Detained American in Cuba on Hunger Strike

An American man who has been imprisoned in Cuba since 2009 has gone on a hunger strike to protest his continued incarceration. In a statement released Tuesday through his attorney, 64-year-old Alan Gross says he began fasting last week to object to what he says are "mistruths, deceptions, and inaction" by both governments in Havana and Washington over his "arbitrary detention." Gross was working as a subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development,...

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