RePortersNoteBook.com: Another piece in the quest for regimen change somewhere in the world

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From: Manuel Sotil <msotil@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:32 PM
Subject: Another piece in the quest for regimen change somewhere in the world - Alan Gross and Cuba espionage
To: ReporterNotebook <RePorterNoteBook@gmail.com>

On February 4, the Cuban government announced it will demand a 20-year prison sentence for U.S. citizen Alan Gross. The 61-year-old Maryland resident was arrested in December 2009 in Havana after visiting Cuba to distribute satellite phones to Jewish and other civil society groups(?). Although details of his activities remain sketchy, Gross was employed by Development Alternatives, Inc., a U.S. State Department contractor, rendering democracy support work in the field. Gross was helping deliver technologies of freedom that Cuba's leaders greatly fear.

After over a year in jail, Gross, who is in declining health, is now formally charged with the commission of acts against "the integrity and independence" of Cuba. A Havana show trial will soon follow. When arrested in Cuba, Mr. Gross was traveling on a tourist visa despite working as an "independent business and economic development consultant" to Development Alternatives, Inc., a U.S. Government contractor that hired him with part of the $8.6 million contract they received from USAID for "democracy promotion" in Cuba.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110224/ap_on_re_us/us_cuba_detained_american

In other words, the American tourist, was engaged in what our government calls "democracy promotion" in Cuba.

The connection between "Jewish groups" and "democracy promotion" remains to be articulated, but don't spend too much time trying to find out such explanation for it wont be forthcoming anytime soon (not even by such ingenious word-smith as Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice)

Manuel Sotil

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