Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Havana, Cuba (CNN) Na he aha te mea i mahia e te kaituku mahi a te Tari Kawanatanga o Amerika a Alan Gross mai i tana tukunga mai i te whare herehere o Cuba i te toru marama kua hipa? He nui ake i te nuinga o tātau. Kua tīmata a Gross, 65, ki te whakatikatika i ngā tau e rima i noho ai ia ki te whare herehere i Cuba mā te haere ki tāwāhi, te haere ki te State of the Union address hei manuhiri o te Obamas me te hui i te wiki kua hipa ki a Pope Francis i te Vatican ki te whakawhetai atu ki a ia mō tana tūranga i te āwhina ki te wikitōria i te herekore o Gross. I muri i te rima tau o te wehenga atu i te ao o waho, kei te tuhi pinepine a Gross i runga i te pāpāho pāpori, e tuhi ana i nga huihuinga o te whanau, e kai ana i nga kai i hiahia ia ki te whare herehere me nga whakamaharatanga e wheako ana ia mo tana wa i Cuba. "E kore e taea e ahau te mawhiti i Cuba", i tuhia e Gross i muri i tana rongonga i tetahi waiata Cuban i te taunga rererangi i tana haerenga. I a ia e toro ana ki Iharaira, i whakairihia e ia he whakaahua o nga hikareti Cohiba i panuihia mo te hoko i roto i te toa tupeka o Tel Aviv. I te tau 2009, i mauheretia a Gross e nga kaihoko haumaru a te kawanatanga o Cuba, a, i te mutunga, i whiua ia ki te 15 tau ki te whare herehere mo te kawemai i nga taputapu whakawhitiwhiti korero ki te motu. I kii a Gross kei te awhina noa ia i te hapori Hurai iti o te moutere ki te ipurangi, engari i whakapaehia e nga rangatira o Cuba ko ia tetahi waahanga o te kaupapa a te kawanatanga o Amerika ki te whakakorikori i te kawanatanga o te motu kotahi-parti Communist. He tino rāhuitia te uru atu o Cuba ki te Ipurangi, ā, kāore te nuinga o te iwi e āhei ki te uru atu ki te Ipurangi i roto i ō rātou kāinga, i ō rātou waea rānei. I te Tihema 17, 2014, i tukuna a Gross, me nga kaihoko matauranga Cuban e toru me tetahi tangata Cuban i whakawakia mo te tutei mo te United States. He wāhanga tēnei o tētahi kirimana i waenganui i ngā kāwanatanga o Cuba me te U.S. ki te whakapūmau anō i ngā hononga ā-iwi i muri i ngā tau e rima tekau o te whawhai Cold War. I rere a Gross, tana wahine, a Judy, tana roia me nga mema U.S. e toru mai i Havana ki tona whenua o Maryland i runga i te rererangi rererangi a te ope taua o U.S., tetahi o nga waahanga iti o Air Force One i whakamahia hei kawe i te Perehitini Barack Obama. Ko te whakaahua o Gross e whakanui ana i tana herekore i runga i te rererangi ki te kāinga me CNN e pūrongo ana i te...
Ka noho a Alan Gross hei "kaiwhakatere" mō te wāhanga hou o ngā hononga U.S.-Cuba. He manuhiri a Gross ki te whare o Obama, i tutaki ki a Pope Francis mai i tana tukunga mai i Cuba. I haere hoki ia ki te tākuta niho, i mātakitaki i te hukarere o D.C. me te kai i te kai pai.