Come and discuss the significance of the new development in U.S. policy toward Cuba, the freeing of the remaining Cuba Five political prisoners, and the next steps to fully bring an end to the criminal U.S. embargo of Cuba
Luis Matos
SEIU Local 1199 Latin America & Caribbean Democracy Committee and The World Organization for the Right of the People to Health Care
Ariel Hernandez
First Secretary, Cuban Mission to the United Nations
Bob Guild
Marazul Tours
By Marjorie Cohn
In the course of delivering his historic speech dramatically altering US Cuba policy, President Barack Obama briefly mentioned that the United States released three Cuban agents. These men are members of the “Cuban Five,” who were imprisoned for gathering information on US-based Cuban exile groups planning terrorist actions against Cuba. Without their release, Cuba would never have freed Alan Gross. And Obama could not have undertaken what ten presidents before him refused to do: normalize relations between the United States and Cuba.
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