++In what will be criticized, President Obama swapped 3 of the CUBA 5,three Cubans held for espionage in federal prisons, for US contractor Alan Gross.
++ABC is hyping this exchange as a major step in normalizing relations with Cuba. We'll see.
++The tragedy of Alan Gross' imprisonment is a result of a USAID program that was to encourage the democratic opposition within Cuba. He simply didn't have the experience of operating within a closed society and made elementary blunders that led to his apprehension.
++This comes only a week after the press revealed that USAID tried to infiltrate the Cuban Hip-Hop scene with a Serbian musician to stimulate an uprising of the youth. Senator Leahy had denounced this program as foolhardy.
++President Obama is to speak about this later today. It should be interesting to see whether there are more moves to normalization.
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