In a letter, published on the website of the communist party newspaper Granma, Castro said that although he didn’t “trust U.S. policies and have not exchanged a word with them, this does not mean however that I would oppose a peaceful solution to conflicts or threats of war.”
Last month Cuba and the United States exchanged prisoners and agreed to discuss normalizing relations that had been trapped in over five decades of Cold War animosity.
While the U.S. economic trade embargo remains in place, President Barack Obama announced he would lift some sanctions and ease travel restrictions for U.S. citizens wishing to visit the island.
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“We shall always defend the cooperation and friendship between all people, among them our political adversaries,” Fidel Castro wrote in the message published Monday.
“With this spirit, I have fought,” Castro concluded his letter, “and will continue fighting until my last breath.”
