A "stronger" Fidel Castro with the Venezuelan
president, Hugo Chávez. Photograph: APThe big party in Miami is off. For now, at least. In what must go down as this year's most disappointing set of news for Florida's Cuban-American population, not only is Fidel Castro "stronger", but their plans for a stadium-sized party when the Cuban dictator died, have been shelved by the city council.
The idea, described here in the Miami Herald, was always to use the Orange Bowl stadium in Miami as an "overflow" for street celebrations - it's situated next to the Little Havana area of Miami. But last week, a committee of community leaders met and started to plan an official Castro death party in the stadium, complete with T-shirts, stages for bands and a media village. "'When Castro dies, Miami will party like it's 1959,'' said CNN.
But after complaints, the Miami mayor, Manny Diaz, yesterday declared it wouldn't happen. "I'm not into parties," he said.
