Cuban leader Fidel Castro's health appears to be deteriorating, a South American politician said after meeting the 77-year-old dictator.
"He seemed very sick to me," Mr Luis Eduardo Garzon, a former communist union organiser and now mayor of the Colombian capital Bogota.
"You could tell he had physical limitations, especially in his speech." Rumours about Castro's health circulate regularly, especially in the Cuban exile community.
But he has not had any known serious illnesses and remains energetic for a man his age, recently speaking for eight hours at a meeting of Cuba's parliament.
Castro has been in power for 45 years, making him the world's longest-ruling head of government.
AP
