Photographs from Castro

Amazing Photographs from Castro’s first public Look in Months



Communist revolutionary and five-decade dictator of Cuba Fidel Castro has not been very active since leaving in 2008, at the young-at-heart age of 81. Now 87 and thought to be in poor wellbeing, he appears very seldom in public. Most notably, in 2010, he conducted a series of meetings with the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg in which he said many astonishing and strange things. Not long after that, he more or less went away from the public eye. The last time he was glimpsed by the world was April 2013, when he went to a school opening; he reportedly contacted personally with Venezuela's new president in December.

Now, Castro has made his first public look in nine months, displaying up at an art unfastening in Havana. (Havana is said to have a truly incredible art view; some great examples here.) Photos from authorized Cuban causes are underneath; some of them are screengrabs, therefore the likeness quality. Castro does not look large; he is apparently frail and seems to require substantial assistance to stroll through the gallery.


His sophisticated age is a reminder that he was round, and playing a major geopolitical function, as far back as the Kennedy administration.


Castro's age is furthermore a reminder that he still performances a symbolic function in the U.S.-Cuba connection; while President Obama has incrementally opened up trade, Cuban American exiles who remember Castro's brutality are a key constituency resisting normalized relatives.


And here, as a bonus, is Castro adoring one of the artworks at the gallery. It's attractive cool: