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Article: VOA NEWS: QUESTIONS MOUNT CONCERNING CUBAN LEADER FIDEL CASTRO

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August 10, 2006
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The Voice of America issued the following story:

By Michael Bowman

It has been more than 10 days since Cuba announced that President Fidel Castro had undergone gastrointestinal surgery and temporarily transferred executive authority to his brother, Raul. Since then, there has been no independent confirmation of Mr. Castro's state of health. The lack of information has generated suspense and much conjecture about the condition of world's longest-serving president, who turns 80 Sunday. Cuban officials have told the island's government-controlled news media that Fidel Castro's health condition is being kept as a state secret, given what they describe as U.S. threats and plots to forcibly ...

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