Cuba releases 1st public letter from Fidel Castro in months in wake of health rumours

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Source: Associated Press

Cuba releases 1st public letter from Fidel Castro in months in wake of health rumours
By Peter Orsi, The Associated Press October 18, 2012

HAVANA - Cuban news media on Thursday published the first new writing in months from retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

The letter, which was dated Wednesday, comes in the wake of rumours that prompted relatives in both Cuba and Miami to deny that the health of the 86-year-old ex-president was critical.

Castro has not been seen in public since video images showed him greeting a visiting Pope Benedict XVI in late March, and the last of his essays known as "Reflections" was published June 19.

In the letter published by the Communist Party daily Granma, Castro congratulated students of a Cuban medical institute on its 50th anniversary and recalled how just days after it opened in 1962, it was converted into an anti-aircraft installation during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Cuba releases 1st public letter from Fidel Castro in months in wake of health rumours (Original post)	Judi Lynn	Oct 2012	OP
The rumor monger is the same person who said Hugo Chavez's cancer	flamingdem	Oct 2012	#1
Exactly like the Herald, isn't it? They are so far from reliable on any Cuba topic. n/t	Judi Lynn	Oct 2012	#2
After thinking about it a bit longer, a doctor in Naples can't possibly know	Judi Lynn	Oct 2012	#3
Please refer to the first post on this news from Adenoid_Hynkel:	Judi Lynn	Oct 2012	#4
Locking - duplicate thread	muriel_volestrangler	Oct 2012	#5

Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Oct 19, 2012, 01:58 AM

flamingdem (23,277 posts)

1. The rumor monger is the same person who said Hugo Chavez's cancer

had spread and that he was on his death throes. He's a doctor in Naples, FL
where I'm sure they just know everything going on in Havana! Not!

This doctor made a name for himself at that time - and that was wrong so
it's not much to him to try another rumor, what's funny is that the Miami
Herald has printed this as a news story!

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Response to flamingdem (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 19, 2012, 02:04 AM

Judi Lynn (78,136 posts)

2. Exactly like the Herald, isn't it? They are so far from reliable on any Cuba topic. n/t

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Response to flamingdem (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 19, 2012, 04:18 AM

Judi Lynn (78,136 posts)

3. After thinking about it a bit longer, a doctor in Naples can't possibly know

a thing about Fidel Castro's health, unless Fidel Castro's doctors think it would be just fine to go yammering about his personal information to the same people who've tried to kill him since Cuba's revolution!

The longer you think about it, the more obnoxious it seems.

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Oct 19, 2012, 04:52 AM

Judi Lynn (78,136 posts)

4. Please refer to the first post on this news from Adenoid_Hynkel:

Adenoid_Hynkel had this news Thursday morning at 5:42 a.m., and I completely misssed it. I'd say he really, REALLY got there first.

Link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014270612

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Oct 19, 2012, 04:56 AM

muriel_volestrangler (65,827 posts)

5. Locking - duplicate thread

as you say in #4, this is the same messages that are covered in this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014270612

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