El Salvador president in Cuba for check-up after health problem

[Judi Lynn]

El Salvador president in Cuba for check-up after health problem
Source: Reuters - Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:47 GMT

SAN SALVADOR, Dec 10 (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Salvador Sanchez Ceren has gone to Cuba for a medical check-up, his office said on Wednesday, just days after he pulled out of a Latin American leaders' summit due to ill health.

Sanchez Ceren, a 70-year-old former Marxist guerrilla leader, did not go to the summit in the Mexican Gulf port of Veracruz on Monday and sent his foreign minister instead.

"Following the slight deterioration in (Sanchez Ceren's) health ... on the recommendation of his medical team, he has traveled to Havana, Cuba, to move forward his programmed medical check-up, which is being carried out as normal," the president's office said in a statement.

It did not specify Sanchez Ceren's ailment.

Sanchez Ceren won election in March. Afterwards, he announced he would be treated for an illness that he declined to reveal, but which he said was not serious.

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1. UN: El Salvador Calls on End to Cuba Embargo

UN: El Salvador Calls on End to Cuba Embargo
Published 26 September 2014

President Salvador Sanchez Ceren said that Cuba had overcome the adversity of the United States embargo placed on it, while also calling for more U.N. action on child migration in Central America.

The United States was called to end its blockade on Cuba by the President of El Salvador, Salvador Sánchez Cerén on Friday in his address to the 69th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.

The President said that, “In the pursuit of peace efforts, and of equitable development there is no place for the disdain of fundamental principles and freedoms which is found in the economic, trade and financial blockade against the sister republic of Cuba.”

He noted that Cuba is, “A country which in spite of these unilateral actions against its people, has overcome the obstacles and adversity imposed on it with exemplary perseverance and determination.”

Sanchez Ceren went on to all for the removal of Cuba from the list of terrorist states, “which sole perspire is to justify the blockade.”

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