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Fidel Castro is "lucid" and mentally is "at full capacity," Honduran
President Manuel Zelaya said Thursday after a two-day visit to Havana.
Zelaya did not meet with Castro during his visit but said he spoke with the
Cuban leader by telephone for about half an hour on Wednesday.
"He has a very firm voice ... and he is lucid, extremely lucid," Zelaya told
reporters in Honduras. "Definitely, he is a person who is at full capacity,
and I can testify to that."
Castro, 81, has not appeared in public since announcing on July 31, 2006,
that emergency intestinal surgery was forcing him to step down in favor of a
provisional government headed by his 76-year-old brother, Raul. He has
appeared in a series of videos and photographs.
Zelaya's trip was the first official visit by a Honduran president to the
island in 46 years, after Honduras broke off relations with Cuba in 1961.
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