TyroneSlothrop
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I would be all for it if the people of Cuba actually got freedom, but they will not have freedom of speech or freedom of the press or property rights.
How is it that you know "they will not have freedom of speech or freedom of the press or property rights" ? a serious question how do you know the above ?
Because of the regimes ideology.
Have you heard anything at all from that Government that the people will have freedom of the press or speech?
Alan Gross was arrested in 2009 for trying to give the small Jewish community who has a tiny bit more freedom than the rest of Cuba. freedom to provide communications equipment to break the Cuban government's 'information blockade'
Press Release 8220 Secret Files of Alan Gross 8221 Debunk State Department Cover Story Says the Center for Democracy in the Americas
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March 22, 2013 |CDA
Press Release: “Secret Files of Alan Gross” Debunk State Department Cover Story, Says the Center for Democracy in the Americas
Documents released by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, hearing a $60 million lawsuit filed by imprisoned USAID subcontractor Alan Gross, describe a broad mission vastly exceeding State Department explanations of his activities.
The plan Gross wrote and submitted to his employer DAI, a federal contractor in Maryland, was conceived, in his words, to “change the status quo” and “hasten a transition to democracy,” using U.S. government funds set aside for “transition-to-democracy initiatives.”
According to a detailed analysis by Tracey Eaton, an investigative journalist, Gross’s plan cited the strategic importance of Cuba’s Jewish community, which he believed could be used as a “secure springboard” to reach others in Cuba, including 30,000 members of the country’s Masonic Lodges.
An infographic included in his plan also cites additional targets: “Youth, women and Afro-Cubans.”
Gross’s plan says U.S.-based humanitarian organizations that take computers and other supplies to Jews in Cuba could be useful in DAI’s democracy project. He didn’t explain in detail what he had in mind, but one possibility is that these groups could be used, perhaps unwittingly, to shuttle equipment to Cuba.
Eaton released his analysis today, as part of an on-going collaboration with the Center for Democracy in the Americas (CDA).
Rather than disclosing the larger purpose of his mission, the State Department has responded to questions from reporters by claiming Mr. Gross was focused only on connecting Cuba’s Jewish community to the Internet.