Alan Gross interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on CNN

[jmcauliff]

10. not fearful of technology, fearful of cyberinvasion

You can get a BGANS on line for about $2000 but a direct satellite transceiver is hardly just a phone. The SIM card is not available on line.

You can't understand Cuba without recognizing that it is a society and social experiment under unremitting attack for 50 years. Our unilateral embargo is universally decried economic warfare and we spend at least $20 million a year (in public accounts) for regime change.

Look at what has happened to US values and constitutional practices following 9/11.

President Obama was completely isolated at the Summit of the Americas and has just been embarrassed again by a scurrilous attack by the US funded and controlled Radio Marti on Cardinal Ortega.

Cuba's authoritarian defensiveness will not change easily, but is least likely to do so while US policy is premised on a right to intervene.

John McAuliff
Fund for Reconciliation and Development