Havana important museum hosts exhibition dedicated to Fidel Castro

An exhibition with 23 photographs of Fidel Castro, as seen by his son Alex, was opened to the public today at the museum of the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress, in Havana, and reflects the last years of the Commander-in-Chief's life.

Retrato íntimo (Intimate Portrait), the title of the exhibition, shows Fidel along with personalities who visited him in the confidence of his home, and who were his friends, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize in Literature, Ignacio Ramonet, journalist, and the Dominican friar Frei Betto.

The meetings of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution with the presidents of Russia and China Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, respectively, and with Hugo Chavez Frias, then president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, also appear in the exhibition and constitute a memory of his father, Alex Castro said.

The intention is not to show the great revolutionary leader that he is, but the friend, the host, the counselor who always had the doors open to offer affection and humanity, the photographer commented exclusively to the Cuban News Agency.

Along with the images is also exhibited the jacket, on loan from the Museum of the Revolution, which Fidel wore during the meeting in Altos de Mompie, in the Sierra Maestra, on May 3 and 4, 1958, where strategies were drawn, among others, for the preparation of the rebel forces and the confrontation of the military offensive of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista that was approaching.

The exhibition is not only a tribute to one of the greatest men of the 20th century, but also a look under the attentive and close lens of a son.