Cuban Five: 14 Years of Injustice
For a Miami jury, the fact that Cuban agents were in Miami was sufficient for them to hand down a guilty verdict.
For a Miami jury, the fact that Cuban agents were in Miami was sufficient for them to hand down a guilty verdict.
We visited Gerardo Hernandez at a maximum-security prison in Victorville, CA – as new court filings show the U.S. government paid Miami-based journalists to file negative stories about the Cuban Five.
Back in DC by popular demand, see the film by IPS Fellow Saul Landau, that vividly documents the history of U.S. – Cuba relations, including the fact that the United States sponsors terrorism.
Journalist, filmmaker, author, professor, and IPSer Saul Landau joined Democracy Now to discuss his new film “Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up,” about U.S. support for violent anti-Castro militants.
We visited Gerardo Hernandez for the fifth time and, as usual, his spirits seemed higher than ours despite the fact that he resides in a maximum-security federal prison.
Only the U.S. and Canada continue supporting the policy that keeps Cuba out of the Organization of American States summits. At the last meeting, Latin American leaders agreed: they do not need Washington to hold a meeting.
Attend an exciting evening with actor, director and activist Danny Glover, United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, an art exhibit, poerty music and more, all in support of freeing the Cuban 5 and normalizing U.S.-Cuba relations.
Presidential hopefuls are dusting off tired arguments about Cuba as a national security threat.
In the first entry on a two-part series, we look at how Cuban leaders could forge a new environmental mission in 2012.
Join participate in a dialogue with Saul Landau, an internationally known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker on foreign and domestic policy issues. Landau is also an expert on Cuba issues and has traveled to the Island on countless occasions. He will discuss the cases of the Cuban 5, Alan Gross, and how each case as implicationts for teh other.
After ten years in prison, Rene Gonzalez is about to be free. But a stubborn judge wants him to remain in Miami with no protection from the Cuban exile terrorist groups there.
These days, you need not brave the sharks that populate the Straits of Florida to visit Cuba.
This new documentary weighs the convictions of the Cuban 5 against the crimes of anti-Castro Cubans, and examines the historical context that motivated all parties.
A chronicle of a visit to the Cuban Five agent in a California prison shows tight security and endless longing for justice.
Cuba opens its doors to religion freedom, while the U.S. ignores all progress in Cuba and Americans continue to live vicarious lives through their TVs.