Castro hints he will not cling to power
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has not been seen in public for 16 months, suggested on Monday he might give up his formal leadership posts -- the first time he has spoken of his possible retirement since he fell ill.
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The State Department said Tuesday that Castro's departure won't lead to a change in policy or the lifting of the embargo.
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Fidel Castro revealed Thursday that he thought he was dying when he fell seriously ill in July 2006, and he hastily made plans to give up power as doctors fought to save his life.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday that he will not return to lead the country as president, retiring as head of state 49 years after he seized power in an armed revolution.
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Ailing leader Fidel Castro on Monday denied U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain's claim that Cuban agents helped torture American prisoners of war in Vietnam in the 1960s, calling the assertion "a strange legend."
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Fidel Castro says he won't stand in the way of younger people who can lead Cuba, but he also insists on being "of consequence" until the end of his life. So it goes with the ailing 81-year-old Â eager to see others keep up the revolution but reluctant to let go of power.
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Washington has declined to wish Fidel Castro a speedy recovery, with some officials joking that they preferred to hear of a &quot;different kind of fall&quot;.
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HAVANA -- President Fidel Castro of Cuba said yesterday that the man the United States and Mafia contracted to poison him in the early 1960s would not have been able to get close enough to him to be successful.
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 17 -- Fidel Castro, whose poor health and mysterious 17-month departure from public life have thrown the future of communist Cuba into doubt, suggested Monday that he may not return to power, according to a wire report.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro appeared on television Monday with an arm sling to give weight to an announcement on the ban of transactions in US dollars in his country.
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Demonstrating he retains firm control over Cuba after fracturing his knee and arm in a fall at a public event, President Fidel Castro told of conducting government business by cellular phone during an ambulance ride and later refusing general anesthesia.
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Cubans are increasingly talking in the past tense about Fidel Castro, the man who governed their lives for 47 years.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday that he will not return to lead the country, retiring as head of state 49 years after he seized power in an armed revolution.
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Communist Cuba will not follow China and   open up to private businesses even if Cuban leader Fidel Castro   is too ill to lead the nation again, Economy Minister Jose Luis   Rodriguez said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush issued a stern warning yesterday that the United States will not accept a political transition in Cuba in which power merely shifts from one Castro brother to another rather than to the Cuban people.
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HAVANA - Cuban President Fidel Castro broke his left knee and right arm in a fall Wednesday night, but urged the Caribbean country&#39;s 11 million people to stay calm.
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Raul Castro, Cuba's likely new leader after his ailing brother Fidel Castro bowed out on Tuesday, is a pragmatist more concerned with putting food on Cuban tables than spreading revolution abroad.