First pics of Fidel

[Karl Marx's Camel]

Pics published today by Juventud Rebelde www.juventudrebelde.cu :

http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2006-08...ento-muy-feliz/ (http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2006-08-13/me-siento-muy-feliz/)

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/esteri/lider-maximo/esterne131148521308115227_big.jpg

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/esteri/lider-maximo/esterne131148511308115246_big.jpg

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/esteri/lider-maximo/esterne131148501308115249_big.jpg

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/esteri/lider-maximo/esterne131148491308115252_big.jpg

[Rollo]

Good to see him ok.

[T Man]

He's aged fairly well and looks good for an 80 year old.

[Rollo]

Wait.... Is he wearing an adidas jumpsuit? That's the first time I've seen him out of uniform.

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2006, 11:58 AM
Wait.... Is he wearing an adidas jumpsuit? That's the first time I've seen him out of uniform.
yeah... I thought the same way :huh:

[Rollo]

The apocalypse will surely follow. I thought Fidel slept in that uniform.

[Karl Marx's Camel]

Wait.... Is he wearing an adidas jumpsuit? That's the first time I've seen him out of uniform.

I've seen it before.

http://nylatinojournal.com/home/images/stories/fidel_castro_baseball.jpg

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/fidel/fidel-camilo.jpg

http://www.umich.edu/~uac/threeweeks/Volume2.3/fidel.jpg

http://www.lanuevacuba.com/graficas/castro_baseball.jpg

http://images.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/_photos/2005-12-15-castro-ins.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2002/05/16/wcub16.jpeg

[Rollo]

Fidel looks really good in those black and white photos. Especially the barbudos one.

[Patchd]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2006, 01:00 PM
Fidel looks really good in those black and white photos. Especially the barbudos one.
Yeah, he is a shadow of his former self, but he is still a great guy.

[Ander]

Adidas track suit? How socialist of him... :rolleyes:

[Martin Blank]

Personally, I liked the one they didn't print in JR.

http://www.npns.org/images/castro-finger.gif

Miles

[More Fire for the People]

:lol: Miles that is fucking awesome.

[Martin Blank]

Originally posted by Hopscotch [email protected] 13 2006, 11:03 AM
:lol: Miles that is fucking awesome.
You should have seen it when they were done....

http://www.npns.org/images/castro-finger-note.gif

Miles

P.S.: http://www.cafepress.com/comleague.70140882

[Tekun]

Some ppl have been claiming it was a montage or digitally created (gusanos, UNIVISION, and some "experts")

Anyone agree?
I don't

[Karl Marx's Camel]

Do you have any links where we can read what kind of experts they are?

I'd have to agree that some of the pictures look like a montage.

[MiniOswald]

Rocky had a montage and he still kicked arse

[metalero]

actually this one is also a montage featuring Chavez, Raul and Fidel. They had to make up some nice story, like fidel thanking Chavez for his visit, and giving him also a fake painting made by David Siquieros in 1959. :rolleyes:

http://www.adnkronos.com/Assets/Imgs/C/castro_raul_chavez--200x150.jpg

[which doctor]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2006, 06:14 AM
Pics published today by Juventud Rebelde www.juventudrebelde.cu :

http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2006-08...ento-muy-feliz/ (http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2006-08-13/me-siento-muy-feliz/)

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/esteri/lider-maximo/esterne131148521308115227_big.jpg

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/esteri/lider-maximo/esterne131148511308115246_big.jpg

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/esteri/lider-maximo/esterne131148501308115249_big.jpg

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/esteri/lider-maximo/esterne131148491308115252_big.jpg
He's not very photogenic.

[Severian]

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2006, 04:24 AM
Some ppl have been claiming it was a montage or digitally created (gusanos, UNIVISION, and some "experts")
It's kinda remarkable how those people have been so consistently wrong, from celebrating in the streets over Fidel's supposed death, right down to today.

On the other hand, everything the Cuban government has said....turned out to be true. They're really not in the habit of lying.

[Karl Marx's Camel]

What I find quite interesting is that Fidel is eating already.

[Conghaileach]

Apparently there's also been a video of him broadcast...


Originally posted by RTÉ News

15 August 2006

First footage emerges of Castro since surgery

Cuban television has broadcast the first moving images of Fidel Castro since he underwent abdominal surgery two weeks ago.

The six-minute film footage shows him in bed chatting to the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, during a visit to mark his 80th birthday on Sunday.

Mr Castro temporarily ceded power to his brother, Raul, when he fell ill.Source (http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0815/cuba.html)

[Honggweilo]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2006, 06:40 AM
What I find quite interesting is that Fidel is eating already.
eating yogurt, not really hard to digest.. :rolleyes:

I must say that fidels wearing a rather phat adidas jumpsuit :P. Maybe they should do a "Man of the People" fashion line, based on fidels wardrobe :lol:

Even now, when both the video and the picture have been released. right wingers still try to set the story to their own hands and claim "The photo's have been edited"

an article about the subject on our site (in dutch) (http://www.cjb.nu/pages/fidelfotos.htm)

[Phugebrins]

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/esteri/lider-maximo/esterne131148511308115246_big.jpg
- "Hello, this is the office of President Raul Castro. The President is not able to reach the phone at the moment - please leave a message after the tone"

[Karl Marx's Camel]

:lol:



Even now, when both the video and the picture have been released. right wingers still try to set the story to their own hands and claim "The photo's have been edited"

Well yeah, it's pretty obvious now that the photo's are authentic.

The image I reacted to was the one with Fidel and the newspaper. To me it looks like Fidel is glued to the bakground, and the newspaper is glued to Fidel's hands, but I think it happens quite often in photographies. It looked quite thin for a paper, but Granma doesn't have a lot of pages so...

[Fidelbrand]

I hope this picture is really taken after his surgery.

The newspp he is holding looks like it is "keyed" onto the photo...

but I think i'm guessing too much, since this photo couldn't have been "prepared" before the surgery:

http://www.adnkronos.com/Assets/Imgs/C/castro_raul_chavez--200x150.jpg

So... the conclusion is: Fidel is fine ~ :P :wub:

[ZX3]

Originally posted by Severian+Aug 15 2006, 04:52 AM--> (Severian @ Aug 15 2006, 04:52 AM)
[email protected] 14 2006, 04:24 AM
Some ppl have been claiming it was a montage or digitally created (gusanos, UNIVISION, and some "experts")
It's kinda remarkable how those people have been so consistently wrong, from celebrating in the streets over Fidel's supposed death, right down to today.

On the other hand, everything the Cuban government has said....turned out to be true. They're really not in the habit of lying. [/b]
Of course that was a fake finger. Its a bad one at that. Its a bloody cartoon hand. Slightly beter than something drawn by Walt Disney.

[ZX3]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2006, 12:29 PM
The apocalypse will surely follow. I thought Fidel slept in that uniform.
Heck not wearing a uniform ought not be the apocalypse.

The apocalypse ought be wearing products celebrating a capitalist exploiter of the people.

I wonder how many other Cubans have access to Adidas products?

[Severian]

Originally posted by ZX3+Aug 16 2006, 07:03 AM--> (ZX3 @ Aug 16 2006, 07:03 AM)
Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2006, 04:52 AM

[email protected] 14 2006, 04:24 AM
Some ppl have been claiming it was a montage or digitally created (gusanos, UNIVISION, and some "experts")
It's kinda remarkable how those people have been so consistently wrong, from celebrating in the streets over Fidel's supposed death, right down to today.

On the other hand, everything the Cuban government has said....turned out to be true. They're really not in the habit of lying.
Of course that was a fake finger. Its a bad one at that. Its a bloody cartoon hand. Slightly beter than something drawn by Walt Disney. [/b]
You know that wasn't one of the officially released photos, right? Freelance photoshop by a poster.

[KC]

I wonder how many other Cubans have access to Adidas products?

http://www.siporcuba.it/137%20Muchacha%20cubana%207.jpg

OMGZ

[Karl Marx's Camel]

I wonder how many other Cubans have access to Adidas products?

Some might arrange a deal with a tourist to trade T-shirts. And it is not uncommon for tourists to give gifts (tampons, various medicine, clothes etc.) to those who work in the hotels and so on.

[Knowledge 6 6 6]

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/esteri/lider-maximo/esterne131148491308115252_big.jpg

Fidel: "Raul, I can't seem to find my olive shirt...I'm borrowing your Adidas jumpsuit in the meantime. And if my chair is out of place when I come back...it's your ASS.

[Solitary Mind]

Originally posted by [email protected] 16 2006, 01:06 PM
celebrating a capitalist exploiter of the people.

I wonder how many other Cubans have access to Adidas products?
to the first part... :lol: ....kill yourself now..please, that or dont post here, you have no idea about your talking about..second part...go to cuba...

[ZX3]

Originally posted by Khayembii [email protected] 16 2006, 07:31 PM


I wonder how many other Cubans have access to Adidas products?

http://www.siporcuba.it/137%20Muchacha%20cubana%207.jpg

OMGZ
You have posted two.

[Entrails Konfetti]

You know I've always said that Hardcore scene kids look like Fidel Castro going jogging because they wear olive green pants and hats with jogging jackets, but now that I see Fidel in a track suit they try to be Fidel Castro!

[Entrails Konfetti]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2006, 02:36 AM
actually this one is also a montage featuring Chavez, Raul and Fidel. They had to make up some nice story, like fidel thanking Chavez for his visit, and giving him also a fake painting made by David Siquieros in 1959. :rolleyes:

http://www.adnkronos.com/Assets/Imgs/C/castro_raul_chavez--200x150.jpg
Chavez is a great friend, giving you stuff, trading well, visiting you in the hospital with a portrait.

I wish he were my friend, he'd be funny as hell down at the bar!

[bezdomni]

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/esteri/lider-maximo/esterne131148521308115227_big.jpg

That is a stupid pose.

I am glad he's doing better though. Anybody who says those pictures are faked is a dolt.

[Guest1]

I just hope I'm wrong and it's not a stroke, which would be basically the same thing as him being dead.

Either way, I think the transition might be permanent.

[Severian]

Originally posted by Che y [email protected] 16 2006, 09:15 PM
Either way, I think the transition might be permanent.
That might be. The man is 79, so slow recovery, interactions of different health problems, development of new health problems, etc., are very possible.

But heck, even if the worst happens.....if I live so long, and accomplish a tiny fraction as much, I'll be able to die happy.

[Patchd]

Originally posted by Severian+Aug 18 2006, 08:59 AM--> (Severian @ Aug 18 2006, 08:59 AM)
Che y [email protected] 16 2006, 09:15 PM
Either way, I think the transition might be permanent.
That might be. The man is 79, so slow recovery, interactions of different health problems, development of new health problems, etc., are very possible.

But heck, even if the worst happens.....if I live so long, and accomplish a tiny fraction as much, I'll be able to die happy. [/b]
I thought he's 80 now