CUBAN FIVE

Cuba’s Fourth Village Celebrated Foundation Anniversary (+photos)

Adriana and Rosa Aurora handed over two guayabera shirts from their husbands, both of which will be part of the collection to be exhibited, from today on, in the Casa de la Guayabera (House of the Guayabera), opened this Monday at the former Quinta Santa Elena restaurant.»

Cuban Antiterrorist Fighters Hand over Guayaberas to Sancti Spiritus Heritage

Guayaberas owned by Cuban antiterrorist fighters Gerardo Hernandez and Fernando Gonzalez are to be handed over to Sancti Spiritus cultural heritage during the solemn Municipal Assembly of the People’s Power, specially called on the occasion of the 498th anniversary, this June 4th,  of Sancti Spiritus city.»

New Publishing House in Greece to Spread Cuban Five Cause

The Athens-based publishing house Diethnes Vima will put into sale next week the book “Los cinco luchadores cubanos en las carceles de EE.UU.” (The Five Cuban Antiterrorist Fighters in U.S. Prisons), author Natasha Terlexi told Prensa Latina on Wednesday.   The complete and updated volume pretends to reach an extensive Greek sector of readers and give them all the facts »

Greater Support for Cuban Five in U.S.A.

Academics from several countries joined today US colleagues to demand the release of the Five Cuban anti-terrorists jailed in their country and the end of the blockade on Cuba at the 30th Congress of the Association of Latin American Studies (LASA).   Gloria La Riva, president of the Free the Cuban Five National Committee, convened this solidarity meeting with the »

Cubans, Russians Struggle for Release of Cuban Five

Cuban residents in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus exchanged experiences in this capital on Sunday to intensify and support the international campaign for the return of the five anti-terrorist Cuban fighters unfairly held in US prisons to their homeland. Coordinator for the Russian Free the Five Committee, Lena Loshkina, said that Russian activists will soon have two hot-air balloons that will »

Mirta Rodriguez: I don’t Like to Say that my Son is in Jail

Antonio has always tried to keep his mother informed on the projects he’s involved in. First he did it from the Florence federal prison in Colorado, and since January 2012, from the Marianna prison in Florida, where he serves a 21 years and 10 months sentence. So she knows about his Math lessons -he’s paid $6,52/month for them-, and his »

Uruguay President States Solidarity with Cuban Five in Meeting with Rene Gonzalez’s Wife

The President of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, expressed his solidarity with the five Cubans imprisoned by the United States government on alleged espionage charges, after meeting on Tuesday in Montevideo with Olga Salanueva, wife of René González, one of the Cuban patriots. During the 40-minute meeting, Salanueva explained to the Latin American leader the current situation of the five Cuban prisoners »

Movement of Solidarity with the Cuban Five Increases

The movement of solidarity with the five Cuban antiterrorists condemned in the United States grows in the world every year, asserted on Monday in Ciego de Avila Kenia Serrano, president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP). During a meeting in that city in favor of Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino, Rene Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez, »

The Washington Post Demands Freedom for the Cuban Five

A full-page ad published today in The Washington Post demands the immediate release of five antiterrorists Cubans unjustly sentenced in the U.S. since 1998.   The advertisement, placed in the US capital daily by the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, appeard thanks to the efforts of more than 325 organizations that contributed with revenues.   The page of »