{"id":73808,"date":"2016-04-08T01:14:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T05:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=73808"},"modified":"2025-03-05T19:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T00:48:29","slug":"73808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/04\/08\/73808\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidel Castro makes rare public appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73809\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cuba.FidelCastro.02.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73809\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73809\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cuba.FidelCastro.02.jpg\" alt=\"Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba in 2003. (Photo by  Ricardo Stuckert\/ABr.)\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cuba.FidelCastro.02.jpg 480w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cuba.FidelCastro.02-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba in 2003.<br \/>(Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cuba.FidelCastro.02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Ricardo Stuckert\/ABr.<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MEXICO CITY\u2014Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has made the first public appearance in the past eight months, marking the birthday of his late sister-in-law, Vilma Espin, by visiting a school named after the revolutionary figure, local media report.<\/p>\n<p>Castro, 89, usually receives political leaders at his home in the capital Havana.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy bactrim online <a href=\"http:\/\/dentalhacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/bactrim.html\">http:\/\/dentalhacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/bactrim.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> He made his previous public appearance in the summer of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In late March, the leader of the historic Cuban Revolution said in an article published in the Granma daily newspaper that Cuba does not need gifts from the US &#8220;empire.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zyban online <a href=\"http:\/\/dentalhacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/zyban.html\">http:\/\/dentalhacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/zyban.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Castro&#8217;s remarks came in the wake of US President Barack Obama\u2019s historic three-day visit to Cuba, the first by a US president since 1928.<\/p>\n<p>Castro criticized Obama&#8217;s calls &#8220;to forget the past and look to the future&#8221; in bilateral relations &#8220;after a merciless blockade that has lasted almost 60 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fidel Castro gave up his presidential position in 2008 after a serious illness and his brother, Raul Castro, was voted in as president. Vilma Espin was married to Raul Castro; she died in June 2007.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2014, Obama announced that the United States would begin to normalize relations with Cuba after more than 50 years of non-engagement and hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>While the two countries reopened embassies in their respective capitals in July 2015, the congressionally-mandated US trade embargo continues to remain in effect.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy modafinil online <a href=\"http:\/\/dentalhacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/modafinil.html\">http:\/\/dentalhacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/modafinil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Fidel will turn 90 in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY\u2014Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has made the first public appearance in the past eight months, marking the birthday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[10082,10081,379],"class_list":["post-73808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-cuba","tag-fidel-castro","tag-mexico","mauthors-sputnik-international-via-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287282,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73808\/revisions\/287282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}