Cuba's Fidel Castro in good health, vice-president says


Cuba's first Vice President Miguel Diaz Canel walks after signing a book of condolence for Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez at the Colombian embassy in Havana April 25, 2014. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa

HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro is in good health and working hard though he is "dismayed" over the recent death of his close friend, Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cuba's government said on Friday.

"His health is very good. He's working intensely on the things he has been doing recently, and of course he has been very dismayed by the death of Garcia Marquez, who was his close friend," Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel told reporters in Havana.

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