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Article: Video shows Castro meeting with Chavez: Cuban leader says recovery from illness is far from being a lost battle
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- January 31, 2007
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HAVANA - A stronger-looking Fidel Castro said his recovery from an
intestinal ailment was "far from a lost battle" as state television
showed a video of him meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
The 10-minute video - aired Tuesday, almost six months to the day
after he temporarily gave up power - showed Castro standing and
appearing alert. State TV said the clip was shot on Monday, during
Chavez's previously unannounced visit to Havana.
The newest images - the first in three months - appeared aimed at
deflating the latest round of rumors about Castro's health as his
absence from power reached the half-year mark. The communist-run
government has kept Castro's condition and exact ...