Cuba Maintains Prisoner Swap Offer

HAVANA TIMES, Jan. 29 — Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque told the press on Wednesday that the offer made by President Raul Castro in Brazil still stands to exchange political prisoners, estimated at more than 200 by “dissident” sources, for the Cuban Five, imprisoned in the United States for over a decade after an irregularity-plagued Miami trial, reported IPS.

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