Alan Gross, newly released after five years in a Cuban prison, thanked his wife, his lawyer, the Jewish community, President Obama and numerous others in helping secure his freedom. Speaking at a news conference Wednesday in Washington, Gross opened his statement with a Hanukkah greeting and a thank you to Obama. “Chag sameach,” he said….
President Barack Obama announced the United States would restore diplomatic relations it severed with Cuba more than 50 years ago, drawing resistance from lawmakers opposed to reconciling with the communist-run island. After 18 months of secret talks facilitated by the Vatican and Canada, Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro agreed by phone on Tuesday on…
President Obama said the United States has been “in conversations” about trying to free American-Jewish contractor Alan Gross from a Cuban jail. “We’ve been in conversations about how we can get Alan Gross home for quite some time,” Obama told Jorge Ramos of the Florida-based Fusion television network, a sister to ABC. Obama said the…
The wife of Alan Gross said “I am afraid that we are at the end” as the American-Jewish contractor marked the completion of his fifth year in a Cuban prison. Wednesday was the first day of Gross’ sixth year of a 15-year prison term for “crimes against the state.” Gross 65, of Potomac, Md., reportedly…
A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday rejected a lawsuit filed against the U.S. government by an American contractor imprisoned in Cuba who says he was not warned about the risks of working on the communist-controlled island. Alan Gross and his wife Judy filed the $60 million lawsuit in November 2012 for gross negligence…
Alan Gross, the Jewish government contractor jailed in Cuba for crimes against the state may be closer to returning home, in part because he has threatened to end his life if he is not released, a U.S. senator said on Tuesday. The detention of Gross since December 2009 has increased tensions in already troubled U.S.-Cuban…
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro described Israel’s offensive in Gaza as a “new, repugnant form of fascism.” Castro made his comments in a column published Tuesday in the Granma newspaper, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, titled “Palestinian Holocaust in Gaza. ” “Why does the government of this country…
Alan Gross’ family says the State Department contractor jailed in Cuba has made his goodbyes. “During a recent visit with his wife, Judy, and his daughter, Nina, Gross said he could not take life in prison much longer and said his goodbyes,” Emily Black, a spokeswoman for the family said in a statement sent Monday…
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