With Honor, Courage and Pride: Defense Statements at the Sentencing Hearings of the Five Cuban Patriots Unjustly Condemned by a Miami Federal Court

Havana, Cuba: Cuban Council of State, 2002. Second Edition [stated]. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Rear cover has different ISBN from Verso, last two digits are 51.. 100, [4] p. From a pro-Cuban website: "In September 1998, five Cuban men were arrested in Miami by FBI agents. Gerardo Hernandez, Ramón Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero and René Gonzalez were accused of the crime of conspiracy to commit espionage. The US government never accused them of actual espionage, nor did it affirm that real acts of espionage had been carried out, as no classified document had been confiscated from the Five. Their actual mission in the United States was monitoring the activities of the groups and organizations responsible for terrorist activities against Cuba. After the triumph of the Cuban revolution in 1959, Cuba had been the victim of more terrorist attacks than any other country in the world, killing 3, 478 and injuring 2, 099. The vastly majority of those attacks originated in southern Florida, by groups tolerated and partly financed by the US government. After their arrest, the Five were immediately placed in solitary confinement, isolated from all other inmates for the entire 17 months of pretrial custody. For the first five months they were housed in separate cells isolated from each other as well as the other inmates. After those five months, a motion was filed by the defense asserting that their need to work on their defense was being compromised by the isolation. Four were then moved into the same single cell, with one kept housed alone, but they remained in the Special Housing Unit in isolation cells for all 17 months before their case was first brought before a court. In spite of the vigorous objections raised by the Five s defense, the case was tried in Miami, Florida, a community with a long history of hostility toward the Cuban government, which prevented them from receiving a fair trial. "