Ex-Cuba Prisoner Gross Says No To U.S. Assistance

When Alan Gross heard the Trump administration’s renewed U.S. push to expand internet in Cuba, disbelief washed over the American who spent five years in a Cuban jail for trying to establish clandestine communication service on the Communist-run island.Gross said in a telephone interview with Reuters “ “My first response was ‘Are you kidding me?” I learned the hard way that it’s illegal to distribute anything in Cuba that’s funded in full or part by the U.S. government,.