Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro met with Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari on Wednesday, India's ambassador to Cuba said. "It was a very warm and affectionate visit," Ambassador Chintapally Rajasekhar told reporters after Ansari met with the 87-year-old who led the Americas' only communist country for almost five decades. Castro stepped aside during a health crisis in 2006 and has been replaced as president by his 82-year-old brother Raul.
He had not met with a foreign official since Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa in September.
The Indian diplomat said Ansari wanted to personally pay his respects to an icon of social justice while on an official visit to Havana.
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