Fidel Castro's former wife visits Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Saturday, 11.15.08
Fidel Castro's former wife visits Cuba

Mirta Diaz-Balart, the former wife of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, is visiting family in Havana and was photographed Friday attending a scientific seminar with their son, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart.

Diaz-Balart, 80, was photographed as she joined her 59-year-old son at the inauguration of an international seminar on Nano-science held at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Havana.

The photos are the first of Diaz-Balart together with her son, a nuclear scientist, published in recent memory. They were released by the Cuban government's Prensa Latina news agency.

Though Diaz-Balart, who has lived in Spain for decades, is known to have visited her son in Cuba on previous occasions, she has not appeared in public and regularly avoided talking to the media about her family.

More:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/772902.html

[Billy Burnett]

1. I listened to a small amount of exile radio today. They are ON this news.

There are hosts, interviewees, and many callers who are sure that Fidel Castro is about to die and this is a rush visit to see him before he goes.

Of course there are plenty who "know" that he's dead and that this is stagecraft for some huge conspiracy.

[Judi Lynn]

2. That's the mark of a really sneaky people, setting up a conference on nano science

to mislead rocket scientists in Miami when they're really holding a death watch, or even POST-DEATH watch!

I've heard they may even send out some trained tourist-munching sharks to mark the occassion, as a memorial to Fidel Castro, and some trained infection carrying West Nile birds, as a chaser. Those South Florida guys really have had their number all along, haven't they?

[EFerrari]

3. Maybe those people should stop eating so much shellfish.

lol

[Billy Burnett]

4. New Miami Herald article: Fidel Castro's former wife visits Cuba, son

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/774754.html

The former wife of Cuba's Fidel Castro, Mirta Díaz-Balart, joined her son Fidel Jr. in a science expo in Havana, their first public appearance in many years.

BY WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA
EL NUEVO HERALD
Mirta Díaz-Balart, the first wife of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, is in Havana to visit family.

Díaz-Balart, 80, joined her son Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart, 59, at the inauguration of the second International Seminar of Nano-science and Nano-technology that drew 35 leading scientists from Germany, France, China, Japan, Great Britain, Spain and Russia.

The event is being held at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, in the Havana neighborhood of Siboney, where mother and son allowed themselves to be photographed by members of the press.

The photos are the first of Mirta and Castro Díaz-Balart together in Cuba that have been published in decades.

''She looked radiant, very content to be together with Fidelito,'' noted one attendant of the ceremony in Havana. ``She is a woman that has conserved herself extremely well despite her years.''

Castro Díaz-Balart, who is an engineering professor and scientific advisor to the Cuban Council of State, gave a talk entitled, ''The Great Challenge of the Small: The Cuban Strategy for Nano-technology'' and outlined the island-nation's projects in this field.

After the presentation, Castro Díaz-Balart posed for pictures with his mother in the conference room where Fernando González, Cuban minister of science, technology and the environment, was also present.

Though Mirta has traveled to the island on previous occasions, this was the first time she has attended a public function, having avoided the press for years, reluctant to speak publicly about her family.

According to Spanish daily El Confidencial, her last visit to Cuba took place in July 2006. According to sources cited by the Spanish newspaper, in 2006 Mirta went to visit her ex-husband Fidel Castro after he was operated on July 27 of that year.

During that trip to Havana, her husband of 45 years and father of her two daughters, Emilio Nuñez Portuondo, died in Madrid.

Mirta Francisca de la Caridad Díaz-Balart Gutiérrez and Fidel Castro Ruz met while attending law school at the University of Havana. They were married on Oct. 11, 1948, and divorced seven years later. Their only son was born on Sept. 1, 1949. The boy would soon be at the center of a custody battle in Mexico in 1956.

Mirta has lived in Madrid since 1968 and is the aunt of U.S. Reps. Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart, both Republicans of Florida.

[Judi Lynn]

5. So now we know Germany, France, China, Japan, Great Britain, Spain and Russia are involved

in trying to create the smokescreen to keep Americans in the dark about Fidel Castro's either impending, or past death!

Well, look at it this way: they're all furriners!

That means commies. They want our plasma tv's. They want us to live 5 families packed into each house. They want to spend our bank accounts on uniforms, or feasts for the top commie officials.

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