Bolivia's Morales Visits "Very Lucid" Fidel Castro
HAVANA (AFP)--Bolivian President Evo Morales met Cuba's Fidel Castro here late
Thursday and said the ailing revolutionary icon was "very lucid" and looking
much "stronger" than last year.
"He appeared very lucid, very wise and stronger, because after my previous
visit, months back, I was worried. But now I know that Fidel is feeling very
well," Morales told reporters shortly before leaving Havana after a one-day
working visit to the island nation.
The Bolivian chief executive, a close ally of communist-run Cuba, was also
received by Castro on his previous trip in May 2008. He stressed after his
latest two-hour meeting that the former Cuban president, 82, was "as always,
preoccupied with politics," society and economics.
Castro has been hampered by health problems and formally handed over power to
his brother Raul, 77, in early 2008, but he regularly publishes comments in
state media.
Morales also met President Raul Castro to discuss bilateral cooperation,
attended a conference at the University of Havana and played a game of soccer
with Bolivians studying medicine in Cuba.
About 2,000 Cubans work in Bolivia, South America's poorest nation, on health
and educational programs, official data show, while some 5,000 Bolivians study
medicine in Cuba.
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