While Obama was busy shaking hands and bowing to Cuba Communist leader Raul Castro, Alan Gross an American contractor is still jailed in Cuba. Obama smiled, bowed, and shook the hands of Castro with Alan Gross imprisoned in Cuba. Castro is trying to use Gross as a pawn to swap Cuban spies that were arrested in this country back in the ’90s under BJ Clinton.
Gross, an Agency for International Development contractor, was arrested on Dec. 3, 2009, and accused of smuggling sophisticated satellite and other telecommunications equipment to Cuba’s tiny Jewish community. Gross has said he was only trying to increase internet access in Cuba. But he was convicted by a Cuban court in March 2011 of crimes “against the independence and territorial integrity of the state” and sentenced to 15 years.
Since then, he has lost more than 100 pounds in the Cuban prison where he is being held, according to his wife, Judy, and supporters.