Yesterday kicked off the official celebration of Fidel Castro‘s 80 years of life in La Habana, Cuba but the leader of the Caribbean nation was not at the Karl Marx theatre to blow out the candles on his cake. Porque? Just as many predicted, Fidel is allgedly still too ill to make any oublic appearances.

I direct myself to you, intellectuals and prestigious personalities of the world, with a dilemma,” said the note.

“I could not meet with you in a small locale, only in the Karl Marx Theater where all the visitors would fit and I was not yet in condition, according to the doctors, to face such a colossal encounter,” it added. The reading of the message was broadcast live on state television.

The thousands who gathered in la Habana, somne who traveled from all over parts of Cuba, gave the statement and Fidel, a standing ovation.

Anti-Castro activists are probably thrilled with the fact that el Comandante is still too sick to come out of the seclusion he has been in since the middle of this past summer. It fuels the rumour mill regarding the nature of Castro’s actual condition which come have said is terminal cancer.

Via / AOL News

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