New photo of Fidel Castro appears

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Tuesday, 11.11.08
EL NUEVO HERALD
New photo of Fidel Castro appears

The first public photo of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro since June has appeared on the internet page of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The photo shows Castro with Metropolitan Kiril Gundjaev during the Orthodox church leader's visit to Havana last month to inaugurate a new cathedral in Old Havana.

The 82-year-old Castro appears not much changed from his last publicly available image, taken during a Junre visit to Havana by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. After his meeting with Castro on Oct. 20, Gundjaev, head of the foreign church affairs for the Moscow patriarchate, told journalists that Castro had seemed "lucid but somewhat weak.''

At the time, Cuba's oficial media published photos of the visitor's meeting with Raul Castro, Fidel's brother and successor, and reports but no photos on his meeting with Fidel Castro.

The photo of Castro and Gundjaev began making the rounds of the Internet after exiled Cuban historian Emilio Ichikawa published it in his blog Monday. He said a reader had alerted him to the photo's existence on the Russian church's internet pages.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/766058.html.

The Miami Herald ran the photo of Fidel Castro and Metropolitan Kiril Gundjaev in their Spanish version of the Herald, El Nuevo Herald but they saw fit NOT to run it in their English paper.

Here's the "Nuevo's" photo:

[Billy Burnett]

1. Calling all Photoshop experts. Calling all Photoshop experts.

Hoping some photoshop experts show up to verify that this photo is a fake. Wanna bet they'll be anti Cuba experts too? LOL

[Judi Lynn]

2. It will be wonderful hearing them explain how the Russian Orthodox church is complicit

in helping the Cuban government put one over on the rest of the world by pretending Fidel Castro is still alive!

The D.U. sleuths are simply brilliant, aren't they? God bless their hearts!

Here's a larger version of the same photo taken, I think, from a Peruvian newspaper:

Publican la primera fotografía de Fidel Castro en cinco meses
(first photograph of Fidel Castro in five months)

http://e.peru21.pe.nyud.net:8090/102/ima/0/0/0/0/7/7763.jpg

[dipsydoodle]

3. Can't get your link to show ?

Could be my end I suppose / Is it there ?

Given that Fidel is about the same age as my lovely mum he looks fine to me in the original posters pic.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Odd, I'm seeing it! Just saw it before starting this reply. Hmmmm.

It's the same photo, but LARGER, so people can get a good long look at that diabolical "photoshopped" hand!

I found the article containing that photo, so you can look there:

http://peru21.pe/noticia/220908/publican-primera-fotografia-fidel-castro-cinco-meses

I'm curious about why I can see it and it's not coming across there, myself!

Hope the new link works. Be sure to witness the nefarious photoshopping going on as the Russian Orthodox Church has been caught by a couple of free-lance sleuths trying to put one over on the entire world by claiming a dead Fidel Castro is actually living. I'm sure they (Russian Orthodox Church leaders) wouldn't mind being caught in their terrible lie, since they are such criminals, if our DU sleuths are right!

[dipsydoodle]

5. Got it now

Must've been an issue at my end - thanks.

Oh yes to be sure - the Russian Orthys have got a really busy photoshopping section. :rofl:

[Judi Lynn]

6. Oh, for sure! I just wish they would stay out of politics, don't you?

Things are screwed up enough without the added confusion, like these images foisted off upon us!

http://www.mises.org.nyud.net:8090/images4/BushHalo.jpg http://men.style.com.nyud.net:8090/images/gq/features/010805/jesusBush.jpg

It only upsets the snake handling fundamentalists.

http://www.unexplainedstuff.com.nyud.net:8090/images/geuu_01_img0158.jpg