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By Anthony Boadle | Reuters
Cuban leader Fidel Castro gave his first television interview in more than three months on Friday, state television said, easing speculation that the ailing revolutionary had died or suffered a relapse.
Castro, 81, speaking slowly, appeared little changed from the last time he gave an interview to Cuban state television in early June.
Television presenter Randy Alonso said the nearly hour-long taped interview, which aired on Friday evening, took place earlier in the day.
Castro, who took power in a 1959 revolution, handed over control to his brother Raul Castro on July 31, 2006 after he underwent emergency intestinal surgery, and he has not appeared in public since then.
He has been seen in occasional photographs and videos with visiting foreign leaders and has produced a steady of columns and essays printed by state media over the past six months.
But his failure to appear on his birthday on August 13 fueled already rampant rumors in Miami—the heartland of exiled opposition to his near five-decade-long rule—that he had had a major health setback, was on his deathbed or had already died.
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And the BBC says Castro looks healthy in new video. Healthy? I wouldn’t go so far as to say healthy.
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Well, looks like Castro may have been actually writing the Reflections and this video certainly convinces me that it is current.
I am surprised by his health. Of course he is certainly not healthy enough to do much other than ramble on. I don’t see him being “consulted” too much by Raul’s government but his icon status lives on.
I imagine this is more of a sad day in Cuba than a happy day.
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