Fidel Castro Makes First Public Appearance In Three Months

For the first time in three months, the former Cuban President and leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, aged 88, came out into the public on Friday, as he was part of a meeting of cheese masters in a rare trip at Havana, according to rt .

Fidel Castro attended a meeting that debated on cheese for more than four hours and had 19 cheese masters, said the official newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party, Granma, on Saturday. The meeting was held at a research institute that was part of the Food Industry Ministry in Havana's suburb of Guatao. Official Cuban media show pictures of Castro on a panel in an auditorium at the institute.

While Castro put in his views on world nutrition, climate change, and the frequency of wars, he also talked about the necessity of "restoring the cheese quality and production levels" that could be achieved before the special period from 1991 to 1995.

The frozen relationship between Cuba and the US is said to be warming up, with his brother, the current Cuban president, Raul Castro, announcing a formal agreement with the USA on bringing back diplomatic relations that had been broken after the Cuban Revolution of 1961. On July 20, Cuba is expected to open an embassy in Washington, even as the US will start an embassy in Havana on July 20.

On the rapprochement, Fidel Castro wrote in Granma: "I don't trust the policy of the United States... but this does not mean I reject a pacific solution to the conflicts," according to bbc.

Having fallen ill, Fidel Castro had stepped down and handed over power to his younger brother, Raul, in 2006. Today, Fidel is a columnist and greets politicians and officials from various nations.