Cuban President Fidel Castro, who turns 80 this year, enjoys vibrant health and will live to 140, his chief doctor said. Doctor Eugenio Selman-Housein, who heads Castro's medical team, denied that the longtime leader has Parkinson's disease, as the CIA reportedly believes.
"Every day they invent a new one," Selman-Housein said. "He will live 140 years."
Castro's health, once a taboo subject in the communist-led island, has become a topic of discussion since he fainted in public in 2001 and slipped and fell before television cameras in October 2004.
Castro, who quit smoking his trademark cigars in 1986, has led Cuba since 1959. He turns 80 on August 13.
