AVANA (Reuters) – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro held his second lengthy public event in a week, this time a nine-hour session with writers and intellectuals, Cuban state media said on Saturday, in another showing he is doing well after serious health problems.
“Fidel with intellectuals: More than nine hours of dialogue with the infinite,” said the headline on government website Cubadebate.cu.
The story described the meeting in which representatives from 22 countries discussed topics...Read Full Story
HAVANA (Reuters) – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro held his second lengthy public event in a week, this time a nine-hour session with writers and intellectuals, Cuban state media said on Saturday, in another showing he is doing well after serious health problems. “Fidel with intellectuals: More than nine hours of dialogue with the infinite,” [...]Read Full Story
HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro held his second lengthy public event in a week, this time a nine-hour session with writers and intellectuals, Cuban state media said on Saturday, in another showing he is doing well after serious health problems.Read Full Story
HAVANA (Reuters) - President Raul Castro defended Cuba's one-party political system as a bulwark against U.S. imperialism and said it would remain as it is in a speech on Sunday to a Communist Party conference. He also said previously announced plans to put term limits on the country's leaders were not fully official, but could gradually go ahead. This weekend's conference, which is the first in the party's history, came amid wide-ranging reforms that have given Cubans the right to open small...Read Full Story
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro held his second lengthy public event in a week, this time a nine-hour session with writers and intellectuals, Cuban state media said on Saturday, in another showing he is doing well after serious health problems.
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Last Saturday, he met with Cuban officials and intellectuals and presented the two volumes of an autobiography entitled "Guerrilla Man of Time." Fidel Castro handed over power in 2006 to his brother Raul Castro, for health reasons.
Follow politics in Cuba and Fidel Castro in particular.
Fidel's full name is Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz and he was the President of Cuba.
After commanding the revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista in 1959, he held the title of Prime Minister of Cuba until 1976, when he became president of the Council of State as well as of the...more
Follow politics in Cuba and Fidel Castro in particular.
Fidel's full name is Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz and he was the President of Cuba.
After commanding the revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista in 1959, he held the title of Prime Minister of Cuba until 1976, when he became president of the Council of State as well as of the Council of Ministers. Castro became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in 1965, and led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist republic.
As president he also held the supreme military rank of Comandante en Jefe of the Cuban armed forces.
On July 31, 2006, Castro, after undergoing intestinal surgery, transferred his responsibilities to the vice-president, his younger brother Raúl.