Caracas (Venezuela): Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said on Friday that Cuban leader Fidel Castro is up and about again, taking trips at night into the countryside as he recovers from surgery.
''He is walking around already and goes out at night to tour the countryside, towns and cities. I'm soon going to go see you, Fidel,'' Chavez said during a speech to cacao producers in Venezuela on Friday.
After nearly a half-century in office, Castro temporarily ceded power to his brother Raul in July after undergoing intestinal surgery.
The Cuban government has treated his ailment as a state secret, and the lack of information has recently sparked a number of rumors that Castro may have died.
Castro has not appeared publicly since July 26, and no new photographs of him have been released for more than a month. He was last shown receiving private visits by world leaders during the Nonaligned Movement summit in Havana in mid-September.
Meanwhile Chavez, a close ally and friend of the 80-year-old leader, has taken on the role of informing the international community on Castro's health, regularly citing letters and phone calls that he says they have exchanged.
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