HAVANA -- Cuban state media have released a second recent photo showing Fidel Castro in regular civilian clothing instead of the track suits that he commonly wore after falling ill in July 2006.
In the picture, the 83-year-old Castro is shaking hands with the visiting head of the Chinese parliament in the walled backyard of an undisclosed home.
Castro is wearing a red, short-sleeve dress shirt as he greets National People's Congress leader Wu Bangguo. The pair are surrounded by plants and a house is in the background. Castro has rarely been shown outside since he stepped down as president in February 2008.
The photo was taken Thursday by Fidel's son Alex Castro, a photographer for the Communist Youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde. It was published Friday in the newspaper and in the Communist Party daily Granma.
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