Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro made his first known public appearance since falling ill four years ago in a visit this week to a Havana scientific facility, a blog and a Cuban government website reported on Saturday.
Photographs posted on state-run www.cubadebate.cu taken by his son Alex showed a smiling, healthy-looking Castro, 83, talking with directors of the National Centre of Scientific Investigations. News of the visit first came out on a pro-government blog, where photographs taken with a cell phone were posted of Castro greeting admirers as he left the centre.
The blogger, Rosa C. Baez, wrote that Castro was spotted making a "surprise visit" to the centre on Wednesday and stopped to greet and "throw kisses" to the group that waited for a chance to see him.
"He is thin, but looked good and, according to our director, is very good mentally," said Baez, whose blog appears on a website entitled "Bloggers and Correspondents of the Revolution."
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