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Castro does not have cancer, Chavez says
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Castro does not have cancer, Chavez says
Cuban leader Fidel Castro does not have cancer, but is fighting a “great battle” against a “very serious” illness, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said recently.
In the most extensive account of Castro’s condition following weeks of rumors that he has cancer or is even dead, Chavez said he remained optimistic and that his close ally had been in good spirits when they spoke by telephone on Thursday.
“Some comments have come out, that Fidel has a terminal cancer – Fidel does not have cancer,” Chavez told supporters in a celebration of his December 3 reelection.
Castro, a close ally of Chavez, temporarily stepped aside in July following intestinal surgery after maintaining more than four decades of resistance to Washington and inspiring a generation of
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