"My "President" allows me to own both a gun and a SIM card. When will you backward Cubans finally catch up?" ("Vamos Bien!")

Penultimos Dias looks behind the (Havana based) AP report on Gross' crimes and shreds many of its findings. In fact, the "highly-sophisticated!" and "secret!" and "available only to the CIA!" SIM card that Gross was providing Jewish Cubans, is probably available at Best Buy. PD consulted a (genuine) expert in this technology who said:

To be able to not be detected — one would need a completely different phone and very different type of SIM CARD. Don’t see how a US AID contractor would be able to get his hands on such a unit. They likely aren’t available in the open market at all...It’s all about the phone and what network it is using. I see it far fetched for Gross to be able to get the security clearance required to get a device able to connect to the separate military/intelligence satellite network.

Entire article (mostly) in Spanish here.

Indeed, Capitol Hill Cubans maintained this from day one.

But then The Associated Press dispatches from Castro and Che's "war" during 57-58 in the Sierra (complete with rockets red glare and bombs bursting in air) were actually written from a desk in Manhattan by Julio 26 agent Mario Llerena, who snickers the admission in his book, The Unsuspected Revolution. So apparently, AP continues its fine tradition.

Unreal.