Cuban president Raul Castro dismissed rumours today that his older brother Fidel Castro was at death's door, saying he is exercising and helping him in his duties.
"He is exercising, thinking a lot, reading a lot, assisting me and helping," Raul Castro told reporters at Havana airport where he was seeing off Argentine president Cristina Fernandez after her official visit to Cuba.
"Soon I'm going to make a trip to Europe. Do you think I could leave from here if Fidel was gravely ill?" he said.
Speculation about Fidel Castro's condition had risen in recent weeks after he stopped writing opinion columns and did not attend celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the revolution.
Reuters