Havana: Cuban President Fidel Castro said he feels "very well" and received a visit from renowned Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, according to his comments published by the official daily Granma on Wednesday.
"I am very well, I have followed everything closely," Castro told his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in a phone conversation late Monday, the Granma report said.
Eighty-year-old Castro temporarily gave up power on the communist island almost eight months ago for health reasons. His brother Raul is currently acting as Cuban leader.
"This morning I had a visit from Gabo, who showed up here," the Cuban president said, referring to Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize for Literature laureate and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Garcia Marquez is a personal friend of Castro and travelled to Cuba last week.
Castro told Chavez that he "did not miss one detail" of the Venezuelan president's regional tour, which took him to Argentina, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Jamaica and Haiti to counter a regional tour by US President George W Bush to Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico.
Chavez was in Haiti at the time of the conversation, and Castro also spoke with Rene Preval, president of the Caribbean country, which is the poorest nation in the region.
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