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Cuba publishes first photos of ex-leader Fidel Castro in five months

A photo taken from the website Cubadebate, which dates it Jan. 23, shows Fidel Castro. (Associated Press)
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A photo taken from the website Cubadebate, which dates it Jan. 23, shows Fidel Castro. (Associated Press)

HAVANA – Cuba has published the first photos of Fidel Castro in more than five months, showing the 88-year-old former leader engaged in what appears to be a lively conversation with a university student.

Nearly two dozen images were published virtually simultaneously on the websites of Cuba’s main state media outlets around midnight Monday. In them, Castro is talking with the head of the main Cuban student union. A first-person account by the student, Randy Perdomo Garcia, says the meeting took place Jan. 23. The photos are the first images of the revolutionary leader since August.

Perdomo said he and Castro met for more than three hours in the former leader’s house, after an event celebrating the 70th anniversary of Castro starting his studies at the University of Havana.