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Cuban Leader Fidel Castro Trips and Falls, Breaks Arm and Knee
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| News Date | Thursday, October 21, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Fidel Castro, the longtime Cuban communist leader, tripped and fell at a graduation ceremony yesterday. He broke his right arm and left knee in the fall in Santa Clara, 174 miles east of the capital Havana, the Associated Press reported.
Videotape of the event showed Castro, 78, walking across a platform and missing a step, stumbling and falling face-forward onto the floor. Participants at the gathering rushed to his aid.
The leader spoke on state television immediately after the mishap at what AP described as a graduation of arts instructors, telling viewers he was ``all in one piece'' and that he would continue his work ``even if they put me in a cast,'' the Associated Press reported.
Castro has led the Caribbean nation since the 1959 revolution that put him in power. The Bush administration supports the 42-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, which is widely backed by the 350,000 Cuban-Americans living in Florida, a key state in Bush's re-election campaign.
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