Paper Releases New Fidel Castro Photos (with Chavez

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Cuba-Castro.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Paper Releases New Fidel Castro Photos

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 14, 2006

Filed at 6:39 a.m. ET

HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba's Communist daily published new photographs of ailing leader Fidel Castro on Monday, showing him in bed on his 80th birthday during a visit with his brother Raul and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

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pictures from http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/secciones/siempre_con_fidel/art-051.html

[cyclezealot]

1. Neoliberalism & the Neocons did it to the USA.

WE have driven most of the world countries into our so called enemies camp.

[Delphinus]

2. Whoa!

No presidential palace accommodations for him! Can you imagine any of our congress critters, much less the boy king, in such an ordinary room?

[wakeme2008]

5. Yes look at the fan

room just does not look like one Bush would use....

[saigon68]

3. Looks like the Big Guy is gettting better

sorry Dickless Cheney he ain't dead yet

[Warren Stupidity]

4. I like the red pjs

Sort of santa claus themed. Fidel looks pretty good for being dead.

[Sequoia]

13. He'll be wearing red pajamas when he comes

He'll be wearing red pajamas when he comes
He'll be wearing red pajamas
He'll be wearing red pajamas
He'll be wearing red pajamas when he comes

[Vidar]

6. Applauding Castro & Chavez.

[Judi Lynn]

7. That's not a particularly flattering drawing of the guy, is it?

Looks as if it cracked them all up, however.

[Akim]

8. The Drawing May Be By Chávez Himself!

In the "Granma" article accompanying the bedside photos, it is not made clear who drew this curious picture of Fidel. Chávez told Fidel that he had himself spent two weeks trying to draw him, but always got stuck on Castro's nose, which he couldn't get quite right. He said that he finally gave up on the very eve of Castro's birthday. The framed drawing held up by Chávez and Fidel may be Chávez's (it does show a distorted nose), or the the work of a young Venezuelan artist José Antonio Quintero, which Chavez says in the article he substituted for his own.

In exchange, Raul presented Chávez with the painting of Fidel done in 1959 by the great Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, which had hung in Raúl's office for 40 years.

Chávez also presented Castro with Bolívar's dagger and a coffee cup of Bolívar's that had once belonged to Napoleon. Castro already owns Bolívar's sword, which was presented to him years ago by fellow revolutionaries.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Really! It goes to show how much information never makes it through

to English translated stories available to Americans. We surely don't get the whole story, do we?

It was the nose I was staring at, too, remembering the photos I've seen do show he has a unique profile, but it's not quite like THAT!

Thank you for your kind translation for us.

[Say_What]

10. HOW DEPRESSING....

for the MiamiGusanos that once again their wet dream of Fidel dying proves to be wrong. :smoke:

Viva Cuba!!

[RagingInMiami]

11. And his first order was

"Arrest that person who drew drew that portrait of me. My forehead and nose don't look that weird."

[Fridays Child]

12. Castro looks pretty amazing for an 80 year old. eom