Former Cuban President Raúl Castro Appears at Military Event After Hospitalization
State television showed the 95-year-old former president beside Miguel Díaz-Canel as officials said he was stable after a hospitalization.
- On Saturday, Raúl Castro made his first public appearance in Cuba since health concerns surfaced, attending a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the Ministry of the Interior's personal security directorate.
- Reports from the Miami-based Diario Las Américas on Tuesday alleged Castro had suffered a stroke; Cuban officials remained silent, though sources told a news analyst his condition was stable on Thursday.
- State television showed the 95-year-old in his "General of the Army" uniform standing alongside Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and his grandson, demonstrating continued influence despite formal retirement.
- Although Castro stepped down as Communist Party leader in 2021 when Díaz-Canel Bermúdez replaced him, he maintains a symbolic seat as a deputy in the National Assembly.
- A foundational figure in Cuba's revolution, Castro arrived aboard the Granma in 1956 with his brother Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara, serving as defense minister for five decades.
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The Cuban leader showed himself alongside the military and President Díaz-Canel during a tribute to a unit of the Armed Forces whose personnel guarded Nicolás Maduro
The former president of Cuba Raul Castro, 95 years old, has reappeared in public, presiding a ceremony on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Directorate of Personal Security of the Ministry of the Interior, thus denouncing the voices about his health conditions circulated in recent days. The service of the Cuban TV on the ceremony was relaunched by the Cuban Embassy in Mozambique and the current Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúde…
Raúl Castro was accompanied by the leadership of the government, President Miguel Díaz-Canel and his grandson Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro
Cuban public television showed images of Castro, 95 years old, during the ceremony for the 65th anniversary of the Directorate of Personal Security
Fidel Castro's brother appeared again in public with President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
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