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Steven Taylor | Saturday, June 2, 2007

Cross-posted from PoliBlog:

Via the BBC: Castro almost ‘fully recovered’

Cuban President Fidel Castro has almost completely recovered from the stomach surgery he had last year, says the head of the country’s national assembly.

Speaking in a US TV interview Ricardo Alarcon gave no indication of when the Cuban leader might return to power.

But he said Mr Castro was over the worst after a series of operations, including what he described as very delicate surgery.

Mr Alarcon also said Mr Castro was reading and writing a lot.

The Cuban leader has not been seen in public since undergoing intestinal surgery in July 2006 and has temporarily ceded power to his brother Raul.

I love whole he is kinda, sorta, almost fully-ish recovere hedging. Is it so Soviet Union circa 1982–makes me nostalgic. For example:

“I think, in a way, he practically has fully recovered,” Mr Alarcon told the CNN network.

Classic.

About the Author: Steven is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Troy University in Alabama. He is the author of the book Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia, forthcoming from University of New England Press and the contributing editor on Colombia to the Library of Congress’s Handbook of Latin American Studies. He has his PhD from the University of Texas in Austin and a BA from the University of California at Irvine. He does most of his blogging at PoliBlog, which he started in February 2003.