Cubans to open talks about US fugitives including Assata Shakur as ties warm

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Cubans to open talks about US fugitives including Assata Shakur as ties warm

Associated Press in Havana
Wednesday 15 April 2015 21.45 BST

The US and Cuba will open talks about two of the United States’ most-wanted fugitives as part of a new dialogue about law-enforcement cooperation made possible by President Barack Obama’s decision to remove Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terror, the State Department has announced.

Jeff Rathke, a State Department spokesman, said Cuba had agreed to talks about fugitives including Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, who was granted asylum by Fidel Castro after she escaped from a US prison where she was serving a sentence for killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973. The US and Cuba will also discuss the case of William Morales, a Puerto Rican nationalist wanted in connection with bombings in New York in the 1970s.

“We see the re-establishment of diplomatic relations and the reopening of an embassy in Havana as the means by which we’ll be able, more effectively, to press the Cuban government on law enforcement issues such as fugitives. And Cuba has agreed to enter into a law-enforcement dialogue with the United States that will work to resolve these cases,” Rathke said. The dialogue is also expected to address cooperation on more routine crimes, officials said.

A Cuban government spokesman did not return calls seeking comment on Wednesday, but Josefina Vidal, Cuba’s top diplomat for US affairs, recently ruled out any return of political refugees.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/15/cuban-us-fugitives-open-talks-terror-list-ties-warm

[OutNow]

1. OK, then let's include Luis Posada Carriles

There are more than a few folks living in the Miami area that would be classified as terrorists by any rational evaluation. Chief among them is Luis Posada Carriles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles

And there are those Cuban exiles and US government officials responsible for the Bay of Pigs invasion that would obviously be defined as terrorists.

Let's send them all the Havana to stand trial.

[geek tragedy]

2. that's a fair trade in my book nt