Where Is the Prisoner From Cuba?
If not for a few minor complications, we’re sure Barack Obama’s deal to normalize relations with Cuba, including a prisoner exchange, would be going swimmingly. Unfortunately, the complications are rather significant. Breitbart News reports, “Rolando Sarraff Trujillo, a United States spy sentenced to 25 years in prison in Cuba for espionage, would call his parents every day from deep within the Cuban penal system. Then, one day in mid-December, the calls stopped, and President Barack Obama announced that Sarraff was safely on American soil. Since his alleged release, however, his family and friends have not heard from him and are demanding to know whether he is, indeed, free.” As part of the deal, Cuba was also to have released 53 political prisoners from its gulag, but no such liberation seems to have been forthcoming. The deal may have been close but no Cuban cigar. More…
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