Cuban Parliament President on Alan Gross: ‘Blah, blah, blah…’

The president of the Castro regime’s parliament, Ricardo Alarcon, addressed the Alan Gross hostage situation and said: “Blah, blah, blah, blah… “:

Cuban parliament chief downplays unilateral release of American, possible swap for Cuban Five

HAVANA — The president of Cuba’s parliament said Friday no one should expect the island to unilaterally free an imprisoned American aid contractor and threw cold water on hopes he could be swapped for five Cuban agents held for more than a decade in the U.S.

Ricardo Alarcon’s comments, similar to ones he has expressed in the past, maintained Havana’s firm line in a case that has been a thorn in already prickly relations between the Cold War rivals. He spoke in response to comments by a U.S. rabbi who recently visited prisoner Alan Gross at a Cuban military hospital and said the Maryland man hoped for such an exchange.

4 thoughts on “Cuban Parliament President on Alan Gross: ‘Blah, blah, blah…’”

  1. Oh, they’d make the swap, all right, though maybe the recent swap of one Israeli soldier for a thousand Arab criminals has made them more ambitious.

  2. Actually, the hydrocephalic Mr. Alarcon is really thinking in terms of safety. Any kind of swap would involve transporting people by plane, and it’s critical to keep air traffic at a minimum to avoid collisions and traffic jams in the sky. That, of course, is why Cubans are not allowed to travel freely by Castro, Inc. (which is only trying to prevent congestion of the airways). Mr. Alarcon has already explained this previously, but some people persist in being reckless and irresponsible.

  3. “Five Cuban agents held for more than a decade in the U.S.” How disingenuous. As if the so-called five are “held” as in restrained as if captives and kept under restraint, rather than convicted with all due process under the rule of law. Isn’t it Cuba that “holds” people as if they were possessions? Isn’t Cuba the only country in the Americas that ignores the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or does not guarantee rights under Habeas Corpus or Amparo Libertad? Alan Gross is being “held.” The Cuban five are legitimate convicts by accepted western judicial standards.

  4. I say we return the 5 Cuban spys when the Castro Totalitarian Dictatorship returns the 4 “Hermanos al Rescate” men as healthy as they were on the day they left Miami to search for Balseros.

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