Inspirado en un célebre antecedente (“La muerte de Trotsky referida por varios escritores cubanos, años después —o antes”) que Guillermo Cabrera Infante incluyó en Tres tristes tigres, Alexis Romay ha publicado en su blog una serie de parodias titulada “La muerte de Castro referida por varios escritores cubanos, años después —o antes”.
Una buena idea, sin duda.
Por ahora, pueden leer las versiones de la noticia “firmadas” por Antonio Benítez Rojo, Raúl Rivero y Cintio Vitier.
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1 camilo loret de mola // Jun 3, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Magnifico
Me gustaria ver el de Pedro Juan G. que se llamaria algo asi como “Barbacoas en Punto Cero”.
O Zoe Valdés con algo como “Ataud manchado de Caca”
Cesar Reinier -y no Reyniel- en algo como “Las tetas de Bettina como ultimo deseo”
O Ichi con “La pelvis infeliz”
que se inspiren por favor y no dejen de la mano de otros la imaginacion
2 Ernesto G // Jun 3, 2008 at 5:14 pm
BREAKING NEWS!!!
Hillary about to concede.
She will acknowledge tonight that Obama has enough delegates to win the nomination.
CNN, FOXNEWS
3 Ernesto G // Jun 3, 2008 at 5:22 pm
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/03/obama-poised-for-victory-as-clinton-weighs-options/
4 Lector // Jun 3, 2008 at 6:02 pm
La idea es buena, pero el resultado es malo. No logra meterse en el estilo de esos escritores como sí lo logró Cabrera Infante en TTT.
5 Woland // Jun 3, 2008 at 6:07 pm
¡Muy buenas! Me quedo con la crónica à lo Cintio, con su colección de títulos para enfangar el nombre del innombrable, de aquí hasta el fin de los tiempos (ida y vuelta).
6 Woland // Jun 3, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Oye, no, lo ha desmentido…
7 ERNESTO G // Jun 3, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Barack Obama has effectively clinched the Democratic nomination, The Associated Press reported Tuesday afternoon, even as Hillary Clinton’s campaign rigorously battled reports that she would concede the race Tuesday night.
The Associated Press reported that based on public and private commitments from superdelegates, as well as the minimum amount of delegates Obama will earn in the final South Dakota and Montana primaries, Obama will have secured the Democratic race Tuesday. That was after the AP reported Clinton will concede later in the day that Obama has enough delegates to stake claim to the party’s presidential nomination.
The Clinton campaign issued an immediate denial to the latter story, though it left the door open for what would happen come Wednesday morning.
“The AP story is incorrect. Senator Clinton will not concede the nomination this evening,” the campaign said in a statement.
Clinton aides told FOX News that the only concession she will make Tuesday night is that Obama “has a slight lead in the delegate count.”
They said Clinton plans to claim she has won the popular vote, and is working up a victory-type speech for her address in New York City.
“She is definitely not conceding tonight,” a senior aide working on the speech with Clinton told FOX News.
“She is in this race until we have a nominee. We do not expect there to be one tonight,” Clinton spokesman Mo Elleithee said.
Elleithee said Clinton is spending “the coming days” trying to convince uncommitted superdelegates that she is still the stronger candidate to battle presumptive GOP nominee John McCain. And he said she is still “weighing her options” on whether she will appeal the Democratic National Committee decision to award disputed Michigan delegates in a way he said was “fundamentally flawed.”
Obama, meanwhile, was steadily picking up superdelegates Tuesday and inching ever closer to securing a majority of Democratic delegates, although it remained unclear whether he would go over the top Tuesday night.
The outcome of the Democratic contest could come by the end of the day with some choreography by the party’s superdelegates.
But if Obama can’t claim victory Tuesday night, he’ll be awfully close.
Six more superdelegates endorsed Obama Tuesday, leaving him just 37.5 delegates short of the 2,118 needed to secure the nomination.
Montana and South Dakota together offer 31 pledged delegates, so Obama would undoubtedly need more superdelegates to make his victory official even if he fares well in those states.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Clinton backer, told FOX News she’s heard that about 12 uncommitted senators — who are superdelegates — will announce their support for Obama Wednesday. That report has been circulating on Capitol Hill.
The AP, citing two unnamed sources, said Clinton will likely stop short of formally suspending or ending her quest for the White House Tuesday night. The AP said she will pledge to continue to speak out on issues like health care, although the sources told the AP they acknowledge the campaign is basically over. The campaign is expected to release most of its staff on June 15, according to the report.
In another signal that Clinton might be coming to terms with her situation, Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe said Tuesday that once Obama gets the majority of convention delegates, “I think Hillary Clinton will congratulate him and call him the nominee.”
But he denied the AP report in a televised interview. Clinton aide Howard Wolfson also denied it, according to Politico.com.
Clinton, once seen as a sure bet in her quest to become the first woman president, was still pressing superdelegates to support her fading candidacy. But McAuliffe indicated she was not inclined to drag out a dispute over delegates from the unsanctioned Michigan primary, despite feeling shortchanged by a weekend compromise by the party’s rules committee that she could still appeal to a higher level.
“I don’t think she’s going to go to the credentials committee,” McAuliffe said on NBC’s “Today” show. Taking the matter to that committee would essentially extend the dispute into the convention and deny Democrats the unity they want to battle McCain.
Seeing the cards fall into place for his November rival, McCain planned a prime time speech Tuesday night in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, La., in what will essentially be a kickoff to his fall campaign.
Obama told The Associated Press on Monday that “we’ve got a lot of work to do in terms of bringing the party together” with the convention approaching.
“Once the last votes are cast, then it’s in everybody’s interest to resolve this quickly so we can pivot,” he said.
Obama said there were a lot of superdelegates who have been private supporters of his but wanted to respect the process by not endorsing until the primaries were over.
“We’re still working the phones and we’re still talking to people … so we’ll certainly have to wait until a little later tonight to see what the final tally is, but we certainly feel good waking up this morning,” Robert Gibbs, Obama’s spokesman, told CNN on Tuesday.
In a defiant shot across the GOP bow, Obama, who returned to hometown Chicago late Monday, planned to hold his wrap-up rally in St. Paul, Minn., at the arena that will be the site of the Republican National Convention in September.
Clinton returned to New York, the state she represents in the Senate, planning an end-of-primary evening rally in Manhattan.
“I’m just very grateful we kept this campaign going until South Dakota would have the last word,” she said Monday at a restaurant in Rapid City in one of her final campaign stops.
She still sounded buoyant, but her biggest booster and most tireless campaigner, husband Bill Clinton, didn’t. “This may be the last day I’m ever involved in a campaign of this kind,” the former president said somberly as he stumped for his wife in South Dakota.
Ahead of Tuesday’s concluding primaries, Obama sought to set the stage for reconciliation, praising Clinton’s endurance and determination and offering to meet with her — on her terms — “once the dust settles” from their race.
“The sooner we can bring the party together, the sooner we can start focusing on McCain in November,” Obama told reporters in Michigan. He said he spoke with Clinton on Sunday when he called to congratulate her on winning the Puerto Rico primary, most likely her last hurrah.
That fueled speculation for a “dream ticket” in which Clinton would become Obama’s running mate — but neither camp was suggesting that was much of a possibility.
In the AP interview, Obama was asked when he would start looking for a running mate.
“The day after I have gotten that last delegate needed to officially claim the nomination, I’ll start thinking about vice presidential nominees,” he said. “It’s a very important decision, and it’s one where I’m going to have to take some time.”
FOX News’ Aaron Bruns and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
8 bustrófedon // Jun 3, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Gracias, Camilo, Woland y Lector.
Camilo: tomo nota de tus sugerencias…
Lector: Respeto tu criterio. (Sospecho que ya me lo habías dicho en una ocasión; si no sabes de qué hablo, olvida este paréntesis).
Lo cierto es esto: me he metido, a gusto, en camisa de once varas. En futuras “crónicas” intentaré adentrarme más en el estilo de estos escritores…
Ahora mismo acabo de colgar el texto “firmado” por Carilda Oliver Labra. A ver qué te parece.
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