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Cuba's Castro appears on state TV
Oct. 28, 2006. 09:43 PM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HAVANA — Cuban President Fidel Castro made his first public appearance in more than a month, walking and defiantly addressing recent rumours of his death in a video aired Saturday on state television.
The 80-year-old Cuban leader, who temporarily ceded power to his brother Raul in July following intestinal surgery, appeared thin and tired but read a newspaper in a loud voice and was shown walking slowly but steadily in an unidentified room.
“They’ve declared me moribund prematurely,” he said, holding a copy of Saturday’s edition of Granma, the Cuban Communist party daily newspaper.