Castro Rebuts CIA’s Analysis of His Health
Cuban President Fidel Castro dismissed a CIA assessment that he is suffering from Parkinson’s disease as a fabrication by his U.S. enemies who wish to see him dead.
“They say Castro has this or that illness. The last thing they invented is that I have Parkinson’s,” he said in a speech to University of Havana students. The 79-year-old spoke for more than five hours standing at a lectern.
“They kill me every day. The day that I really die, nobody will believe me,” he joked in the speech, which marked the 60th anniversary of the day he began his university studies.
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