Positive words on Chavez health tuned down

Chavez health: Cuba's Castro tones down rhertoric

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 13 February 2013 18:17 GMT

More than a week after former leader Fidel Castro was quoted in Cuban media as saying Venezuela's cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez was "much better," the Communist Party newspaper published a different, toned down version of his comments.

The transcript in Granma, said to have been "reviewed and updated" by Castro, left out the more positive assessments of Chavez ' condition, but did say he was recovering, according to a Reuters report.

Castro, who spoke with reporters when he went to vote in Cuba's National Assembly election, was quoted in 4 February news accounts as telling reporters he got daily reports on Chavez and that he was doing "much better, recovering" two months after undergoing a six-hour operation in Havana.

"It has been a tough fight but he is improving," Castro…

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