This television image provided by Cubavision shows former Cuban president Fidel Castro speaking during an interview in Havana on Monday, July 12, 2010, on the "Mesa Redonda" -- or "Round Table" -- a daily Cuban talk show on current events. It was a rare appearance for Mr. Castro, who has stayed largely out of the public eye since a serious illness four years ago forced him from power. (AP Photo/APTN via Cubavision)
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro (left) sits with an unidentified man during a visit to the National Center for Scientific Investigation in Havana on Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Mr. Castro had not been photographed in public since falling seriously ill in July 2006. (AP Photo/Cubadebate-Alex Castro)
Laura Pollan speaks with hospitalized dissident Guillermo Farinas on the phone after Cuba's Roman Catholic Church said that the government has agreed to free 52 political prisoners and allow them to leave the country in Havana on Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Ms. Pollan is the leader of Ladies in White, an organization made up of wives and mothers of political prisoners, and her husband Hector Maseda is one of the 52 people expected to be released. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
President Obama signs four executive orders, including one to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the Oval Office on Jan. 22, 2009, as Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. looks on. Dana Perino, who was press secretary at the end of the Bush administration, said she watched with amusement during the 2008 campaign as Mr. Obama made promises she knew he would be hard-pressed to keep. (The Washington Times)
** FILE ** In this May 13, 2009, file photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, a U.S. trooper walks near an entrance to the Guantanamo detention facility at dawn, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
In this April 3, 2010 photo, Elian Gonzalez attends the Union of Young Communists congress in Havana. Gonzalez was at the center of an international custody battle 10 years ago when federal agents stormed the Miami home of his father's relatives on April 22, 2000, putting him on a path back to his father in Cuba. Fisherman found Gonzalez floating in an inner tube in the waters off Fort Lauderdale on Thanksgiving 1999 as he was traveling with his mother who drowned trying to reach the U.S. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Prensa Latina)
A crowd of media photographs Juan Miguel Gonzalez and his son Elian Gonzalez as they board a private jet that took them from Dulles International Airport to Havana, Cuba, June 28, 2000. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )
Cuban leader Fidel Castro reacts as he attends Elian Gonzalez's 9th birthday activities, Cardenas, east of Havana, Friday, Dec.06, 2002. Life has never been the same for the child since an ill-fated attempt to take him to the United States left his mother dead and made him the focus of an international tug-of-war between relatives in Miami and his father in Cardenas. On the right is Miriam Janet Martinez leader of the Cuban Pioneers. (AP Photo/Jose Goitia)
Juan Miguel Gonzalez speaks to the media, june 28, 2000, before he and his son Elian Gonzalez depart from Dulles International Airport on a charter flight to Havana, Cuba. ( Bert V. Goulait / The Washington Times )
