For me, this has fixed it:
chmod 777 /Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/gradle/gradle-2.2.1/bin/gradle
It's a permission issue, just execute:
chmod 777 "/media/glenatron/localdisk/Projects/Cordova/MyProject/platforms/android/cordova/build"
That should fix the problem.
Using verbose like Solidak suggested works.
cordova build --release --verbose android
The last command was to access /platforms/android/gradlew so i chmod +x that file and it worked.
/platforms/android/gradlew
chmod +x