well goodbye then

This is one of my things that's accepted and indulged. Upon leaving a party or dinner or whatever and already having said goodbye and to signal stop dragging it out already I  put on a world-weary voice and accent of a Transylvania ghoul with a dead bored look and say, "How I do detest long dragged out desultory goodbyes." Then flick to a high pitched cheerful cheerleader voice and chirp a thoughtless, "goodbye."  The person I say that to returns the chirp, "goodbye" and spins around and separates without another word. It's directly and hurtfully rude. They followed you out the car to prolong the goodbye. But it's hilarious anyway because it works.

Kids so filled with glee, what do you think?  He reminds them of Catholic girls somehow. It doesn't make sense.

"Fidel Castro to US: you owe us millions"

"Castro wrote: "Cuba is owed compensation equivalent to damages, which total many millions of dollars, as our country has stated with irrefutable arguments and data in all of its speeches at the United Nations.""

He did not go into detail on precisely how much money he reckons Washington owes Havana. The Americans are also claiming compensation for US-owned property, such as real estate, that was confiscated when Castro took power.

Castro made no mention either of Kerry's visit to reopen the embassy...

Over the years, Fidel Castro has been a frequent contributor of essays to the communist party newspaper Granma and other media. Thursday's was his first piece since May 8.

"Writing is a way to be useful, if you keep in mind that we poor humans must be more and better educated in the face of the incredible ignorance that surrounds us all, except for researchers who use science to seek a satisfactory answer," Castro wrote.

Castro must have heard about Iran Sanctions Relief.

Cuban exiles in Florida say that Fidel Castro has died. Again.

Cuban exiles in Miami say they detect tension among close Castro family members and military circles.

Actually, EFE.com said exactly:

El exilio cubano en Miami ha detectado "tensión" entre familiares próximos a Fidel Castro y "círculos militares" en Cuba por los numerosos rumores que se han desatado en las últimas horas sobre la muerte del expresidente cubano.

Let's translate ourselves. It's fun. 

The exile Cuban in Miami has detected "tension" among family close to Fidel Castro and "circles military" in Cuba by the numerous rumors that have been untied in the last hours over the death of the ex-president Cuban.

Spanish goes like this in my mind:

But you get the idea. We should say "unhinged," "untethered," "unleashed" or "flying around" instead of "untied." 

But not again! Fidel Castro died again? Oh, no. 

There's more. 

Fuentes del exilio consultadas por EFE aseguraron hoy que la información que llega desde La Habana revela "tensión" entre los estamentos militares, así como en personas "vinculadas" a Fidel Castro por "nexos sanguíneos".

There are so many cognitives it is not even funny, and it is very repeaty, the second paragraph to the first. Like hieroglyphics, redundancy for clarity and for aesthetics, I suppose. You must take it in chunks, then flip it around. It reminds me of doing so many backflips off a diving board that dives straight in then seems unnatural.

Back to the second paragraph. 

Sources of exile consulted by EFE (an international news agency created by Spain's former minister of press and propaganda with 40 U.S. employees represented by News Media Guild, so you know this comes from Spain.) they assured that the information that came from Havana reveals "tension" among the establishment military, as well as people "linked" to Fidel Castro by "ties blood" 

This is where a touch of interpretation skill come in. It's why you wait to the end of the sentence. There are better ways of saying such things in the target language than straight word for word translation. It is why there is a pause when speeches are vocalized, why it appears that interpreters are behind. If they are not behind, if they are ahead as they are sometimes in sign, then you know they are working from script. And that is disconcerting because it challenges how you would do the interpreting. 

Again, in natural English: 

Exile sources consulted by EFE said Wednesday that the information coming from Havana reveals tension among the military establishment, as well as people related to Fidel Castro by blood ties. 

Rumors of Fidel Castro's death are like the Chevy Chase's old SNL Weekend Update catchphrase.

And in other news, Generalissimo Fidel Castro is still dead!  

EFE.com

http://www.efe.com/efe/noticias/espana/mundo/exilio-cubano-detecta-tension-entre-familiares-fidel-castro/1/4/2506589