Castro refused anaesthetic so he could stay in charge
Demonstrating he retains firm control over Cuba after fracturing his knee and arm in a fall, President Fidel Castro told of conducting government business by mobile phone during an ambulance ride and later refusing general anaesthesia.
āI have not stopped attending to the tasks that I am responsible for, in co-ordination with the other comrades,ā the 78-year-old Castro wrote in a lengthy note read on state television last night.
