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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Dec 23, 2014
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  BY JACQUELINE CHARLESJCHARLES@MIAMIHERALD.COM
  12/17/2014 10:16 PM Updated 12/18/2014 12:08 AM

  Haitian President Michel Martelly departs following meetings with members of opposition parties Port-au-Prince. HECTOR RETAMAL AFP/GETTY IMAGES

  PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Haitian President Michel Martelly declined Wednesday to reveal details of his intervention with Cuban leader Raúl Castro on behalf of the United States for the release of USAID subcontractor Alan Gross.

• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti

Overview

• But he said no one knew when he left Haiti with an adviser and his oldest son, Olivier, in early 2013 what he was up to. He had been asked to intervened by Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, who thought his relationship with Cuba and the U.S. could be of use.

  On Tuesday, Cuba released Gross and the U.S. and Cuba announced sweeping efforts toward normalizing relations that have been frozen for more than a half-century.

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