There Is Fidel for Long Time: Tomas Borge
"There is Fidel Castro for a long time," assured Nicaraguan Tomas Borge, the only survivor of the founders of the National Sandinista Liberation Front (FSLN) when he expressed his joy for the visible recovery of the Cuban leader.

Borge stated that Fidel Castro will return to fight other new battles after being submitted to an intestinal surgical operation in July 2006.

He said he saw Fidel smiling, on his feet, together with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez Frias, in a video tape broadcast by the Cuban television Tuesday.

The Nicaraguan leader took part in an activity celebrated in the Managua Mayor Office together with a group of 41 Nicaraguan patients who went to Havana Wednesday to be submitted to surgical operations on their eyes, as part of the Operation Miracle.

This is the 31st flight going to Havana from Managua, since Nicaragua started to get the benefits of the Operation Miracle, a program fostered by Cuba and Venezuela to operate 6 million poor Latin Americans in 10 years.

In the case of Nicaragua, there are 1,500 people who have recuperated their own vision for free, and another 600 were operated in Caracas, as Reverend Sixto Ulloa, coordinator of the program in Nicaragua, told Prensa Latina.

In the activity, the work of Cuba's chargé d'affaires in Nicaragua Manuel Guillot, who concludes his diplomatic mission in the Central American nation, after 5 years in his post, was recognized.

Borge delivered the Cuban diplomat the Carlos Fonseca Amador Order, one of the highest FSLN decorations, by decree signed by President Daniel Ortega, and the Nicaraguan Association of Democratic Mayors gave Guillot two plaques with their recognition for his work and support.