Fidel Castro, former leader of Cuba, visited the National Center for Scientific Investigation in Havana and spoke to workers there. (Alex Castro/Reuters)
Good to see you out and about, El Presidente!
"New photos show Fidel Castro in public" by Associated Press | July 12, 2010
HAVANA — New pictures of Fidel Castro show the stooped but smiling former leader venturing out to meet with workers at a Cuban scientific think tank — the first to show him in public since he battled serious illness four years ago.
Cuba had occasionally released pictures showing him in private meetings with dignitaries, most recently during a visit in February by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil. In those pictures, Castro looked cheerful and robust.
The latest batch of pictures of the tracksuit-clad Castro were posted Saturday on the blogs of two Cuban journalists and a media website.
Castro, 83, appears to be healthy in the pictures....
An AmeriKan hero returning home:
A Marine Corps honor guard saluted yesterday as the casket of Corporal Paul Fagundes arrived at Logan. (Kayana Szymczak for The Boston Globe)."
Cynthia Marie Fagundes held her son, Cazzian, as a Marine escorted her into a Fall River church for her husband’s funeral. Corporal Paul Fagundes died July 4 in Guantanamo Bay. She is pregnant with the couple’s second child. (Kayana Szymczak for The Boston Globe)
