Fidel Castro, the former President of Cuba, denied on Wednesday that the United States has influenced Cuba's decision to not allow the staying and landing of a Russian flight where former CIA analyst Edward Snowden was traveling.
As reported by La Nacion, the ex-Cuban president has denied such reports in his column "Reflections," published on Wednesday in the Cuban official media.
"I admire how brave and fair the Snowden statements are, which in my opinion, rendered a service to the world by revealing the disgustingly dishonest politics of the powerful empire that lies and deceives the world," wrote Castro.
This week, reports circulated in Russian newspapers, mainly in the Kommersant newspaper, that the Snowden flight was held in Moscow after Cuba reported to Russia that the flight would be diverted if the former CIA analyst was on it, according to the Los Tiempos newspaper. However, Castro denied these reports and said that everything was a lie.
Snowden, who unveiled to the international media evidence of a phone and internet espionage program operated by the U.S. government as a measure to "fight against terrorism", has been in Russia since August 1, when the Russian government accepted his request for political asylum for one year.
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