Reply #59: Citing a tabloid like The Telegraph doesn't lend any credibility to your claims

[struggle4progress]

It's true, of course, that Spain does not regard Castillo et al as general threats, hence offered as part of an ongoing initiative to accept them if Cuba would release them, which Cuba agreed to do: I have no cause to fault Spain's judgment of the matter. But the fact, that Spain so judged the cases, does not really cast any light on whether the charges were true

If you want to argue that Castillo wasn't working with/for the US, you need to address the evidence claimed to support the accusation, including a number of supposed meetings with American handlers in Cuba, connexions to Radio Marti, and possession of propaganda materials of US origin. Since the US has been engaged in such activities for some years now, and has a long history of working with disaffected Cubans, it is credible to me that (from time to time) there are some people who do this sort of thing, so perhaps the accusations against Castillo are not far-fetched

If it is difficult to decide what an appropriate Cuban response would be, one can nevertheless perform the following little thought experiment: imagine reaction in the US to news someone had cooperated with a foreign government X that had a long-standing objective of overthrowing the US government and in furtherance of that policy had an effective strategy for damaging the US economy. A little reflection should convince you: the fact, that person regularly met with representatives of government X and had possession of materials designed to further the objectives of government X, would be considered rather damning. Here in the US, the current regime threatened Susan Lindauer with a stiff prison term for much more benign activity than that (although psychiatric issues eventually precluded a trial)