This note could have been called the trial of Alan Gross, but it would have been a wrong item. Why? For Allan Gross is a hostage. The result of a kidnapping. A kidnapping that never should have been, and a kidnapping that never should have allowed.
Tell an American to be sent to Cuba as Gross is at best a blunder. Not sent to the cave of the wolf to the lion put him in the mouth.
I think the prime responsibility for the situation was the government official or officials who allowed a United States citizen travel to Cuba with equipment to facilitate Internet communication of dissent or "community judía” en La Habana.
Podían haber contratado a un español, que seguro que los había con igual capacidad que el ingeniero Gross para hacer el trabajo. Podían haber mandado a un francés o a un chino. Pero no, mandaron lo que el león quería, lo que al león le convenía.
Si hubieran mandado a un español a Cuba no estaríamos ante la inminencia de un juicio, perdón, de un espectáculo como el que está por comenzar.
Imagínense a un español detenido por un año sin juicio por el simple hecho de haber llevado un equipo a Cuba para que, quienesquiera que fueran se communicate over the Internet.
The English government would have had the opportunity to show the world why Moratinos called "constructive dialogue." Have achieved the freedom of this courageous guy. A great fanfare have declared that this was another proof that "deepening" the dialogue going direct to democracy in Cuba. But that does not work.
But Zapatero's government had not achieved freedom, the scandal would have been tremendous in Spain. It would have cost the regime in Havana a few tens of millions of dollars in tour cancellations to the island. To Meliá hotel chain would have talked with Raul Castro to free this Don Juan of Drumsticks.
But no, had to send a Americanito to have it eaten by the lion. The lion likes nothing more than the flesh of the little American.
The evil is done. Unfortunately it is paying the engineer Gross and his family. Also the Cuban democratic opposition inside and outside the island because the dictatorship has given him a victory, a "show."
But we clarified that "the price in lieu of trial" and because we run out of space and time.
is simple, for a hostage ransom is paid. The trial is nothing more than the show to cover the price required. Or maybe an agreed price, perhaps paid or committed to be paid.
I may be wrong, but after the millions of dollars paid for the Bay of Pigs prisoners one is left with doubts. After the Kennedy-Khrushchev pact is no right to suspect.
addition, as you can not redeem the engineer Gross for the five Cubans convicted of spying in the United States, I wonder: What will the price of redemption?
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