• Submitted by: manso
• United States
• Politics and Government
• 08 / 28 / 2010

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Richardson says release of Cuban Five and Gross are not linked...I can easily see that in any official communications neither country would be linking the two cases. Gross was sent to Cuba specifically as part of the program to subvert the revolution.

The five Cubans are among many Cuba has had to send to Miami to protect itself against US-based terrorism. They may be two sides of the same struggle but they are worlds apart in that one is offensive and the other defensive. That doesn't necessarily mean there wouldn't be an unofficial tit for tat. And hopefully it would involving releasing more political prisoners from US prisons than just the five....

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson says he’s made progress in talks with Cuban officials on released a jailed US contractor. The contractor, Alan Gross,was arrested in December on suspicion of being a US spy after handing out equipment to Cuban opposition groups.

Speaking in Havana, Richardson rejected linking Gross’s case to the jailing of the Cuban Five, who are serving lengthy sentences in the US for trying to monitor violent right-wing Cuban exile groups responsible for attacks inside Cuba.

Bill Richardson: "The Obama administration asked me to raise at the highest levels the case of Alan Gross, and I’ve done so with several officials. I’ve been informed by the Cuban government that the Gross case is at a very sensitive investigatory and legal process. I do believe, as I want to emphasize, that I’ve made inroads on this case. I believe that the two cases of the Cuban Five and the Gross case are separate, and I believe both countries are treating them separately."

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