Castro feels 'very well', hosts Garcia Marquez
IANS Wednesday 14th March, 2007
Cuban President Fidel Castro said he feels 'very well' and received a
visit from renowned Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, according
to his comments published by the official daily Granma Wednesday.
'I am very well, I have followed everything closely,' Castro told his
Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in a phone conversation late Monday,
the Granma report said.
Castro, 80, temporarily gave up power on the communist island almost
eight months ago for health reasons. His brother Raul is currently
acting as Cuban leader.
'This morning I had a visit from Gabo, who showed up here,' the Cuban
president said, referring to Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize for
Literature laureate and author of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'.
Garcia Marquez is a personal friend of Castro and travelled to Cuba last
week.
Castro told Chavez that he 'did not miss one detail' of the Venezuelan
president's regional tour, which took him to Argentina, Bolivia,
Nicaragua, Jamaica and Haiti to counter a regional tour by US President
George W. Bush to Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico.
Chavez was in Haiti at the time of the conversation, and Castro also
spoke with Rene Preval, president of the Caribbean country, which is the
poorest nation in the region.
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