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Now that the economy has gone down the tubes, the only thing propping-up the Cuban dictatorship is everyone's favourite socialist dictator Hugo Chavez
This unilateral diplomatic offering came without any strings attached.... which is tough luck for one American named Alan P. Gross.
Gross has been imprisoned without charges now for 14 months.
Gross was working for a firm contracted by the U.S. Agency for International Development when he was arrested Dec. 3, 2009, and sent to Havana’s high-security Villa Marista prison. The project Gross worked with was part of a $40 million-a-year USAID program.
Gross has now been formally charged with spying (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704709304576124770707916988.html?m g=com-wsj - broken link)
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Prosecutors are charging a jailed American contractor with “acts against the integrity and independence” of Cuba and requesting a 20-year jail term, state news media reported Friday, dimming hopes the 60-year-old Maryland native would be allowed to go home soon.
Rather than seek Gross’s release and the freedom of Cuban political prisoners as a condition to the easing of travel and money restrictions, the Obama administration granted huge concessions for nothing.
You do know that U.S. citizens have been traveling to Communist China now for a couple of decades, don't you?
Probably because we NEED China. And by the way, China isn't nearly as communist as Cuba. Still has human rights issues, I'll agree, but the US government is definitely more tolerant towards non-communist countries.
Good, these restrictions should have been lifted a long time ago. Fact is the travel restrictions to Cuba, hurt those with families in Cuba much more than it hurt Castro.
Now that the economy has gone down the tubes, the only thing propping-up the Cuban dictatorship is everyone's favourite socialist dictator Hugo Chavez
This unilateral diplomatic offering came without any strings attached.... which is tough luck for one American named Alan P. Gross.
Gross has been imprisoned without charges now for 14 months.
Gross was working for a firm contracted by the U.S. Agency for International Development when he was arrested Dec. 3, 2009, and sent to Havana’s high-security Villa Marista prison. The project Gross worked with was part of a $40 million-a-year USAID program.
Gross has now been formally charged with spying (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704709304576124770707916988.html?m g=com-wsj - broken link)Rather than seek Gross’s release and the freedom of Cuban political prisoners as a condition to the easing of travel and money restrictions, the Obama administration granted huge concessions for nothing.
When you use the word "nothing", you have just about summped up the positive attributes of the current occupant of the WH nicely.
But one makes you dumb years before you die by kiling brain cells quickly.Some never die from either one just contiue to cause dependency. Same as drugs.
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