New photos show Fidel Castro using hospital-type chair
By JUAN O. TAMAYO
jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com
Three Nicaraguan websites have posted new photos of Fidel Castro using a
hospital-style wheeled chair during meetings in Havana with President
Daniel Ortega last year.
The 12 color photos were posted Monday by El 19, La Voz del Sandinismo
and El Pueblo Presidente, all sites with close ties to Ortega's leftist
party, the Sandinista Front for National Liberation.
El Nuevo Herald could not independently authenticate the photos. If
confirmed, they would be the first time Castro is shown in a wheelchair
since he underwent emergency surgery in 2006. The Cuban media reported
on the Ortega-Castro meetings last year.
A short text posted with the photos on all three sites says the
snapshots were taken during two Ortega visits to Cuba in April and
December, but does not specify how many times they met. From the clothes
worn, it appears the photos were taken during three meetings.
Five of the photos show Castro sitting on what is known as a companion
wheelchair, with four small wheels and a high head rest. In seven of the
photos, he sat in front of a hospital-style table.
Another of the photos shows him speaking with Ortega outdoors, behind
what appears to be a large van, with its back doors open and a metal
handrail leading inside.
The photos also show Castro's wife, Dalia Soto del Valle, and Ortega's
wife, Rosario Murillo, as well as Fidel's brother Raúl and Cuban Foreign
Minister Bruno Rodríguez.
New photos show Fidel Castro using hospital-type chair - Afternoon
Update - MiamiHerald.com (4 January 2010)
http://www.miamiherald.com/1374/story/1408779.html
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