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Cuba's Fidel Castro makes rare appearance after 14 months

April 5, 2015

BBC

The former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, has made his first appearance in 14 months. 

He met a delegation of Venezuelan officials on a solidarity mission to Cuba at a local school. 

The 88-year-old revolutionary icon was described as "full of vitality" by local press. 

He was last seen in public in January 2014 at the opening of a Havana cultural centre sponsored by one of his favourite Cuban artists, Alexis Leyva.

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