Posada trial date set

The trial of Luis Posada Carriles will begin Jan. 11, 2011. Following a much-delayed scheduling hearing in El Paso, Texas, yesterday (June 2), U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone made it clear she does not want any more delays in the case. Luis Posada Carriles Although Posada is alleged to have been responsible for blowing up […]

06/03/2010
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U.S. made more than $70,000 in secret payments to journalists

Five American journalists who wrote inflammatory articles about the Cuban Five during their detention and trials received more than $70,000 in secret payments from the U.S. government between November 1999 to December 31, 2001. Details of the payments, which were uncovered as the result of a freedom of information request, were revealed during a Washington […]

06/03/2010
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Did U.S. government pay journalists to write "incendiary stories"?

Members of the "Cuban Five" The U.S. National Committee to Free The Cuban Five has called a press conference for June 2, 2010 in Washington to reveal what it says is “new evidence that the U.S. Government has covertly paid tens of thousands of dollars to Miami journalists working for major media outlets” to publish […]

05/28/2010
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Hernandez to file new motion

Gerardo Hernandez Lawyers for Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Cubans serving time in American prisons in connection with the Cuban Five affair, will return to court in June 2010—nine years after his original conviction—to present a writ of habeas corpus, asking the judge in the case to reconsider his sentence. Three other members of the […]

05/15/2010
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Revenge of the divorcée

Ana Margarita Martinez Ana Margarita Martinez, the ex-wife of Cuban double agent Juan Pablo Roque, is attempting to file a lawsuit in Florida against American companies that provide travel service between Florida and Cuba. If she’s successful in freezing funds those companies currently pay to Cuba’s Havanatur, it could make it more difficult for Cuban […]

05/10/2010
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Guerrero transferred

Antonio Guerrero "Free the Cuban Five" reports that Antonio Guerrero, who was serving a life+10-year sentence in connection with the Cuban Five spy case, has been moved from his maximum security institution in Florence, CO, to a medium security jail in the same Colorado city. In October, a court in Miami reduced his sentence to […]

05/06/2010
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Posada pre-pre-trial delayed yet again

An El Paso, Texas, judge has postponed until June 2, 2010, a scheduling conference with prosecution and defence lawyers to—finally—set a date for Luis Posada Carriles’ trial on perjury charges. The prosecution claimed a "serious scheduling conflict" with the May 20th date. But as the Miami New Times noted: "Critics say the government is only […]

05/06/2010
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CUPE appeals for release of Five

The Canadian Union of Public Employees, Canada’s largest union, has written to U.S. President Barak Obama demanding release of the Cuban Five. "We are appealing to you for the release of the men known as the ‘Cuban Five’," explained the letter, which was sent on April 12, 2010. "After so many years, it is time […]