Images shows Castro stronger after surgery

FIDEL Castro looked stronger yesterday in the first images the government has released of him in months, showing him in a brief videotape and four photographs meeting with the visiting Vietnamese Communist party chief.

In the video clip shown on state television, and four photographs of his two-hour meeting with Nong Duc Manh published yesterday in the Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde, Castro appeared to be wearing the same red track suit with black and white trim he wore in some of the past images released by the government.

In one photograph, the two are seen sitting on rattan chairs and chatting, and in the other three they are standing, including one that shows them embracing.