Castro didn't make it to the May Day parade in Havana yesterday and it's been nine months or so since his last public appearance. Just six weeks ago it was reported that he went on a walk with writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez:
"I tell you, it seemed like kilometres," the Nobel Prize winning Colombian writer said, describing a stroll the two went for on Monday.
"Fidel is a force of nature," said Garcia Marquez, adding that he found Castro in good humor and interested in talking about global warming and Latin American politics.
"It's the same old Fidel," Garcia Marquez said.
I couldn't seem to find any video of this "stroll"(which doesn't mean it doesn't exist), but it was fairly easy to find a photo from AP at Yahoo news:
I did find some video of him meeting with a delegation from China, but if you watch it the quality is horseshit, with his face mostly obscured by glare or shadow. It's kind of curious that we get all of these nice high resolution stills of Castro talking to various people but the only clear video I could find is from last fall with Chavez. I have no proof that he's actually dead, but isn't it weird that the video is so bad compared to the stills?
Meanwhile, reached in Ramallah where he's resting comfortably, Yasser Arafat had no comment.
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