Castro suggests he will not hold on 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.
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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 told his countrymen in a letter published yesterday that he remained fully in command of Cuba, even while undergoing surgery to rebuild his knee shattered in a fall.
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Ailing leader Fidel Castro said in a letter read on state television Monday that he does not intend to cling to power forever
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro says he is recovering from several intestinal operations that had him on a drip for months, but has given no sign he plans to resume power.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro gave his first television interview in more than three months on Friday following speculation in recent weeks that he might be on his death bed.
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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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The ailing Cuban president said 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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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro suggests for the first time that he may step down from power.
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President Fidel Castro fell, possibly breaking his leg, after giving a graduation speech Wednesday in the central Cuban city of Santa Clara.
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HAVANA -- Fidel Castro failed to attend a military parade yesterday marking the 50th anniversary of the date he and his rebels launched their revolution, fueling speculation that the ailing Cuban leader may not return to power.
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Fidel Castro said Wednesday he is not yet healthy enough to speak to Cuba's masses in person and can't campaign for Sunday's parliamentary elections.
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Convalescing Cuban President Fidel Castro said on Sunday 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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Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro sent a written message to the National Assembly on Friday saying he had "clung" to power in his younger days, but that life had taught him to change his attitude.
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Taking pains to demonstrate that he retains firm control over Cuba after fracturing his knee and arm in a fall at a public event, President Fidel Castro says
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Ailing leader Fidel Castro said in a letter read on state television Monday that he does not intend to cling to power forever or stand in the way of a younger generation, but invoked the example of a renowned Brazilian architect who is still working at 100.
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Looking gaunt -- but appearing lucid -- ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro spoke about a variety of issues in a taped interview that aired on Cuban state television Friday.