Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Legal Commentary Blogs -> JURIST - Hotline

Legal Commentary

: JURIST - Hotline

Well-timed lifting of travel restrictions marks improvement in U.S.-Cuba relations

By Yuriy Vilner

Dr. Wayne Smith [Senior Fellow and Director of Cuba Program, Center for International Policy]: "U.S.-Cuba relations changed little during 2010, and certainly showed no signs of significant improvement. On the contrary, the two sides seemed to be in something of a stalemate, with the U.S. taking the apparent position that it could not take steps to improve relations until the matter of Alan Gross was resolved -- Mr. Gross being the USAID contractor arrested in December of 2009. The U.S. maintained that he had committed no crime. The Cubans, on the other hand, noted that Mr. Gross had entered Cuba improperly and had been distributing highly sophisticated radio equipment without

Full post as published by JURIST - Hotline on February 01, 2011 (boomark / email).