LewWaters
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 Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:26 pm Post subject: Kerry held secret talks with Cuba to free Alan Gross |
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Leave it to Kerry to assure Communist regimes Americans efforts at democracy "would change."
| Quote: | “The Cubans were far less flexible than the Americans expected. The U.S. … wanted Cuba to release Gross, and only then would it press ahead on any other policy changes,” he wrote. “Rodríguez allegedly lectured Valenzuela for roughly an hour on Cuba’s history of grievances.”
A month later, at the request of Cuban diplomats in Washington and with State Department approval, Kerry met with Rodríguez at the home of Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations in New York, according to the report.
“There was no quid pro quo, but the meeting seemed to reassure the Cubans that the democracy programs would change, and the Cubans expressed confidence” that Gross would be freed after his trial, which was held in March of 2011, the report noted. |
Full article at the Miami Herald
See also an earlier article: John Kerry’s nomination as secretary of state raises hopes, fears over Cuba policy
| Quote: | | "Sen. John Kerry has questioned U.S. pro-democracy spending in Cuba, and endorsed the embargo but favors liberal travel to the island." |
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