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Managua – Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has
been convalescing from a serious intestinal
ailment since July 2006, is doing much
better and is even walking around the
streets of Havana, Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega said on the weekend.
“It’s incredible how Fidel has been
recuperating. He’s in much better shape now.
I saw him,” said Ortega in remarks collected
Sunday on the Nicaraguan government Web site
El Pueblo President, which – however – did
not publish any photographs from the meeting
between the two men last Friday.
The Sandinista leader met with Castro on
Friday in Havana during his first official
visit to the communist island since he won a
second term in office in January 2007.
Ortega said that Castro, who has not made a
formal public appearance since he got sick,
told him on Friday that he takes walks
through “stretches of the city of Havana.”
“Absolutely, he was walking around. He’s
recovering, thank God, and every day he’s
writing and is always interested in learning
(what’s going on in) Nicaragua,” Ortega
said.
In addition, the Nicaraguan leader said that
the last time he had seen the
now-82-year-old Cuban was in June 2007 in
Havana during an unofficial visit he made to
the island in the course of an international
tour that took him to Venezuela, Algeria,
Libya, Iran and Senegal.
Ortega said that Castro asked him “how the
struggle is going in Nicaragua” and how the
literacy program Cuba is promoting in the
Central American country is faring.
The Nicaraguan leader also said he was
“happy” and “satisfied” with his meeting
with Castro and with his official visit to
the island, which ended on Saturday. |
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