Caracas, Venezuela — Something wasn’t quite right, Hugo Chavez recounted. And the Venezuelan president’s mentor, 84-year-old Fidel Castro, noticed straight away.
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Castro then “began to question me, like a father questions a son,” Chavez said in his account of their meeting in Havana last month; he said he “confessed” his ailments as if he were Castro’s patient.
At the Cuban revolutionary’s insistence, Chavez then went under the scalpel to remove a malignant tumor. Later, Castro brought peanut butter he himself had made and gabbed with a recovering Chavez about world affairs. “Fidel is like a saint,” Chavez told Cuban state television.
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