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Judi Lynn

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9. Update: Cuba releases 1st public letter from Fidel Castro in months in wake of health rumours

Fri Oct 19, 2012, 01:48 AM

Oct 2012

Cuba releases 1st public letter from Fidel Castro in months in wake of health rumours
By Peter Orsi, The Associated Press October 18, 2012

HAVANA - Cuban news media on Thursday published the first new writing in months from retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

The letter, which was dated Wednesday, comes in the wake of rumours that prompted relatives in both Cuba and Miami to deny that the health of the 86-year-old ex-president was critical.

Castro has not been seen in public since video images showed him greeting a visiting Pope Benedict XVI in late March, and the last of his essays known as "Reflections" was published June 19.

In the letter published by the Communist Party daily Granma, Castro congratulated students of a Cuban medical institute on its 50th anniversary and recalled how just days after it opened in 1962, it was converted into an anti-aircraft installation during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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BREAKING from Little Havana (via a Ven. blogger): Fidel Castro DEAD or about to be. [View all] Mika Oct 2012 OP

wow, they're really into it this time! flamingdem Oct 2012 #1

I've heard this many time over the decades. RandySF Oct 2012 #2

+1 hrmjustin Oct 2012 #3

In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. n/t PoliticAverse Oct 2012 #4

I've heard of him being on his deathbed many times over the years. LeftofObama Oct 2012 #5

I hope he will come through again by continuing to live as he has so many times Judi Lynn Oct 2012 #6

doesnt really matter blueknight Oct 2012 #7

Saw a headline a day or two ago which quoted Fidel Castro's son, Fidel (Fidelito), Judi Lynn Oct 2012 #8

Update: Cuba releases 1st public letter from Fidel Castro in months in wake of health rumours Judi Lynn Oct 2012 #9

On Facebook I read a poignant thread between Cuban Americans in which flamingdem Oct 2012 #10

Interesting! There has to be some real respect there, or that idea would never have been mentioned. Judi Lynn Oct 2012 #11

They were saying some of flamingdem Oct 2012 #12

hmmm....I am interested in hearing about the Cubaness and saving Cuba from homogenization Bacchus4.0 Oct 2012 #13

I think the risk for over a century is that Cuba would be absorbed into the USA flamingdem Oct 2012 #14

Darn, I wanted to have a sit down with him one day. joshcryer Oct 2012 #15

Maybe not just yet: "Fidel Castro alive and well : Chavez aide" Judi Lynn Oct 2012 #16

I hope that the media gets a hint not to listen to doctors in Naples flamingdem Oct 2012 #17