Fidel Castro Writes About Meeting with Cuban Five
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NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images(HAVANA, Cuba) — Fidel Castro met on Saturday with the Cuban Five, a quintet of agents convicted of espionage within the U.S. in a controversial 2001 trial which found them guilty of spying on anti-Fidel Castro groups.
Three of the five were released in December 2014, around the same time as the return of U.S. contractor Alan Gross, who had been imprisoned in Cuba for five years. The other two had been released in 2011 and 2014.
In a piece written by Castro for La Granma, the official newspaper of the Cuban government, the former Cuban President wrote about the unjust incarceration of the Cuban agents. He said that he met with them on Saturday for five hours.
The release of the last three Cuban agents came as President Obama announced a normalization of relations between the U.S. and Cuba. Last month, Castro wrote in an op-ed for La Granma that he did not have confidence in U.S. policy.
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