Monday, March 11, 2013

Fidel Castro laments loss of 'best friend,' Chavez

Posted on Monday, 03.11.13

Fidel Castro laments loss of 'best friend,' Chavez
The Associated Press

HAVANA -- Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro has broken nearly a week of
silence since the death of friend and ally Hugo Chavez, calling the late
Venezuelan president Cuba's "best friend."

Castro says in an editorial published in Communist Party newspaper
Granma that Chavez's delicate health was well known, but news of his
passing March 5 nonetheless came as a shock.

The 86-year-old Castro has all but ceased penning his once-regular
columns known as "Reflections."

Last October he explained that he decided to do so because they were
taking up valuable space in state media that was needed for other purposes.

His column on Chavez was carried Monday in Granma and other official
newspapers.

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