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Sabrina Green will join us to discuss the updates concerning the case of The Cuban Five. The Cuban Five consists Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González. The men were on a mission to investigate terrorist groups among the Cubans in Florida who fled from the island following the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
Terrorist based in Florida were suspected of being behind attacks on hotels in Cuban and evidence implicated several CIA-linked anti-Castro Cuban exiles being behind the deadliest terrorist airline attack in the Western Hemisphere. All 78 people on board Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 died including children. The United States would charge members of the Cuban Five with conspiracy to commit espionage, conspiracy to commit murder, acting as an agent of a foreign government, and other illegal activities in the United States.
Recently new evidence surfaced that the US government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors was secretly paying prominent Miami journalists who were saturating the Miami media where the trail was conducted with highly inflammatory reports that were prejudicial to the Cuban Five impeding their right to a fair trial. The US State Department is refusing to release documents that prove the government conducted a propaganda war in the media against the Cuban Five.
Ralph Poynter, activist and husband of people’s lawyer Lynne Stewart will update us on the campaign to free her from a Texas prison, which has already approved her compassionate release due to the cancer that is spreading though her body. Lynn Stewart, an attorney by trade has built a legacy of representing poor and marginalized people whom other lawyers would not.
Stewart would be convicted on trumped up charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists in 2005 and was originally sentenced to 28 months in prison. The prosecutor unhappy with the sentence appealed and Stewart would get a ten-year sentence. A campaign was launched to free her but it intensified after it was discovered cancer was spreading aggressively though her body. She was granted the compassionate release but is still being held many believe because of the federal government want to make further examples of those who stand up for justice and do comply with a system of injustice.
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