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Cuban Five Warmly Welcomed in Angola

The five Cubans who were held in U.S. prisons for fighting terrorism this Monday arrived in Angola, where friendship and solidarity grew up in the long way to support their just cause. Like a masterpiece a duet, Angolans and Cubans, more »

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Cuban Five travel to Limpopo province in South Africa

HAVANA, Cuba, jun 29 (acn) After concluding their stay in Gauteng, the five Cuban antiterrorists travelled to the South African province of Limpopo, Prensa Latina news agency reported in a dispatch dated in the city of Johannesburg.   Since June more »

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Tau Thanks Cuban Five for Role in Struggle

June 26 2015 By Ilanit Chernick The Cuban Five  Antonio Guerrero, Rene Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Laba�ino and Fernando Gonzalez  with Joburg mayor Parks Tau at a breakfast in Braamfontein in their honour. Photo: Nokuthula Mbatha Johannesburg - more »

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Cuba’s revolution has been triumph of human spirit, writes Jacob Zuma

Cuba’s revolution withstood every possible onslaught over decades and has been a triumph of the human spirit, writes President Jacob Zuma “The revolution will not be televised.” An African-American poet uttered those words at the height of the struggle for more »

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Cuban Five thank SA for support in securing their release from US prison

 21 June, 2015 The “Cuban Five” (L-R) Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labanino, Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez. File photo.  Image by: CARLOS GARCIA RAWLINS / REUTERS The so-called Cuban Five have arrived in South Africa on a 13-day visit more »

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Irish journalist Bernie Dwyer, long-time friend of Cuba, remembered

March 25, 2015 A group of Bernie Dwyer’s friends and family members cast her ashes into the sea off the rocky Havana waterfront, as she had requested. The longtime journalist at Radio Habana Cuba and documentary filmmaker had worked tirelessly more »

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Fidel: Five Hours with the Five

Fidel meets the Five On February 28, the Cuban leader received the Five anti-terrorists and conversed about the many years of injustice they suffered Author: Fidel Castro Ruz | [email protected] march 2, 2015 11:03:08 I received them on Saturday, February more »

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Interview to Alejandro Castro Espin

Resumen Latinoamericano Edited by Bill Hackwell In this interview Alejandro Castro Espín, Doctor of Political Science and social researcher openly shares his thoughts regarding the reestablishment of relations between Cuba and the United States. He also explains how Cuban participatory more »

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Our Sole Achievement is Having Fulfilled our Duty

Remarks by Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, during the event commemorating the 120th anniversary of the re-initiation of Cuba’s War of Independence, and the decoration of the Cuban Five, in Havana’s Convention Center, February 24, 2015, “Year 57 of the Revolution” Author: more »

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The Five are Awarded the Honorific Titles of Heroes of the Republic of Cuba

Author: Granma | [email protected] February 25, 2015 15:02:55 The Five Cuban anti-terrorists, unjustly imprisoned in the United States were awarded the honorific title of Hero of the Republic of Cuba and the Order of Playa Girón by President Raúl Castro, more »

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