Castro Essay Is Silent on His Health
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HAVANA, Aug. 26 -- Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro signed a lengthy essay published Sunday saluting a Cuban political figure but giving no hint of how he is feeling, at a time of persistent rumors of his death.
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Fidel Castro appeared more vigorous on Sunday in the first images of the Cuban leader to be broadcast on state television in four months, backing up reports that he has put his health crisis behind him.
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Fidel Castro said Wednesday he is not yet healthy enough to address Cuba's people in person and can't campaign for Sunday's parliamentary elections.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that his ailing ally, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, is recovering slowly from intestinal surgery but told him recently that he was prepared to die.
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Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro says he will not return to the presidency, in an letter published in the official press.
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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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Cuban President Fidel Castro is very ill and close to death, U.S. Intelligence chief John Negroponte said in an interview published on Friday.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro's long absence from public view has fueled wild rumors among his exiled opponents in Miami in recent weeks that he is dead, even one that Russian embalmers were at work preserving his body.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Wednesday he is not strong enough to speak in public more than 17 months after stomach surgery forced him to hand over power to his brother.
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Embargo or not, Fidel Castro's socialist paradise has quietly become a pharmaceutical powerhouse. (They're still working on the capitalism thing.) By Douglas Starr from Wired magazine.
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Fidel Castro said Tuesday that his health was stable after surgery, according to a statement read on state television, as the Communist government tried to impose a sense of normalcy on the island's first day in 47 years without Castro in charge.
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Fidel Castro looked alert and healthier in a video taped Friday, the first images released of the ailing 81-year-old leader in more than three months. In the images aired unexpectedly on state television Friday evening, Castro wore a red, blue and white jumpsuit with "F. Castro" in small block letters. The Cuban leader spoke slowly and softly and didn't always look the interviewer in the eye, but appeared to be thinking clearly.
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HAVANA - After Fidel Castro's first TV interview in three months, some Cubans said the ailing leader appeared healthier than he has in a long time. But in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, people greeted the new video with skepticism.
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A delegation of U.S. Congress members said on Sunday they were told by senior Cuban government officials during a visit there that ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is not dying, and does not have cancer.
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Speaking slowly and focusing on past memories rather than his recovery and future, a healthier looking Fidel Castro appeared on Cuban television Tuesday, giving the world its first long look at him since he fell ill and gave up power last summer.
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President Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez said yesterday that Fidel Castro is battling a "very serious illness" but is not dying of cancer. He said he spoke with the Cuban leader , that he is eating cautiously and is well enough to joke. "I'm very well informed," Ch&#xE1;vez said. The Cuban government insists Castro, 80, is recovering after intestinal surgery. ...
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The official word in Cuba is that Fidel Castro is still very much alive &#151; but you'd never know that on the streets of Miami.