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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
In news from Cuba, President Raul Castro has commuted the sentences of an unspecified number of prisoners, including two South Americans accused of a bombing some ten years ago. Castro, in his statement to the Central Committee of the Communist Party said that his decision to reduce the sentences was not made from US pressure but "as a sovereign act in accordance with the humanitarian and ethical conduct of the country." The President, who has in the past exhibited a desire to negotiate reform within Cuba and also with the US, has reduced an unspecified number of sentences from the death penalty to life imprisonment in some instances and thirty years in others. It remains to be seen who the 'lucky' prisoners will be.
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