[QUOTE]MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- The city of Miami is planning an official celebration at the Orange Bowl whenever Cuban president Fidel Castro dies.

Discussions by a committee appointed earlier this month by the city commission to plan the event have even covered issues such as a theme to be printed on T-shirts, what musicians would perform, the cost and how long the celebration would last.

Such a gathering has long been part of the city's plan for Castro's death, but firming up the specifics has been more urgent since Castro became ill last summer and turned over power to his brother, Raul.

City Commissioner Tomas Regalado, a Cuban American, came up with the idea of using the Orange Bowl, noting the stadium was the site of a speech by President Kennedy in 1961 promising a free Cuba. (Castro seized power in 1959.)

In the 1980s the Orange Bowl served as a camp for refugees from the Mariel boatlift from Cuba, he added.

"Basically, the only thing we're trying to do is have a venue, a giant venue ready for people, if they wish, to speak to the media, to show their emotions. It's not that we're doing an official death party," Regalado said Monday.

Former state Rep. Luis Morse stressed the need for an uplifting theme for the party -- one not preoccupied with a human being's passing.

Critics have accused the city of dictating where people should party, with many preferring to celebrate on the streets of Little Havana. The city says the Orange Bowl celebration would not preclude that.

"This is not a mandatory site," Regalado said of the Orange Bowl. "Just a place for people to gather."

Ramon Saul Sanchez, leader of the Miami-based Democracy Movement organization, worries about how a party to celebrate a man's death would be perceived by people outside the Cuban exile community.

Sanchez also pointed out that, even after Castro dies, his communist government still will be in place.

"The notion of a big party, I think, should be removed from all this," Sanchez said.

"Although everybody will be very happy that the dictator cannot continue to oppress us himself," he added, "I think everybody is still very sad because there are still prisons full of prisoners, many people executed, and families divided."
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Soooooo your going to party because some old guy kicks the bucket? What exactly does that do? I mean his brother will be in power, nothing will change in the way Cuba is run yet you party because one man dies. You party on the day of death of a man you all hate, a man you can't wait to go, a man who you accuse of countless crimes towards your people, a man who robbed others of their dignity. You call him a monster for this yet you party, you people don't realize that even in celebrating his death, the death of a tyrant you are still in a way celebrating him. And what backlash do you think this will bring onto those who are still in Cuba from it's new ruler Castro's brother? Who is rumored to be just like him if not worse. Don't you think your partying will anger him? Don't you think he will take it out on those still there? But why do you care about that, any reason to get drunk and party right?

When Castro dies, democracy will not be fed to Cuba. It will still be ruled by a dictator, just like it was with Castro. Only the ruler changes, not the rules.