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Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro walks in a garden on Oct. 19, in an image provided by Cubadebate.
By NBC News wire services -- Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dismissed reports that he was dead or near death in an article published on Monday in Cuba's state-run press.
He accused news agencies and enemies of Cuba of spreading "stupidities" about him, particularly a report from a Spanish newspaper last week that said he had suffered a massive stroke and was in a vegetative state.
"Birds of bad omen! I don't even remember what a headache is," he wrote.
The article in Communist Party newspaper Granma was accompanied by photographs (in Spanish) showing him walking outside on a sunny day on what appeared to be a farm. Full Story
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Fidel Castro holds up Friday's edition of Granma.
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Castro visiting a cultured field at an undisclosed location.
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A man in Havana on Oct. 22 reads the edition of Granma that features recent pics of Fidel Castro.
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Doesn't remember what a headace is? Right - that's why he's walking with a cane. Still the same swaggering, blustering bravado - when he dies and he will - what ever will he say then?
great man and a great leader
Even when Fidel dies he will not be dead.
Nor, regardless of any NEP reforms, will Cuba ever renounce socialism and embrace capitialism.
Fidel's "same swaggering, blustering bravado" is already the heritage of humanity.
Los hombres mueren, pero el partido es inmortal.