The ex president of Cuba Fidel Castro met last Saturday with the Five Cuban agents who were imprisoned in the US for espionage, as related by the revolutionary leader in an article published Monday in the official media of the island.
"I received them on Saturday 28 February, 73 days after they stepped on Cuban territory," writes Fidel Castro at the beginning of his article, which states him as "happy" for this meeting, which lasted five hours, and held at the home of president.
The "Five Heroes Antiterroristas" as it is known in Cuba Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Rene Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez were arrested in 1998 in the US when the Federal Bureau of Investigation dismantled the network of Cuban espionage "Wasp" , acting in southern Florida, and were sentenced in 2001 to imprisonment.
In his article, Fidel Castro ex spies stresses that "never did any harm to the United States." "They tried to forestall and prevent terrorist acts against our people organized by US intelligence agencies that the whole world is well aware," the Cuban leader.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Colombia: Santos sends military aides to negociate FARC ceasefires
President Juan Manuel Santos, will send a top delegation of military corps to negotiate a formal ceasefire with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Santos said during a forum for Colombia's peace celebrated in Madrid, that there will be traveling six persons from the military.
After more than two years of conversations with unevenness among Bogota and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Cuba, agreements have been reached in three points: agricultural development, political participation of the guerrillas and drug trafficking cease.
Nevertheless, there still remain two of the most delicate aspects. "We agreed that there will be discussed simultaneously the victims topic, transitional justice, which is the major issue, and the fifth point that is in fact, the cease of the conflict by a DDR: disarmament, demobilization and reimbursement" of the guerrilla to civil life, he explains.
" The cessation the definitive fire has to be negotiated under a few very clear rules, is a complex topic ", he has affirmed. For this motive " we have decided that they should be the own active military men those who negotiate in Havana" said the president, assuring to have informed the armed forces about the whole process of peace " inclusive in the secret phase ".
Santos said during a forum for Colombia's peace celebrated in Madrid, that there will be traveling six persons from the military.
After more than two years of conversations with unevenness among Bogota and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Cuba, agreements have been reached in three points: agricultural development, political participation of the guerrillas and drug trafficking cease.
Nevertheless, there still remain two of the most delicate aspects. "We agreed that there will be discussed simultaneously the victims topic, transitional justice, which is the major issue, and the fifth point that is in fact, the cease of the conflict by a DDR: disarmament, demobilization and reimbursement" of the guerrilla to civil life, he explains.
" The cessation the definitive fire has to be negotiated under a few very clear rules, is a complex topic ", he has affirmed. For this motive " we have decided that they should be the own active military men those who negotiate in Havana" said the president, assuring to have informed the armed forces about the whole process of peace " inclusive in the secret phase ".
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