CUBA / VENEZUELA : 22 Oct UPDATE: Fidel Blasts Media For Death Rumors; New Foto Of Fidel Castro Emerges After Florida Doctor Claimed Fidel Suffered Stroke.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/22/world/americas/cuba-castro-health/index.html?hpt=ila_c1

       Retired dictator Fidel Castro...is angry again...this time that the Western press has been  printing 'lies' that he is sick and dying.
       The anciano...now in his 88th year...published a letter on the state website  CUBADEBATE...denouncing the rumors spread by a Venezuelan doctor living in Naples Florida...that he had suffered a stroke...and was a virtual vegetable.
      To prove it...Fidel appears in a foto...holding a copy of Friday's GRANMA newspaper.
      Castro wrote he doesn't 'even remember what a headache is'...and that he is busy writing and studying.
      Exilios in Miami and Spain always love rumors that Fidel Castro is dead...or dying.
      After all for 50 years...the hated strongman...has dismissed them as gusanos/worms...and worse.

      A Venezuelan doctor told a Spanish newspaper that that Fidel had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage...that he has trouble speaking, eating and even recognizing people...in short ...that he was a vegetable.

      But it was former Venezuelan VP Elias Jaua...who says he had a 5 hour meeting with Castro at the famous Hotel Nacional in La Habana...and had a picture of Fidel partying in a van...to prove it.

       Before this media brouhaha...Castro was last seen in March...visiting with Pope Benedict 16 in La Habana.

      Most notably...the strongman neglected to send any message of congrats to close friend and benefactor Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...after his recent re-election.

     Castro's opinion columns in the state newspaper also ended abruptly in June.

     The doctor...Jose Marquina had speculated brother Raul was keeping him alive...and away from the public.
     AP reports that the same doctor has made some claims before...that were dead wrong.
     Marquina was wrong again.
    ORIG POST:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220258/Cuban-leader-Fidel-Castro-suffered-massive-stroke-just-weeks-live.html