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Conflicting images????

 stickynote1.gifCastro's picture by AP (and they do not admit to any authenticity on this one) show Castro holding a newspaper, showing him alive, well and recuperating.

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However the photo of the newspaper in the hands of  a citizen shows a 2-color print job. 

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Explanations? Retouching, printer's proof, understudy? 

I think the currently released pictures are from a while back, with the current newspaper photoshopped in.

Here's a photo of Castro from July 2006 and what I notice is the beard is greyer and thinner under his lower lip.

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AND...

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Cuba's President Fidel Castro (R) listen to the Cuban national anthem at the baseball stadium 'Latinoamericano' in Havana in this May 14, 2002 file photo. Reuters by way of Yahoo.

Apologies to where I first saw this earlier today. Anyway what are the odds you grab out that ol' track suit 4 years later?  The web is a wonderful thing.

Other bloggers on this, too: Say Anything, Sean Gleeson,  Ace

Posted on Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 01:09PM by Registered CommenterSTICKY NOTES in | Comments21 Comments | References12 References

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    Response: Cuba Using Photoshop To Keep Castro Alive?
    at Say Anything on August 13, 2006
    Here's a photo of Castro released by Cuba's state-controlled media that's supposed to prove to us all that Fidel is still alive. A release by the Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde shows one of the first pictures of Cuban leader Fidel...
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    Response: Bloggers Smell Fake Castro Images
    at Micro Persuasion on August 13, 2006
    Bloggers are analyzing the images released today to the media showing Fidel Castro in good health. They smell a fake and have rather strong evidence to prove it.
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    Response: �Son las fotos de Castro falsas?
    at meneame.net on August 14, 2006
    En este blog dudan de la integridad de las fotos recientemente publicadas de Castro convaleciente (http://meneame.net/story/primeras-imagenes-fidel-castro-tras-intervencion-quirurgica): apuntan a la falta de los lunares en su frente o a que la portada del diario que muestra est� en blanco y negro y no en color como en el original. Blog en ingl�s.
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    Response: Sind Castros Fotos eine Fälschung?
    by Peter at Der Blogbote on August 14, 2006
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    Response: Fidel's Photos Faked?
    at The American Mind on August 14, 2006
    There's been some talk about the authenticity of this photo of Fidel Castro released Sunday. The photo looks real to...
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Reader Comments (21)

I wish the News Media would bring experts in to analyze these photos. Not even FOX News is holding The Cuban Government to the fire. These pictures are so onviosly altered that it makes me sick that the AP would even release them.
August 13, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterLionel
Nothing saying that they made an advance copy of the front page and took the photo prior to the operation with the story to be reprinted later. They just goofed on the color headlines. Or did someone screw up on purpose????
August 13, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterFred Fry
Someone needs to get him some Polydent or something...those chompers are looking kinda loose.
August 13, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterPurple Avenger
Well I sure haven't seen the MSM even mention the authenticity yet... we'll see. I bet he's dead or nearly so. Once we see there is no photo op with Castro and Chavez together.... well there ya' go.
August 13, 2006 | Registered CommenterSTICKY NOTES
Honestly I dont see your point, I would expect most of the photos of goverment leaders, may it be cuba, america or civilized countries, are altered in favor of the leader.
They have their own PR-agencies, think they wouldn't do what every cheap magazine does to their cover models?
August 14, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterFrank
Well, Frank, I take your point. Our tabloids do it - and it's not right then either. But this is rather under the heading of propaganda, I think, since it's a re-use of an old photo. Of course it was released to show all is well. Our government would also publish pictures of the President after surgery to assure the nation that things were under control.

My issue is the method.
August 14, 2006 | Registered CommenterSTICKY NOTES
I would totally expect the age spots to be Photoshopped out - if I were a dictator, hey... I'd demand the same. BUT... there are something things that seem quite "off" about this photo. His placement in front of that bed seems awkward and he's supposedly right up against it. That seems strange to me, but okay... let's accept that. But there are some things that still don't seem right. The whiteness of the tracksuit compared to the rest of the room, even the front of the bed. Nothing has that kind of contrast and colour purity - just him and the paper (quite an isolated flash). Second, his hand (holding the paper) seems to have a shadow behind it. Obviously, there shouldn't be one if he's holding it in the air. And third, the shadow left by the paper on the bed seems off as well. Maybe I'm just super-critical and cynical because I'm a graphic artist... and I love a good conspiracy theory.
August 14, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterShucker
Are the headline letters supposed to be perfectly vertical, or are they slanted forward by 5-7 degrees?

If the headline is supposed to be in a vertical block typeface, then the letters on this image are not angled correctly. They do not match the angle of the photo beneath them. Look at the vertical segments of the "E" "L" and "T" of "ABSUELTO." And the "P" in "POR."

Look at the "U" that is just above the left edge of the photo. The two vertical prongs are perfectly parallel with each other, but neither of them lines up with the left edge of the photo, nor do they line up with the far left edge of the paper that is peeking out from beneath Fidel's left hand.
August 14, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterPhinn
Shucker and Phinn:
What good eyes you have :)

So much does not add up. Quite a bit of talk that "he is holding" a proof of the newspaper. So if it was photogrpahed separately and stripped in, then it might account for some variance there.
August 14, 2006 | Registered CommenterSTICKY NOTES
BBC has some footage of Chavez visiting Castro in his bed.
August 15, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterJJ
Ridiculous, of course is castro, silly arguments
August 16, 2006 | Unregistered Commenterjs_
Castro! Cool
August 30, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterGarb
OH GOD I WISH IT MATTERED
September 7, 2006 | Unregistered Commenteryawn
Castro really has won Carter around.

See this clip, just aired in the UK, where Carter basically apologies for trying to assassinate Fidel while he was president and slams US policy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szIwqF9-imE


December 8, 2006 | Unregistered Commentersignatory
No one knows better than Cuban-Americans the things that Castro is capable of and the b.s. that he tries to pull with the whole world. The truth is that he is probably dead and the idiots that are there are waiting for a Democrat to come into the US presidency. Historically, they are much easier to fool than the Republicans. Castro has never screwed around with Republicans at least not in my lifetime.
January 21, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterM. E. P.
Are you kidding me? My 4 year old nephew can work photoshop better than these people. I say the old fart is dead. Power to the Cuban- Americans in the United States. Take back what was once rightfully yours. I mean seriously, it's one of the only few countries in the world that is still Communist. Go in there and kick some culito! For the sake of mankind somebody eliminate those pictures of Castro and his wobbly mouthgear. Is there a toothfairy in Cuba, or do they lack that as well?
January 21, 2007 | Unregistered Commenterwolfpack
Are you kidding me? My 4 year old nephew can work photoshop better than these people. I say the old fart is dead. Power to the Cuban- Americans in the United States. Take back what was once rightfully yours. I mean seriously, it's one of the only few countries in the world that is still Communist. Go in there and kick some culito! For the sake of mankind somebody eliminate those pictures of Castro and his wobbly mouthgear. Is there a toothfairy in Cuba, or do they lack that as well?
January 21, 2007 | Unregistered Commenterwolfpack
I am sending u a link to a presumed photo of Fidel Castro with Argentina's President Cristina Fernández taken 2 days ago. In Argentina there's a raging controversy right now about its authenticity. Dominant feeling it's a poor and crude attempt at photoshop. Would greatly welcome ur comments, thanks a lot. Link:

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1092714&pid=5732602&toi=6263
January 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterArgie
Fantastic Blog! Compliments on the top job!
January 7, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterPamelaAnderson
a man needed one bullet...why the U.S. supported a leader so long hostile?????
June 27, 2010 | Unregistered Commentergerovital h3
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