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| Cuba releases new photos of Fidel Castro amid rumours of declining health | |
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| Photographs of Fidel Castro, 88, have appeared in official media for the first time since August, showing the former Cuban leader slightly hunched while seated, but appearing animated as he spoke with a student leader. | |
| Speculation over Castro’s health has intensified since the historic announcement on 17 December by his younger brother and current president, Raúl Castro, and the US president, Barack Obama, that the two longtime adversaries would restore diplomatic ties. | |
| Fidel Castro, who periodically writes a column, went silent after the announcement until finally commenting a week ago, when he offered lukewarm support for the pact his brother reached with Obama. | |
| The pictures of the former president with Randy Perdomo were taken on 23 January, according to the student leader’s account, which appeared with the photos on the website of the Communist party newspaper Granma on Monday night. | |
| Granma published 21 pictures of the two men talking, with Castro in various poses of engaged conversation, viewing a video and flipping through a newspaper. | |
| A Brazilian theologian who met Castro last week said the former leader was in good health, appearing skinny but lucid. | |
| Castro stepped down from power due to poor health, handing over to his brother provisionally in 2006 and definitively in 2008. Though he receives visitors, he has not appeared in public for more than a year. |
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