Former Cuban president Fidel Castro reading a newspaper during a meeting with student leader of the University Student Federation of Havana (FUE) Randy Perdomo Garcia, in Havana, Cuba.(Photo: Estudios Revolucion via epa)
Amid rumors that the aging former Cuban leader is in declining health, or that he may even have already died, Cuba's Communist Party newspaper
Granma published an article online featuring the first photos of Fidel Castro to be seen in months.
The article, titled "Fidel is one of a kind (More photos)," includes a gallery of more than 20 pictures of the 88-year-old Castro speaking with the head of the Federation of University Students at the University of Havana, Randy Perdomo García.
GRANMA
Fidel es un fuera de serie (Más Fotos)
In several of the photographs, which the article says were from a Jan. 23 meeting at Castro's home, the former guerrilla leader is seen holding a newspaper, perhaps in an effort to verify that the photographs were taken recently.
The photos were published just before midnight on Monday. The last images of Castro were released in August following a meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
An article published on Granma's website last month featured comments, but no photos, from the former revolutionary leader on the improving relations between Cuba and the United States.
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"I don't trust the policy of the United States, nor have I exchanged a word with them, but this does not mean I reject a pacific solution to the conflicts," the Jan. 26 article quoted Castro as saying in a letter directed to the Federation of University Students. "We will always defend cooperation and friendship with all the people of the world, including with our political adversaries."
Contributing: The Associated Press
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