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Cuban President Fidel Castro has not made a public appearance in Cuba for more than a year, following a series of surgeries that left him weakened and placed him on a very long, slow path to recovery. While on that path, he ceded temporary leadership to others, with the top post going to his brother Raul (See NotiCen, 2006-08-13). These events have led to intense speculation in the US and elsewhere on the probability of his return to office and to power. On Dec. 2, a first small step in the direction of answering the question of the revolutionary leader's return to power was taken, with the nomination of Fidel Castro to the list of candidates for election to the Asamblea Nacional.
The nomination does not in itself signal Fidel's return to active duty as head of the Cuban government, but his exclusion from the list would have meant, said analysts, his formal separation from...
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