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Updates:

Associated Press came out with a story this week from the “Miami Herald” Titled ‘Castro Interview to Air Tuesday night’ I thought some of the information following was interesting enough to pass along.

HAVANA , CUBA

Cuban television has announced it will broadcast an interview with ailing leader Fidel Castro Tuesday evening. A clip from the recorded interview was shown Monday on state television to promote the full program, Castro's first formal interview since taking ill 10 months ago. The brief clip showed Castro and the host of the nightly Round Table TV program, Randy Alonso, sitting across from each other in rattan chairs in an interview evidently conducted over the weekend around the same time Castro met the visiting Vietnamese Communist Party chief. Alonso said his interview with 80-year-old Cuban leader would be shown on the same show. In the interview, Castro comments on his meeting with the visiting Vietnamese delegation and ''other themes of interest,'' Alonso said. Official photographs and a videotape from Castro's two-hour meeting Saturday with Vietnam 's Nong Duc Manh were released by the government on Sunday. Castro looked stronger and more vibrant in the two-and-a-half-minute clip with Manh, in which he wears a red track suit. The new images of Castro meeting with Manh were the first official videotape of the ailing leader released since a meeting in Havana in late January with his friend and ally Hugo Chavez, and the first still photographs released of him since a meeting with the Chinese Communist Party leader Wu Guanzheng in April. Castro has not been seen in public since he announced on July 31 that he had undergone emergency intestinal surgery and was temporarily ceding power to his brother Raul, the Defense Minister, who turned 76 on Sunday. Castro's exact ailment and condition remain state secrets, but he is largely believed to suffer from diverticular disease, which forms sacs in the colon that can become inflamed and bleed. Senior Cuban officials have repeatedly said Castro is on the mend.

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