U.S. senators meet Raul Castro on relations

U.S. senators meet Raul Castro on relations
February 25 2012 at 12:00am
By Marc Frank

Raul Castro on Thursday night in what one characterized as a “wide-ranging discussion” that included the fate of imprisoned American contractor Alan Gross.

Castro rarely meets with U.S. officials, his last encounter being with members of the Congressional Black Caucus in 2009 and later, in 2010, with former President Jimmy Carter.

“We talked about everything from scuba diving to relations, and of course Alan Gross,” Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy said on Friday.

Richard Shelby, a Republican from Alabama, also participated in the meeting, which lasted more than two hours.

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