Castro refused anaesthetic so he could stay in charge
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Demonstrating he retains firm control over Cuba after fracturing his knee and arm in a fall, President Fidel Castro told of conducting government business by mobile phone during an ambulance ride and later refusing general anaesthesia.
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Fidel Castro has become so glued to the television set watching the Pan-American Games unfolding in Brazil that he is forgetting to take his pills.
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Cuban authorities denied entry to a conservative Spanish politician and two Dutch colleagues hoping to meet with dissidents, Spain's Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
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Fidel Castro said Friday that as a young man he hoped to cling to power but has long since outgrown the urge, the latest ambiguous statement about his future at the helm of the country he has ruled for nearly five decades.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday that he will not return to lead the country, retiring as head of state 49 years after he seized power in an armed revolution.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro suggested on Monday that he will not hold on to power or obstruct the rise of younger leaders, in a letter read on Cuban television.
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Demonstrating he retains firm control over Cuba after fracturing his knee and arm in a fall at a public event, President Fidel Castro told of conducting government business by cellular phone during an ambulance ride and later refusing general anesthesia.
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Fidel Castro defied America for nearly half a century, resisting U.S. attempts to topple him while wielding almost absolute control over the communist state he built just 90 miles south of Florida. He resigned as president Tuesday, two years after falling ill and temporarily ceding power.
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Convalescing Cuban President Fidel Castro said on Sunday the man the United States and Mafia contracted to poison him in the early 1960s would not have been able to get close enough to him to be successful.
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Cuban officials said Saturday that Fidel Castro was steadily recovering from surgery and the government was still preparing for its worst-case scenario: an attack by government opponents taking advantage of the leader's health crisis.
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The Cuban government has provided no details on Fidel Castro's health and released no pictures of the leader since it announced Monday night that he was having surgery and handing power to his brother.
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Fidel Castro did not make an appearance at the inauguration of an oil refinery, as had been speculated.
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Fidel Castro gave his first television interview for three months yesterday, dispelling speculation that he was close to death or even that he had died.
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Ailing leader Fidel Castro said in a letter read on state television Monday that he does not intend to cling to power forever
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President Fidel Castro told his  countrymen in a letter published on Friday that he remained  fully in command of Cuba, even while undergoing surgery to  rebuild his knee shattered in a fall.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro took on front-running U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday, accusing him of lying about Cubans torturing American prisoners of war in Vietnam.
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HAVANA - Cuban President Fidel Castro broke his left knee and right arm in a fall Wednesday night, but urged the Caribbean country&#39;s 11 million people to stay calm.