Jose Imperatori, former Cuban vice consul deported from the United States to Canada under charges of spying, ended Thursday a hunger strike that lasted five days, and started the trip back to his country, local television reported.

A Cuban government note says that Imperatori, who started the hunger strike protest last Saturday after being declared persona non grata by Washington, ended the strike at 1:40 hours and left Ottawa for the island in the afternoon.

Imperatori, a diplomat in Cuba Interests Section in Washington,was detained in his apartment in the U.S. capital by Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agents after he resigned his post

and his diplomatic immunity to demonstrate his innocence before the justice.

The U.S.authorities disregarded his demand and expelled him by force to Canadian territory.