. It would like to be the shadow oligarchy that actually runs Cuba when Fidel dies, but I don't think this is likely.
I have heard that people on the island that hate Fidel loathe the CANF.
