EU Official Urges Castro to Free Dissidents
From Times Wire Reports
European Union Development Commissioner Louis Michel urged Cuban President Fidel Castro to release more than 60 imprisoned dissidents during a visit to Cuba to reopen talks between Brussels and Havana.
The Cuban leader expressed interest in mending relations with Europe during the four-hour meeting that lasted until 1 a.m. Saturday, Michel’s spokesman Amadeu Altafaj Tardio said.
EU relations with Cuba were frozen two years ago after Castro ordered a crackdown on critics of his one-party Marxist state.
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