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Empresas y finanzas

Cuba's Castro says "gestures" needed for U.S. talks


    BRASILIA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro said on Thursday that both the United States and Cuba needed to make "gestures" that could include the release of prisoners to pave the way for talks between him and incoming U.S. President Barack Obama.

    "Let's do gesture for gesture," Castro told reporters during a visit to the Brazilian capital Brasilia.

    "These prisoners you talk about -- they want us to let them go? They should tell us tomorrow. We'll send them with their families and everything. Give us back our five heroes. That is a gesture on both parts," he said, referring to five convicted Cuban spies in U.S. prison.

    (Reporting by Ray Colitt; writing by Stuart Grudgings, Editing by Sandra Maler)