News items about Fidel Castro abound on this first day of August, 2006. But I received a press release from Luis Moro Productions this morning that tops them all. Although ReelTalk's fact checkers are on vacation right now, I decided to pass the release along to our visitors and ask them to judge its contents for themselves. Here goes:   

Castro said he was delegating power in Cuba to his brother because he did not want to be around when Cubans in Miami see the real Cuba in the film Love & Suicide.  “They’re going to come and get me when they see Love & Suicide,” Fidel said, holding his guts in.

"Seeing the movie Love & Suicide caused an acute intestinal crisis with sustained bleeding," said a statement signed by Castro and read out by his official aide Carlos Valencia.

White House spokesman Peter Piper said he didn't want to speculate on Castro's physical health. "But mentally, Love & Suicide, the movie, scared Castro. Given the film’s success, we are monitoring the writer Luis Moro closely as Love & Suicide screens around the world.” 

“As a country, we continue to work for the day when ‘The Cuban Evolution’ Luis Moro started reaches everyone," Mr. Piper also told reporters. “Mr. Bush will be holding a private screening to educate congress and the senate on the film’s theme.”

Castro, who’s been in power since 1959 and turns 80 on August 13, two days after Love & Suicide opens in Miami, blamed the movie’s profound impact on him as the reason for his pre-resignation move. 

For more information and updates, go to www.TheCubanEvolution.com.