05 Jun 2007 22:53:07 GMT
Source: Reuters
June 5 (Reuters) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro appeared on Cuban
television on Tuesday in the first interview since bowel surgery
sidelined him from government 10 months ago.
Castro, 80, has not appeared in public since he last gave a speech on
July 26, but he has been seen in pictures and video of private meetings
with foreign visitors.
Two months ago, he took to writing scathing attacks on U.S. President
George W. Bush from his convalescence quarters. Here are some of the
main events in his re-emergence:
July 31, 2006 - Cuba announces that Castro had undergone complicated
intestinal surgery and handed over provisional power to his brother Raul.
Aug 14, 2006 - Cubans see first images of Castro in hospital bed during
visit by Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez: he was being
drip-fed and looked very weak.
Sept 14-16, 2006 - Castro fails to appear at the summit of Non-Aligned
developing nations in Havana; photos in state media showed him receiving
some foreign leaders in a robe.
Oct. 28, 2006 - Cubans shocked by video images showing Castro in track
suit looking weak and walking with difficulty.
Jan. 30, 2007 - A six-minute video shows Castro had put on weight, but
still looked frail, during a meeting with Chavez. Castro was seen taking
a sip of orange juice.
Feb. 27, 2007 - Upbeat Castro jokes and chats with his Venezuelan ally
in a surprise 32-minute call-in to Chavez's radio program.
March 20, 2007 - First outdoor photograph of Castro strolling in a
hospital garden with Nobel prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
published in Colombian newspaper El Tiempo.
March 28, 2007 - Castro publishes first article criticizing Bush for
threatening the food supplies for the world's poor with his plans to use
cereals for biofuels.
April 21, 2007 - Chinese television airs brief footage of Castro, still
in hospital, talking animatedly with a member of China's Communist Party
Politburo, Wu Guanzheng.
June 3, 2007 - Castro, standing in a track suit, looks healthier and
more alert in a two-minute video of his meeting with Vietnamese
Communist Party chief Nong Duc Manh.
June 5, 2007 - Cuban television airs Castro interview.
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