Cuba's President Raul Castro, has received this Tuesday in Havana by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who reiterated his government's willingness to dialogue with Washington but on equal terms, without conditions and with respect for the independence and sovereignty of the island. In his second day in Cuba, Carter met Tuesday with Raul Castro at the Revolution Palace in Havana, where they discussed the current international situation, the situation in Cuba and the United States and the relations between both countries, the report offered by state television.
Hosted by Raul Castro, Jimmy Carter courses from last Monday's second visit to Cuba-the first was in 2002 - with a busy schedule despite being marketed as a trip to a "private and non-governmental organization" sponsored by the non- Government presiding. The former Democratic president, in brief remarks to reporters Tuesday, said he hopes to help improve relations between Cuba and the United States and that its purpose is to visit Havana citizens of the island and its authorities.
Carter's arrival in Cuba comes at a time marked by the recent sentencing to 15 years in U.S. jail contractor Alan Gross for engaging in "subversive plan" against the island, a case that has become a new source of tension between both countries. But Carter said that Cuba is to lift the country's Gross Alan, but he did confirm he has been able to discuss your situation with case managers.
As reported last week, the Carter Center, one of the purposes of the visit of American president is to understand the new economic policies promoted on the island by Raul Castro, in his plan to "upgrade" the socialist model which will be ratified at the Sixth Communist Party congress scheduled for mid April.
Outside the official agenda, it was learned Tuesday that the former will be tomorrow, Wednesday, last day of his visit, several members of the dissidents, former political prisoners and critics and bloggers Yoani Sánchez. In his first visit to Cuba in 2002, Carter held a meeting of more than two hours with the leaders of Cuba's internal opposition from all political persuasions.
On this occasion, have been invited to meet Osvaldo Paya, Sakharov Prize 2002 of the European Parliament and promoter of the Varela Project and the spokesman of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN), Elizardo Sanchez. They have also been invited former political prisoners of the Group of 75 released in recent weeks and the Ladies in White, this group of relatives of dissidents.
Indeed, Carter was pleased with the process of releases of these prisoners of conscience, concluded last week during a meeting Monday with Cardinal Jaime Ortega, the highest Catholic authority on the island and mediator with the Government in these releases. Not be ruled out that morning before leaving Cuba, Jimmy Carter see also former president Fidel Castro, who was his host in 2002, although the eventual meeting has not been confirmed.
Carter, 86, American political figure is the highest level you have visited Cuba since the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, and the island has been considered a "distinguished visitor." 
Hosted by Raul Castro, Jimmy Carter courses from last Monday's second visit to Cuba-the first was in 2002 - with a busy schedule despite being marketed as a trip to a "private and non-governmental organization" sponsored by the non- Government presiding. The former Democratic president, in brief remarks to reporters Tuesday, said he hopes to help improve relations between Cuba and the United States and that its purpose is to visit Havana citizens of the island and its authorities.
Carter's arrival in Cuba comes at a time marked by the recent sentencing to 15 years in U.S. jail contractor Alan Gross for engaging in "subversive plan" against the island, a case that has become a new source of tension between both countries. But Carter said that Cuba is to lift the country's Gross Alan, but he did confirm he has been able to discuss your situation with case managers.
As reported last week, the Carter Center, one of the purposes of the visit of American president is to understand the new economic policies promoted on the island by Raul Castro, in his plan to "upgrade" the socialist model which will be ratified at the Sixth Communist Party congress scheduled for mid April.
Outside the official agenda, it was learned Tuesday that the former will be tomorrow, Wednesday, last day of his visit, several members of the dissidents, former political prisoners and critics and bloggers Yoani Sánchez. In his first visit to Cuba in 2002, Carter held a meeting of more than two hours with the leaders of Cuba's internal opposition from all political persuasions.
On this occasion, have been invited to meet Osvaldo Paya, Sakharov Prize 2002 of the European Parliament and promoter of the Varela Project and the spokesman of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN), Elizardo Sanchez. They have also been invited former political prisoners of the Group of 75 released in recent weeks and the Ladies in White, this group of relatives of dissidents.
Indeed, Carter was pleased with the process of releases of these prisoners of conscience, concluded last week during a meeting Monday with Cardinal Jaime Ortega, the highest Catholic authority on the island and mediator with the Government in these releases. Not be ruled out that morning before leaving Cuba, Jimmy Carter see also former president Fidel Castro, who was his host in 2002, although the eventual meeting has not been confirmed.
Carter, 86, American political figure is the highest level you have visited Cuba since the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, and the island has been considered a "distinguished visitor."
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