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Cuban-American
lawmaker reacts to Castro images
29 October 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Cuban-American lawmaker said Sunday that recently
released images of ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro meant little for the
island's future.
Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said that Castro, who temporarily
ceded power to his brother Raul in July following intestinal surgery, is
"certainly around, and we don't think there's going to be a change,
whether it's Fidel or Raul or anybody else who's part of the communist
infrastructure."
"What we want is free elections in Cuba, freedom for political prisoners
and a multiparty system," the lawmaker said on CNN's "Late Edition."
"There's no role for Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, in that scenario."
Cuba's state-run media published photographs Sunday of Fidel Castro
standing and talking on the phone, a day after he appeared in a video to
dispel rumors he was on his deathbed.
The 80-year-old leader had not been seen since mid-September when
photographs of him receiving world leaders at a summit in Havana were
released.
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