article_snippet.sent: The state-run Cubadebate website says Former Cuban president Fidel Castro greeted a group of Venezuelans visiting the capital of Havana.
article_snippet.sent: Images of Former Cuban president Fidel Castro meeting with Venezuelan visitors to Havana were reported in Cuban media on Friday, though the encounters were said to take place on Monday .
article_snippet.sent: The state-run Cubadebate website said the encounter occurred Monday, but did not explain the delay in publishing the photos.
article_snippet.sent: In February and March of this year, official Cuban media published photographs of Former Cuban president Fidel Castro taken during private meetings with a Cuban student leader and with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
article_snippet.sent: Though Monday's reported appearance is Former Cuban president Fidel Castro first in public since a landmark deal to reestablish ties between the US and Cuba, Former Cuban president Fidel Castro met with spies released by the US in the agreement earlier this year .
article_snippet.sent: Former Cuban president Fidel Castro also appeared with the Cuban agents who were freed from prison in December after a landmark agreement between the Obama administration and Former Cuban president Fidel Castro brother Raul to reestablish ties between the island and the US.
article_snippet.sent: Cuban media said that Former Cuban president Fidel Castro's meeting went off 'without the slightest of problems' and Fidel urged Fidel residents to write to Obama and urge Fidel to stop saying that Venezuela y was a threat.
article_snippet.sent: Above, Former Cuban president Fidel Castro presented an award to the Cuban Five spies in February .
highlights_snippet.sent: Cuban leader met Venezuelans in Havana 'for hours,' state media says .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Longtime president had met in private with Cuban spies in February .