Reuters: Chavez says Fidel Castro travels, health improving

[Eugene]

Chavez says Fidel Castro travels, health improving

2 hours, 38 minutes ago

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said
on Friday that Cuban leader Fidel Castro was walking about and making
nocturnal trips outside Havana, countering rumors the ailing 80-year-old
was dead.

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"He is walking about and goes out at night to visit the countryside, villages
and towns," Chavez told cocoa workers east of Caracas.

Latin American media simmered with speculation that Castro died at the
weekend, conjecturing Chavez had canceled appointments last Saturday
to say farewell.

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