Juan O. Tamayo, Miami Herald – Secretary of State John Kerry has declared the U.S. government will not swap five Cuban spies held in the United States for American Alan Gross, serving a 15-year prison term in Havana, but is pushing to win his release as a “humanitarian gesture.” “They… read more »
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Tag Archives: Cuban Five
March 1, 2013
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Reality Check
The same day that a bipartisan Congressional delegation left Cuba, the Boston Globe triggered a brief and unsatisfactory debate when it reported that “High-level US diplomats have concluded that Cuba should no longer be designated a state sponsor of terrorism.” That Cuba should be removed from the list has long been the… read more »
January 11, 2013
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Like Wishing Upon a Star: Most Travel Restrictions (On Cubans) Vanish Monday
Next week, when Cuba drops travel restrictions on most of its citizens, Ana Liliam Garcia, a 16-year-old, plans on chasing a dream: “I would like to see Disneyland in the United States,” she told the Associated Press. “I’ll be able to travel!” You can argue whether this represents a triumph… read more »
December 2, 2012
Cuba pushes swap: its spies jailed in US for American contractor held in Havana
Michael Isikoff, NBC- It seems straight out of a Cold War spy movie. A group of Cuban undercover agents sneak into the U.S. and set up a secret pro-Castro network in south Florida — receiving instructions in code through late night radio transmissions from handlers in Havana. But the FBI… read more »
November 30, 2012
Cuba Central Newsblast:Double Talk at State and Doubling Down on USAID’s Regime Change Strategy
We report on a flurry of activity concerning the case of Alan Gross, just days before the third anniversary of his arrest in Cuba, an event marked at a press conference in Washington this morning by his wife Judy Gross, understandably disconsolate, with his lawyer, Jared Genser, by her side…. read more »
November 30, 2012
Cuba Central Newsblast:Double Talk at State and Doubling Down on USAID’s Regime Change Strategy
We report on a flurry of activity concerning the case of Alan Gross, just days before the third anniversary of his arrest in Cuba, an event marked at a press conference in Washington this morning by his wife Judy Gross, understandably disconsolate, with his lawyer, Jared Genser, by her side…. read more »
September 21, 2012
*** As we published this week’s blast, news alerts were issued that the “People’s Mujehedeen,” or MEK, is being removed from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations, based in part, the NY Times is reporting, on the MEK’s cooperation in moving 3,000 of its members out of its long… read more »
September 14, 2012
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: And Justice for Some
We open this week with a story about justice, one that will have special resonance for those who remember victims of atrocity and terror in the 1970s and the 1980s, and for others whose accounts have not yet been settled. On September 11, a retired Salvadoran military officer with the… read more »
September 14, 2012
U.S.: No deal with Cuba on release of American
Associated Press - A U.S. State Department spokesperson said Thursday the U.S. does not see any willingness on Cuba’s part to seriously discuss the release of imprisoned American contractor Alan Gross, and urged Havana to send him home as a humanitarian gesture. State Department spokeswoman Neda Brown was responding to a… read more »
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