Quotes of the day

"It's not a good story. Too bad they didn't send him to Miami for surgery."

Prof. Charles Gerson, clinical professor of medicine in the gastroenterology division of New York's Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, who says it seems Cuban doctors may have botched up when treating Fidel Castro.

"It is not right that we have to learn about his health through a foreign newspaper, but it has always been that way. The press here says nothing."

Dalia, a student hitching a ride in Havana, on being told by a foreign journalist of speculation outside Cuba about Castro’s health.