Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro looks to be backing talks with the United States in his first comments on the subject since both countries agreed to restore diplomatic ties.
Cuba’s Communist Party newspaper Granma published a statement in which the 88-year-old said:
“Any peaceful or negotiated solution to the problems between the United States and the peoples or any people of Latin America that does not imply force or the use of force should be treated in
accordance with international norms and principles. We will always
defend cooperation and friendship with all the peoples of the world,
among them our political adversaries.”
Fidel stopped short of enthusiastically endorsing the rapprochement
with his longtime foe, announced in December by his brother and Cuba’s current president, Raul Castro, and US President Obama.
He said: “I don’t trust the policy of the United States nor have I had an exchange with them, but this does not mean … a rejection of a peaceful solution to