Key insights
- Cuba released a list of prisoners freed in April amid US negotiations. While a positive sign for US-Cuba relations, the direct impact on US equities is minimal. A slight reduction in geopolitical risk premium might be factored in, but broader economic implications are limited.
HAVANA, May 25 (Reuters) - Cuba’s government on Monday published a complete list of the names of prisoners who authorities had released following an April amnesty that came amid tense and ongoing negotiations between the island’s government and the United States.
Cuba said in April it planned to free more than 2,000 prisoners from the island’s jails, the second time this year its communist-run government had announced a prisoner amnesty.
The government had not previously released the identities of those released.