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Odds and ends
- The Alan Gross case
has provoked a lot of discussion for nearly five years, but until this new
star of the Cuban opposition
movement came along, it didn’t occur to anyone that Mr. Gross’ precarious
health is apt for ridicule. Yesterday, “Let Alan rot!” And later, a joke on Twitter: “Alan Gross will be taken soon from Cuba to
Africa to fight Ebola: if he survives, he'll be free. If he dies, USAID will
take him to U.S.” If you set out to discredit the opposition movement from
within, could you do any better?
- VOA:
Cuban doctors practicing in U.S.-built hospitals in Liberia. Wait ‘til the
Helms-Burton purists get on this one…
- Speaking of
Helms-Burton, the President of Bacardi (!) talks about investing and doing business in Cuba when
the embargo is lifted, without mentioning the law’s myriad conditions.
- El Nuevo Herald: In Miami, dissident Guillermo Farinas talks
about the state of the opposition movement, the parts he views as legitimate
and not, and he tells of his fear for his life. He also says, without naming
names, that someone in Miami tried to buy him off and did the same with Oswaldo
Paya years ago. Paya’s widow says
it isn’t true. Farinas came to Miami to attend a workshop on human rights and
nonviolent action.
- A top USAID official
slams
the Times for failing to note Cuba’s responsibility for jailing Alan Gross. Don’t
hold your breath waiting for USAID to admit responsibility for sending him into
a predictable disaster.
- Aron Modig, the Swede who was in the car in
which Oswaldo Paya was killed, slept through the whole thing, and remembers
nothing, is now a member of Parliament. The Herald recently asked the driver,
Angel Carromero, about Modig; Carromero said:
“There were times when he was asleep but he was the copilot. If he chose to
remain quiet and turn the page, well I don’t share in that sentiment. I respect
it but I’ve chosen a more complicated road and one with worse consequences for
me but I couldn’t stay silent.”
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