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Fidel Castro announces retirement
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| Last Edited | RBH Feb 19, 2008 01:54am |
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| Media | TV News - British Broadcasting Corporation BBC News |
| News Date | Tuesday, February 19, 2008 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro has announced he will not return to the presidency in a letter published by official Communist Party paper, Granma.
"I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the Council of state and commander in chief," he wrote in the letter.
Mr Castro handed over power temporarily to his brother, Raul, in July 2006 when he underwent intestinal surgery.
The 81-year-old has ruled Cuba since leading a communist revolution in 1959.
In December, Mr Castro indicated that he could possibly step down in favour of a younger generation. |
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