Havana - In a show of physical vigour belying his collapse on stage last month, President Fidel Castro led more than 1.2 million Cuban marchers yesterday in the largest anti-US protest in four decades of hostilities.
Wearing white tennis shoes and his trademark olive-green military garb, Dr Castro marched at the head of a huge rally of demonstrators that passed the US diplomatic mission on Havana's sea-front Malecon boulevard.
The march was billed by the ruling Communist Party as a protest against all US "aggressions and crimes" since Castro's 1959 revolution, ranging from the long-running economic embargo to this year's jailing of five Cuban agents on spy-related charges.