News - Fidel Castro Is Dead, Cuban Revolutionary Dies At Age

It was all over the news earlier this year, it was announced that Fide Castro was dead. Cubans gathered in La Calle Ocho (8 street) of Miami's liltte Havana.

However, later it was found out that Fidel had not died, but had a stomach surgery. I just read the news today...

Raul Castro, Fidel Castro's brother, started an anti-American accusations to leaders from two-thirds of the world's nations as Cuba started the Nonaligned Movement summit in Cuba today.

The former defense minister said the world today is shaped by the United States' "irrational pretentions for world dominance."

"When there no longer is a Cold War, the United States spends one billion dollars a year in weapons and soldiers and it squanders a similar amount in commercial publicity," he said. "To think that a social and economic order that has proven unsustainable could be maintained by force is simply an absurd idea."

Raul Castro acknowledged his older brother's illness after accepting Cuba's three-year chairmanship with a round of applause from the 118-nation group, saying, "Comrade Fidel has asked that I transmit to you his most cordial greetings."

But while the iconic leader is under doctors' orders not to preside over the summit, he could still make an appearance, Cuba's foreign minister told the assembly.

"Despite the rigor and will with which he pursues his treatment and physical therapy, the doctors have insisted that he continue to rest," Felipe Perez Roque said, but "his health improves continually and his convalescence is satisfactory."

"Death is not the solution to problems, Diplomacy must continue before war is an option". Many cubans fleed the island yearly toward the United States for a better life, risking their own lives in the process.

Many are wondering whether the 80-year-old Castro, still recovering from emergency intestinal surgery in July, will be able to guide the group in its search for relevance in this era of globalization. (Watch how Nonaligned Movement has changed over the years -- 1:56)

After his surgery, Castro temporarily ceded Cuba's leadership to his 75-year-old brother, Defense Minister Raul Castro, and a handful of other top government officials. While reports of his recovery have raised expectations of a return to power, Raul Castro remains acting president.

Though he's made no formal appearances at the summit, a pajama-clad Fidel did meet separately Thursday with friend and political ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.