Alan Gross says Bernie Sanders praised Cuba during a prison visit “I don’t know what’s so wrong with this country,” Sanders is said to have told a Jewish-American prisoner in Castro’s Cuba.
Alan Gross, after spending 5 years in a Cuban prison, is starting over in Israel Now 68, the former prisoner is starting a new life in Tel Aviv, near his granddaughter and a beloved cigar shop.
Alan Gross on Fidel Castro: ‘History will never absolve him’ Gross, who was imprisoned in Cuba for five years on espionage charges while trying to help its Jewish community, has called for improved ties between the United States and the island nation.