Castro: Meet Obama at Gitmo
Cuban President Raul Castro said in an interview released Wednesday that he would like to meet President-elect Barack Obama on "neutral ground" — and he suggested the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
The Cuban leader’s offer came in a rare interview in Havana with actor-director Sean Penn, who wrote about it for the Dec. 15 edition of The Nation magazine.
Penn asked if Castro would meet with Obama in Washington. The Cuban president said it would not be fair for either leader to go to the other’s territory. Instead he suggested the base at Guantanamo.
"We must meet and begin to solve our problems, and at the end of the meeting, we could give the president a gift ... we could send him home with the American flag that waves over Guantanamo Bay," Castro said.
