A snippet from AFP... Former US diplomat and New Mexico governor Bill Richardson said Tuesday he will leave Cuba on Wednesday, disappointed that the government would not let him visit jailed American contractor Alan Gross.

"I'm leaving tomorrow because I haven't been able to visit Gross or discuss his case with the Cuban government. I am very disappointed," he said at a news conference.

Gross, 62, was sentenced in March to 15 years in prison on charges he violated Cuba's "independence or territorial integrity" in a case that has soured US-Cuban relations.

Gross has been in jail since his arrest in 2009 for distributing cellphones and laptops to members of the island's Jewish community under a State Department contract.
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Anuone understand the reasoning for bing jailed? Is it a "spy" type thing?