Cuba is willing to abolish the death penalty, the Cuban...

Cuba is willing to abolish the death penalty, the Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega said. "It seems that the death penalty won't last long on the island," Ortega said, citing information leaked by Cuban state officials Ortega was speaking in El Salvador, where he was representing the Holy See at a national eucharistic congress. The Cardinal said he would continue to intercede to save the lives of two Salvador nationals condemned to death in Cuba for anti -Castro activities. Ernesto Cruz Leon and Otto Rodriguez Llerena were convicted of a series of attacks on Cuban hotels between July and September 1977. Among the victims of these attacks was an Italian tourist from Genoa, thirty-two-year-old Fabio Di Celmo.