The former U.S. president Jimmy Carter arrived Monday in Cuba at a time when tensions between Havana and Washington have again raised in the wake of U.S. contractor Alan Gross, who was recently sentenced to 15 years in prison on the island charged with "subversion" . This is Carter's second trip in nine years, and takes place in a very special, on the eve of the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba has to define the content and scope of economic reforms, when the authorities openly admit that dilemma is to change and "update model" or succumb.
The first visit of exmandatario Democrat. then invited by Fidel Castro, was in 2002 and had great international repercussion. At that time Carter came to the defense of the dissident movement, specifically the Varela Project, Oswaldo Payá of the Christian Democratic opposition, while condemning the U.S.
policy of embargo that he asserted when he was president between 1977 and 1981. This time, Carter was invited to Havana by President Raul Castro, who will meet tomorrow at the Palace of the Revolution. The American exmandatario, 86, was accompanied by his wife Rosalynn and was greeted at the airport by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.
Monday was scheduled to meet with Jewish community leaders and then with Cardinal Jaime Ortega, the architect of an unprecedented process of dialogue with the Government that has allowed the release of more than a hundred opponents in the past nine months, including 52 prisoners of conscience of so-called Group of 75.
Before the trip, the Carter Center announced that the visit was a "private" and that its purpose was to receive information on reforms promoted by Raúl Castro and evaluate the possibilities of a rapprochement between two countries, which severed diplomatic ties in 1961. At the time he was president, Carter starred in the most serious attempt at rapprochement between the two countries and led to the establishment interest offices in Havana and Washington.
One case that the former deal with Raul Castro is to Alan Gross, who was arrested on the island since 2009. He was accused of illegally bringing satellite communications equipment in the service of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for the purpose of fomenting subversion and "undermining the independence and sovereignty of the State", for which he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a Cuban court last month.
Washington says he is innocent and was just trying to help Cubans to connect to the Internet, and warned Havana not be any rapprochement with Cuba while Gross is in prison. Thus frozen the timid process of detente between the two countries since Barack Obama to the White House, and Carter is now seen by analysts as the best mediator to break the deadlock and secure the release of Gross.
Not yet confirmed a possible meeting with Fidel Castro carter, although it is possible. 
The first visit of exmandatario Democrat. then invited by Fidel Castro, was in 2002 and had great international repercussion. At that time Carter came to the defense of the dissident movement, specifically the Varela Project, Oswaldo Payá of the Christian Democratic opposition, while condemning the U.S.
policy of embargo that he asserted when he was president between 1977 and 1981. This time, Carter was invited to Havana by President Raul Castro, who will meet tomorrow at the Palace of the Revolution. The American exmandatario, 86, was accompanied by his wife Rosalynn and was greeted at the airport by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.
Monday was scheduled to meet with Jewish community leaders and then with Cardinal Jaime Ortega, the architect of an unprecedented process of dialogue with the Government that has allowed the release of more than a hundred opponents in the past nine months, including 52 prisoners of conscience of so-called Group of 75.
Before the trip, the Carter Center announced that the visit was a "private" and that its purpose was to receive information on reforms promoted by Raúl Castro and evaluate the possibilities of a rapprochement between two countries, which severed diplomatic ties in 1961. At the time he was president, Carter starred in the most serious attempt at rapprochement between the two countries and led to the establishment interest offices in Havana and Washington.
One case that the former deal with Raul Castro is to Alan Gross, who was arrested on the island since 2009. He was accused of illegally bringing satellite communications equipment in the service of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for the purpose of fomenting subversion and "undermining the independence and sovereignty of the State", for which he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a Cuban court last month.
Washington says he is innocent and was just trying to help Cubans to connect to the Internet, and warned Havana not be any rapprochement with Cuba while Gross is in prison. Thus frozen the timid process of detente between the two countries since Barack Obama to the White House, and Carter is now seen by analysts as the best mediator to break the deadlock and secure the release of Gross.
Not yet confirmed a possible meeting with Fidel Castro carter, although it is possible.
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