Cuba's Castro has operation, delegates power
Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:31pm ET169
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Fidel Castro underwent intestinal
surgery on Monday and delegated government functions provisionally to
his younger brother Raul Castro, the government said in a televised
statement signed by the Cuban leader.
Castro, who turns 80 on August 13 and has led Cuba since a 1959
revolution, delegated his posts as first secretary of the ruling
Communist Party, commander in chief of the armed forces and president of
the executive council of state to his brother.
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