2010-02-19 / Jeff Franks (Reuters)
HAVANA (Reuters) - The wife of a U.S. contractor jailed in Havana denied Cuban allegations he was working for U.S. espionage services and said she hopes his case will be resolved at U.S.-Cuba migration talks on Friday.
In her first extensive comments since his December 4 detention, Judy Gross told Reuters via email on Thursday that husband Alan Gross has "never been involved in any way with any intelligence agency whatsoever."
Cuban officials including President Raul Castro have accused him of illegally providing satellite communications gear to dissidents and suggested he may be a U.S. spy.
But his wife said he is simply a professional do-gooder who works on development projects in emerging countries. ...more
2013-04-22 / The Miami Herald
Cuba saw a record number of “politically motivated and at times violent short-term detentions” during 2012, according to the U.S. State Department’s “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” which was released Friday...more
2013-04-18 / The Washington Post
Members of Cuba’s Ladies in White opposition group will finally pick up Europe’s top human rights prize from 2005 in person next week in Belgium, the European Union and the daughter of the group’s former leader said Wednesday...more
2013-04-16 / The Washington Post
Cubans were relieved Monday by the announcement that the late leader Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor had been elected Venezuela’s new president, apparently allowing their country to dodge a threatened cutoff of billions of dollars in subsidized oil...more
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