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Judi Lynn

(160,218 posts)
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 06:00 PM Jan 2014

UN Chief Meets With Fidel Castro in Havana

Source: Associated Press

UN Chief Meets With Fidel Castro in Havana
UNITED NATIONS January 28, 2014 (AP)

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has met with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana.

Ban's office tweeted that the two met for about 55 minutes Tuesday. The U.N. chief is in Cuba for a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.

The U.N. office said it would provide details on the meeting shortly.

Ban met Monday with Cuban President Raul Castro, the younger brother of Fidel. Ban's office said the two discussed the U.S. embargo on Cuba and the human rights situation on the island.

Ban's office says it's his first visit to Cuba.

In her own tweet, Washington's U.N. ambassador, Samantha Power, urged world leaders visiting Cuba to meet with "everyday Cubans" and independent groups "to learn what's really happening & support democratic change."

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/chief-meets-fidel-castro-havana-22269785



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Judi Lynn

(160,218 posts)
1. UN chief praises Cuba's efforts in promoting women rights, social development
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 06:01 PM
Jan 2014

UN chief praises Cuba's efforts in promoting women rights, social development

Jan 28,2014

HAVANA, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Cuba has made remarkable efforts in promoting social development and gender equality in the Caribbean nation, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here Monday.

Ban arrived in Havana earlier in the day to attend the Second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, or CELAC for its initials in Spanish, as a special guest and to meet with Cuban authorities and representatives of civil societies.

During a meeting at the National Center for Sex Education (Cenesex), the secretary-general praised the Cuban government's support for "Unite", a UN-backed campaign aimed at ending violence against women. He also lauded the support given by civil societies in defense of women's rights.

Ban said he was touched and inspired by each action and initiative carried out in Cuba, noting that eradicating violence against women is not a dream but a possibility.

More:
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=196737

Judi Lynn

(160,218 posts)
3. Castro holds court in Cuba as Argentina's Cristina Kirchner stops by for a friendly pre-summit chat
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 06:13 PM
Jan 2014

Castro holds court in Cuba as Argentina's Cristina Kirchner stops by for a friendly pre-summit chat as pictures scotch rumours they are both ill

By Ted Thornhill

PUBLISHED: 06:26 EST, 28 January 2014 | UPDATED: 13:42 EST, 28 January 2014

The Argentine presidency released photographs of a lunchtime encounter between President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro, showing that they’re both in relatively good health.

Kirchner also published them on her official Twitter account.

‘We talked about everything, but above all a symbol of the meeting of all Latin America and the Caribbean in Havana. ... Yes, of course we talked about Hugo too. A lot. Indelible memories,’ her Twitter feed said.


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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (left) meets Cuba's former president Fidel Castro and his
wife Dalia Soto del Valle (centre) in Havana[/font]

The lunchtime meeting came ahead of a meeting between foreign ministers from 33 Latin American and Caribbean nations on Monday in the Cuban capital for a summit of Western Hemisphere countries minus the United States and Canada.

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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon gets a haircut at a barbers shop in Old Havana[/font]

More:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2547319/Castro-holds-court-Cuba-Argentinas-Cristina-Kirchner-stops-friendly-pre-summit-chat.html

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
4. Pleased to see she's looking well again.
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 06:20 PM
Jan 2014

and he's looking fine too for his age. It had never occurred to me that Fidel had a wife.

Judi Lynn

(160,218 posts)
5. Much better marriage than his first!
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 07:29 PM
Jan 2014

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Earlier photo of Dalia Soto del Valle.



Family members: Castro's second wife Dalia Soto del Valle, one of their five sons,
Alexander and an unidentified friend at an event in Havana, February 2001

Jorge Rey/Getty Images





Early Fidel Castro, prior to the Revolution.[/font]





[font size=1]Mirta, first wife, sister of the Speaker of the Cuban House of Rep., and then member of Fulgencio Batista's cabinet, Rafael Diaz-Balart, aunt of US Congressmen Lincoln Diaz-Balart, and Mario Diaz-Balart, and her 1st husband Fidel. At the bottom, Mirta and their son, Fidelito, whom she illegally took to Mexico until Fidel legally brought him back to Cuba. She moved to Spain and remarried.



Click for photo: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Wjx2-Wq6SR8/SR8W0ifEqXI/AAAAAAAAAVc/VN3QmMHqFv4/s1600-h/Fidelito+and+Mirta+2008.jpg



Rafael Diaz-Balart, younger, in Havana, and older, in Miami. He was the
United Fruit attorney in Cuba, originally, then Congressman,then Speaker
of the House, then a minister of bloody, corrupt puppet dictator, Fulgencio
Batista's cabinet.

Rafael's sons, Congressmen Lincoln, and Mario Diaz-Balart







Lincoln and Mario, center, with some Bushes[/center]

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
6. "Early Fidel Castro, prior to the Revolution."
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 07:33 PM
Jan 2014

I'm guessing that must have been taken not long after the attack on the Moncada barracks.

Judi Lynn

(160,218 posts)
7. Can't determine exactly where it is, due to some shoddy information gathering.
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 07:53 PM
Jan 2014

It's in the small section under this heading:

Early Political Rebellions and Arrests

http://totallyhistory.com/fidel-castro/

( As you can see, it's so lame, it's barely worth reading.)

My first impression was that the photo was related to the D.R.

Judi Lynn

(160,218 posts)
11. Oh, jeez! Unbelievable. No wonder he looks so subdued. He'd seen hell rolled out around him.
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 08:05 PM
Jan 2014

Thank you so much for that truly quick draw to a very helpful link. It's really good.

Judi Lynn

(160,218 posts)
8. Another image of the group participation in Ban Ki-moon's haircut in Havana.
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 07:56 PM
Jan 2014

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Wonder if this happens to him a lot![/center]

Judi Lynn

(160,218 posts)
12. It looks as if they're enjoying the event. So many people there to see his haircut!
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 01:12 AM
Jan 2014

That slight smile looks genuine! It would be great to find out what's behind the photo.

Have you found people in general in the towns you've visited were similarly hospitable in Cuba? I have heard or read it in various places over the years from many sources that real Cuban people in Cuba are very generous of spirit and cordial.

Judi Lynn

(160,218 posts)
13. Fidel Castro 'talked a lot' during meeting, Brazil's Rousseff says
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 02:25 AM
Jan 2014

Fidel Castro 'talked a lot' during meeting, Brazil's Rousseff says
HAVANA Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:49pm EST


Jan 28 (Reuters) - Fidel Castro was lucid, displayed a sharp memory and "talked a lot," Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday of her two-hour meeting with the former Cuban president.

Rousseff met Castro, 87, on Monday during her visit to Cuba for a Latin American and Caribbean summit. She said Castro discussed his contemporaries, such as former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, and historical figures such as Napoleon.
Castro has rarely been seen in public since he took ill in 2006 and handed over power to his younger brother Raul Castro, at first provisionally in 2006 and then definitively in 2008.

"He talked a lot," Rousseff said of Fidel Castro, who was famous for lengthy speeches in his younger days, such as the time in 1960 when he told the United Nations General Assembly "we shall endeavor to be brief," then spoke for a record four-and-a-half hours.

"He is well, wholesome, lucid," Rousseff said. "It's very interesting because a person who lived through such an important moment in world history personally knew a lot of things, and he has an excellent memory, telling stories."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/29/cuba-castro-rousseff-idUSL2N0L303H20140129?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews&rpc=401

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