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Fidel Castro walks in Havana -- Venezuela's Chavez
27 Feb 2009 19:05:17 GMT
 Source: Reuters
CARACAS, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Cuba's ailing former leader Fidel Castro, not seen in public for years, appeared on the streets of Havana and people cried when they recognized him, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday.

Chavez, a close friend of the legendary revolutionary, spent several hours with Castro in Cuba last weekend and said he was in his best health since falling ill three years ago.

"Fidel went out and they saw him, Fidel walking in the streets in Havana, a miracle, the people cried," Chavez said during a service to commemorate a massacre in Venezuela,

"Of course he planned it so there would be no record of it. But there are some photos I have seen. I consider myself privileged," Chavez said. He did not say when Castro went out on the streets.

Castro, 82, has not appeared at any public event since being operated on for an undisclosed intestinal problem in July 2006, even missing the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution in January.

He was formally replaced by his younger brother, Raul Castro, as president of the communist-run Caribbean island last year.

(Reporting by Frank Jack Daniel, Editing by Saul Hudson and Frances Kerry)


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