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Chavez says Castro 'almost jogging'
(AP)
Updated: 2007-01-25 09:58
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that
his ailing friend Fidel Castro is recovering and has been up and walking
- in fact "almost jogging"- in recent days.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez holds up a letter signed by Cuba's
President Fidel Castro, during a meeting with Cuba's Vice-President
Carlos Lage at Miraflores Palace in Caracas January 24, 2007. [Reuters]
Chavez said he was pleased to hear from Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage
that the 80-year-old Cuban leader was making a recovery. Lage, after
meeting with Chavez, said: "We will have Fidel and we will have Raul for
a lot more time."
Their hopeful remarks came less than a week after Chavez said Castro was
"battling for his life."
"Lage told me that Fidel walked I don't know how many minutes yesterday,"
Chavez said Wednesday, noting he suspected Castro was watching his speech
on television. "He's walking more than me, almost jogging. Maybe he's
walking while watching us."
Chavez has regularly reported in generalities on Castro's health since
July 31, when the Cuban leader announced he was temporarily stepping
aside while he recovered from an operation and was provisionally ceding
power to his brother Raul.
Chavez held up a letter and said, "I'm going to show you something, for
those who say that Fidel is dying, that he can't talk, that he can't
move."
The TV camera zoomed in on the letter and on Castro's signature in black
ink. "Look closely at the strokes of the signature. We are extremely
happy, Fidel, about the news of your recuperation."
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