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  • 2020-09-07 (xsd:date)
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  • Does This Photo Show Jill Biden Posing With Fidel Castro? (en)
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  • An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows Jill Biden, the wife of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, posing with the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Verdict: False The image shows late Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his wife Jacqueline Beer posing with Castro. Fact Check: The image shows Castro in what appears to be green fatigues while posing with a blonde woman and an elderly man. The caption, roughly translated from Spanish, reads , Joe Biden did not expect this photo to exist, nothing is hidden under the sun: Jill Biden had a meeting with Fidel Castro in Cuba under the Obama administration! But the woman pictured is not Jill Biden. Through a reverse image search, the Daily Caller News Foundation found the photo in a 2016 Facebook post from the Kon-Tiki Museum , a museum dedicated to the life of Heyerdahl, a late Norwegian explorer. The post identifies the two people with Castro as Heyerdahl and Beer , Heyerdahl’s wife and a French actress. I can confirm that this photo shows Jacqueline Beer to the right (widow of the late Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002 and living in Tenerife, Spain), Fidel Castro in the middle, and Thor Heyerdahl on the left, said Martin Biehl , director of the museum, in an email to the DCNF. This is not Jill Biden, Rosemary Boeglin, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, also confirmed in an email to the DCNF. (RELATED: Viral Image Claims These Public Figures Are The Children Of Dictators And Occultists) While Jill Biden did visit Cuba in October 2016 to meet with government officials and engage with a diverse range of Cubans on topics related to culture, education, and health, according to a White House press release , the DCNF found no indication that she met with Castro in publicly available news reports. Castro retired from the presidency in 2008, according to The New York Times . All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact [email protected] . (en)
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