Alan Phillip Gross is a former United States government contractor employed by the United States Agency for International Development.
Alan Gross talking on the phone with President Barack Obama, 2014
Alan Gross with his wife Judy, attorney Scott Gilbert, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. watch television on board a U.S. government plane headed back to the U.S. as the news breaks of his release, Dec. 17, 2014.
Modern diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States are cold, stemming from historic conflict and divergent political ideologies. The two nations restored diplomatic relations on July 20, 2
The Embassy of Cuba in Washington, D.C. in 2023
The Embassy of the United States in Havana in 2016
John Quincy Adams, who as U.S. Secretary of State compared Cuba to an apple that, if severed from Spain, would gravitate towards the U.S.
First hoisting of the United States Flag by the U.S. Marines on Cuban soil, June 11, 1898