Miami — The Cuban government is concerned about the hunger strike declared by Alan Gross, a U.S. government subcontractor jailed in Havana for four years, and is willing to swap him for three Cuban spies in U.S. prisons, a senior official said Wednesday.
Josefina Vidal, the Cuban foreign ministry official in charge of relations with the United States, said in a statement that her government was “concerned” with the announcement Tuesday that Gross had stopped eating.
Vidal also reiterated Havana’s willingness to “resolve” the Gross case if Washington meets Cuba’s “humanitarian concerns” for the three spies held in U.S. prisons since 1998.
