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By: Daniel Nardini
As long as Gross is in a Cuban prison, the U.S. government cannot move to improve relations with Cuba. There are some Democrats who argue that we should go on with improving relations with Cuba and also invest in Cuba regardless of the fact that Gross is in jail. In my view, this would be sending the Cuban government the wrong message. It would be saying that yes it is O.K. to keep Gross in prison and reward Havana for bad behavior. The U.S. government is not going to reward North Korea for bad behavior, so why should it reward Cuba? Some Cuba watchers say that the U.S. embargo and the U.S. government holding the five Cuban spies is why Havana is holding Alan Gross. These Cuba watchers say that we should first get rid of the embargo and then give back to Havana the spies.
But in my view this is again awarding bad behavior. The five Cuban spies were convicted of espionage for trying to infiltrate Cuban-American groups and also U.S. military installations. While I also believe that the U.S. economic embargo should be scrapped, doing it under the dictation of Havana is totally unacceptable. They are using Alan Gross as a hostage to gain concessions they are not entitled to. The U.S. government should not negotiate under any such threat even if the U.S. government may not be correct about the embargo. In my view, the U.S. government should scrap the embargo against Cuba, should allow any and all Americans to be able to go to and from Cuba without restrictions, and that all diplomatic relations should be established with Cuba just as the U.S. government has full diplomatic relations with China, Vietnam and Laos. But none of this should happen until Alan Gross is unconditionally released. In my view, the Cuban government has shot itself in the foot, and that nothing should move forward until Havana lets Alan Gross go home.