http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6003034&cKey=1123775432000HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Fidel Castro turns 79 on Saturday with no plans for retirement at the helm of the Western Hemisphere's only Communist state.
The world's longest serving head of government is busy repairing Cuba's battered socialist economy.
Castro says he is "perfecting" the egalitarian society he began to build after he and his bearded guerrillas ousted U.S. backed dictator Fulgencio Batista and seized power in 1959.
His stamina undiminished, the ageing leader continues to give marathon four- to five-hour speeches denouncing U.S. imperialist aggression to staunch supporters who sing the Marxist Internationale anthem when he is done.
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