Castro's health 'excellent': Cuban government
Mon Oct 17, 3:57 PM ET
Cuban President Fidel Castro, 79, is in excellent health, the head of
Cuba's legislature said, denying that illness explained his absence from
an Ibero American summit.
"He enjoys excellent health, which is enviable," said Ricardo Alarcon,
president of Cuba's National Assembly, after a reporter asked about
Castro's decision not to attend the summit of leaders from Spanish- and
Portuguese-speaking countries with leaders of Spain and Portugal in
Salamanca, Spain over the weekend.
Expectations were high that Castro would attend the summit, which he has
not attended since 2000, in Panama, where anti-Castro militants plotted
to bomb him.
Since then, Castro fell down steps to a dais, in 2004, limiting use of
his arm.
Cuba's government announced at the last minute that it would not attend
so that it could better coordinate aid missions to Central America and
Pakistan, where Cuban doctors are helping with natural disaster victims.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051017/en_afp/cubacastrohealth_051017195745
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