Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced Tuesday that his government would release 553 prisoners following talks with the Vatican, a decision announced just hours after the Biden administration said that would make a series of sanctions on the island more flexible.
“As is common practice in our legal system, we made the unilateral and sovereign decision to grant freedom to 553 people punished for various crimes,” Díaz-Canel said in a message on the X social network.
“As part of the close and fluid relations with the Vatican State, I informed Pope Francis of this decision in the spirit of the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025 declared by His Holiness and which has just begun,” the leader added.
Meanwhile, the Cuban government praised Washington’s decision to ease restrictions and called it a “measure in the right direction,” but stressed that it could be too little, too late, adding that future US administrations could reverse them.
“I thank all those who contributed to the decision announced today by the United States to exclude Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, which should never have been on and which, together with two other measures adopted, has had a high cost for the country. and Cuban families,” said Díaz-Canel in X.
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