CIS 471: Why I have not been posting on this blog lately: too busy with events in Cuba

Cuba has been in the news since President Obama announced changes in our Cuba policy and agreed to the prisoner exchange that freed Alan Gross, who was serving a 15 year sentence for bringing tech equipment into Cuba.

I've not posted anything on this blog for several weeks because I have been busy with recent events on another blog I maintain on the Internet in Cuba. The following are my recent posts concerning Alan Gross and the future of the Internet in Cuba. They are in chronological order, beginning with a November 11 post asking whether Gross was about to be freed:

• Where there is smoke, there is fire -- will Alan Gross be released soon?
• An Alan Gross suggestion from an amateur
• Officials say Cuba is not afraid of new technology -- they just lack the funds
• Granma says IT is now a priority -- is this true change?
• The Cuban Internet in context
• Welcome home Alan Gross!
• Is the Internet a priority for Cuba? The ball is in their court.
• A joke and some cool images on US-Cuba relations
• Who owns ETECSA and who runs the show?
• Can there be a uniquely Cuban Internet?
• Interviews of ETECSA officials
• Cuban government support of the weekly "packages"

(for background on the case -- what Gross brought into Cuba, its technical and propaganda importance, his incarceration, court cases, and negotiations for his release, click here.)

Alan Gross brought three of these kits into Cuba.

Alan Gross and his wife Judy just after his release from prison