After Long Silence, Fidel Castro Cautiously Backs Negotiations with US LatinDispatch.com
go to original January 27, 2015

Cuba's former President Fidel Castro attends the inauguration of the cultural center, Studio Kcho Romerillo, Laboratory for Art, in Havana, Cuba, in January, 2014. (Cubadebate/Estudios Revolucion)

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro broke over a month of silence on Monday by writing a letter expressing cautious praise of Cuba’s recent negotiations with the U.S seeking to normalize diplomatic relations.

“I don’t trust the policy of the United States, nor have I exchanged a word with them, but this does not mean I reject a pacific solution to the conflicts,” Castro wrote in a letter that was read at the University of Havana and published in the Communist Party newspaper Granma. “We will always defend cooperation and friendship with all the people of the world, including with our political adversaries.”

Castro retired from the presidency in 2008 because of poor health, leaving power to his brother Raúl.

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