Carter accepts Castro's invitation. (Insider Report).Former President Jimmy Carter, who of late spends much of his time jetting around the Third World, has recently added another country to his busy itinerary: Cuba. According to according toprep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Deanna Congileo, director of public information for the Carter Center The Carter Center is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. It is located at 453 Freedom Parkway in Atlanta, Georgia. in Atlanta, the U.S. government has granted approval to Carter to travel to the impoverished, Marxist country, and the former Georgia governor is tentatively planning to go sometime in May. Carter's visit will be the first by any sitting or former U.S. president during Fidel Castro's 43-year tenure as Cuban dictator dictator, originally a Roman magistrate appointed to rule the state in times of emergency; in modern usage, an absolutist or autocratic ruler who assumes extraconstitutional powers. From 501 B.C. until the abolition of the office in 44 B.C., Rome had 88 dictators. . Carter has long been an outspoken opponent of the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba. He has had a long-standing personal invitation from Fidel Castro Noun 1. Fidel Castro - Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) Castro, Fidel Castro Ruz to visit the island prison-state. |
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