remember when you're in Cuba that setting up illegal communications equipment will land your ass in jail.
*Alan Phillip Gross, a jew,* (born May 2, 1949)[5] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gross#cite_note-CongRec-5> is a United States <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States> government contractor employed by United States Agency for International Development <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development> (USAID). In December 2009 he was arrested in Cuba <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba> while working on a program funded under the 1996 Helms-Burton Act <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms-Burton_Act>.[6] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gross#cite_note-forward146401-6> He was prosecuted in 2011 after being accused of crimes against the Cuban state for bringing satellite phones <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_phone> and computer equipment (to members of Cuba’s Jewish community <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_in_Cuba>) without the permit required under Cuban law.[7] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gross#cite_note-washingtonpost2011.2F08.2F05-7> After being accused of working for American intelligence services in January 2010, he was ultimately convicted for “acts against the independence or the territorial integrity of the state" in March 2011.[8] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gross#cite_note-Sentence-8> He was released from Cuban prison on December 17, 2014.[9] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gross#cite_note-Labott-9> On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 8:48:23 AM UTC-5, Bruce Majors wrote: > > > A life long dream - the Nation takes Americans to Castro's slave camps > > > <http://link.thenation.com/click/5351306.411324/aHR0cDovL3d3dy50aGVuYXRpb24uY29t/5245d765039c1c4d168db8abB2e97f9ae> > > > Dear Bruce , > > Join us this winter as we travel to Havana, Cuba, and its surrounding > regions for a unique experience specially curated for fellow *Nation* > travelers. > <http://link.thenation.com/click/5351306.411324/aHR0cDovL3RoZW5hdGlvbi5jb20vY3ViYQ/5245d765039c1c4d168db8abBca23d730> > > Recent historic changes in US policy toward the island nation promise to > make this a particularly inspiring and extraordinary time to experience the > people, politics, culture, and history of Cuba in a way few ever have > before. > > Your journey will include an extensive and stimulating daily program and > five nights at one of Havana’s most storied four-star hotels, located just > a block from the Malecón, a broad esplanade and seawall that stretches five > miles along the Caribbean Sea in Havana. We’ll also travel to the scenic > Viñales Valley to spend two nights with a Cuban host family at their casa > particulare—their private home—which will offer an opportunity to closely > interact with residents of the community. The travel dates are January > 15–22. > <http://link.thenation.com/click/5351306.411324/aHR0cDovL3RoZW5hdGlvbi5jb20vY3ViYQ/5245d765039c1c4d168db8abCca23d730> > > After out chartered jet lands Friday afternoon at Havana’s historic José > Martí International Airport, we will spend our days meeting with prominent > Cuban professors, government officials, physicians, community activists, > farmers, urban planners, business owners, journalists, and artists. Our > evenings will be filled with exclusive concerts by renowned musicians, > private showings at artists’ studios, and performances by students of > Cuba’s internationally acclaimed dance institutes. > > We will tour museums with eminent art historians, wander through the > markets of Old Havana, experience the scenic beauty of the Pinar del Río > province, and savor traditional Cuban food and spirits at the island’s > finest restaurants and organic farms. > > While traveling under *The Nation*’s license issued by the US Office of > Foreign Assets Control to promote people-to-people contact, you will be > accompanied by Cuba expert and *Nation* contributor Sujatha Fernandes. > Dr. Fernandes is professor of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center in New > York City and author of Cuba Represent!, which examines the forms of > cultural struggle that arose in post-Soviet Cuban society. 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