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(114,656 posts) Thu Dec 18, 2014, 09:45 AM Dec 2014

Jan/2014: Kerry to Vatican: Help free Jewish-American jailed in Cuba [View all]

If you only pay attention to MSM's corporate media you would be surprised at the Cuba developments. Those who paid attention to Kerry's career, positions, and his current efforts as SoS are not.

Kerry to Vatican: Help free Jewish-American jailed in Cuba

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday asked the Vatican to help win the release of a Jewish-American contractor Alan Gross who has been in a Cuban jail since 2009.

Kerry, the first Catholic U.S. secretary of state in more than 30 years, stopped at the Vatican on his way to Kuwait to hold talks with Pope Francis' top aide, Secretary of State Archbishop Pietro Parolin.

The talks mostly centered on the Middle East and efforts to bring an end to the Syrian civil war ahead of a peace conference in Geneva later this month.

"We talked also about Cuba and the need for respect for freedom of religion and freedom of, and respect for, human rights," Kerry told reporters after the meeting.

"I raised the issue of Alan Gross and his captivity, and we hope very much that there might be able to be assistance with respect to that issue," he said.
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http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.568623

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Good on SOS Kerry who has been working tirelessly across the Globe on so many issues and crises. Cha Dec 2014 #1

+100 MBS Dec 2014 #4

; ) blm Dec 2014 #8

Good on Kerry. nt msanthrope Dec 2014 #2

You'd never know this from the corporate media coverage. blm Dec 2014 #11

Of course! mylye2222 Dec 2014 #12

Our liberal media!!!! nt msanthrope Dec 2014 #16

Pseudo. liberal. mylye2222 Dec 2014 #19

Thanks very much for digging this up MBS Dec 2014 #3

I contrast it with the constant press praise of Clinton for anything and blm Dec 2014 #5

Yes indeed. MBS Dec 2014 #6

I concur. But most of the public is completely unaware and blm Dec 2014 #7

And that's why Hillary went after Kerry. PragmaticLiberal Dec 2014 #9

TeamClinton helped TeamBush target Kerry for many years. blm Dec 2014 #10

Did everything in their power mylye2222 Dec 2014 #14

" " " "n/t MBS Dec 2014 #15

Matter of name recognition as always. mylye2222 Dec 2014 #13

This isn't about Kerry vs. Cllnton. Hillary laid the groundwork for this during her term. pnwmom Dec 2014 #22

LOL - When she wrote her book she knew Kerry had begun laying the groundwork blm Dec 2014 #24

Yay!!! Everything to put the blanket at her! mylye2222 Dec 2014 #34

Your link helps demonstrate my point, so thanks. pnwmom Dec 2014 #35

Actions spurred by Obama's promise during the campaign. Not hers. blm Dec 2014 #39

She was working for President Obama as Secretary of State. Her actions pnwmom Dec 2014 #45

Baloney - we've seen this play out before. blm Dec 2014 #51

PS: If it WASN'T about Kerry vs HRC, then why did HER media team blanket blm Dec 2014 #25

Oh, stop making sense! MADem Dec 2014 #26

Kerry has always been gracious, even to those who have worked against him. blm Dec 2014 #27

Oh, I don't think that comment is accurate at all. MADem Dec 2014 #28

It had been 2 months - best to do it in front of largest crowd with Hillary2008 in mind. blm Dec 2014 #29

So now your argument is a guy with heart disease and his worried wife didn't do enough? MADem Dec 2014 #31

Standard Dem campaign photo ops with Hillary2008 in mind. blm Dec 2014 #38

Are you serious? MADem Dec 2014 #44

Sorry you don't like it but, plenty of us saw the same thing blm Dec 2014 #49

I refuse to subscribe to a childish notion that Democrats who have the same goals are enemies. MADem Dec 2014 #52

It is in no way childish. mylye2222 Dec 2014 #58

The Clintons PUBLICLY campaigned FOR Kerry...while PRIVATELY stabbing him fir their own 2008 bid. mylye2222 Dec 2014 #41

Yeah, sure! Whatever you say! MADem Dec 2014 #43

Her book spoke of this as something she had wished had happened -- there is nothing to karynnj Dec 2014 #60

Yes,there is. She was the S of S during the time when Obama pnwmom Dec 2014 #61

There were changes made in the first term and there were unsuccessful efforts to get Gross back karynnj Dec 2014 #62

How do you know what she did behind the scenes? No one does. pnwmom Dec 2014 #63

I am just going by what she wrote karynnj Dec 2014 #64

I suspect that the reason Kerry might not get the recognition on this and the China pact in the MSM karynnj Dec 2014 #30

Proves my point that TeamClinton would jump in front of everyone else to get the narrative blm Dec 2014 #40

Wow, what a nasty characterization. MADem Dec 2014 #46

Not sure this is team Clinton - I suspect that he leans more to the Republican side karynnj Dec 2014 #54

John Kerry is a good man (nt) Nye Bevan Dec 2014 #17

Always a pleasure to read Kerry praising mylye2222 Dec 2014 #18

He's a great man, and he was a very fine Senator indeed and he's a superb SECSTATE. MADem Dec 2014 #32

It was a tremendous diplomatic effort. AtomicKitten Dec 2014 #20

+100000 karynnj Dec 2014 #36

Corporate media: Blame Kerry�..for anything you can. blm Dec 2014 #50

However, as long as Obama is happy with what he does, they really have far less power karynnj Dec 2014 #55

Kick Cha Dec 2014 #21

K Cha Dec 2014 #23

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Actually it did -- and in last week's meeting they discussed how the Pope karynnj Dec 2014 #37

Probably why a country like Ecuador reached out to help us with resettling former detainees. nt MADem Dec 2014 #48

It did. Vatican agreed to help us in closing it. blm Dec 2014 #42

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Why does it matter that Gross is "Jewish American"? Comrade Grumpy Dec 2014 #53

Because Jewish groups were very much pushing for his release, and there MADem Dec 2014 #56

Not to the publication. And it was one of the few reporting anything blm Dec 2014 #57

It is irrelevant - but the paper quoted is an Israeli paper (a left leaning one) nt karynnj Dec 2014 #59