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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.

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For those hoping (and for those not) for a Fidel Castro comeback, both the US and Cuban officials are telling us not to hold our breath. US officials, claiming to base their prognosis on pictures (and not on inside on the ground spy info), think that Fidel has terminal cancer of the colon, stomach or pancreas and that this new year may be his last. Even Cuban officials have backed down from earlier predictions that put Castro back in power early next month, now refusing to speculate as to when or even if he will be back.

Fidel certainly doesn’t look healthy in recent pics and one couldn’t put it past the U.S. to exagerate or Cuba to downplay the real situation.

Image and Story Via / CNN.com