[Marxism] Cubans Jailed in U.S. as Spies Are Hailed at Home as Heroes

["Walter Lippmann" <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis already posted the complete text of this Washington Post
story on the Cuban Five. I'm using a dialup connection here in
Havana and so expect to be posting a good deal less frequently
in the days ahead. I just have two comments about the Post story.

It's so rare that a reasonably balanced report appears anywhere
in the U.S. media about Cuba that this one really stands out and
needs to be both read carefully and circulated widely. There is
also a gallary of photographs, narrated by the reporter, which
readers with a high-speed internet connection will be able to
enjoy. The few photos I was able to see on a dialup connection
here in Havana were lovely. If you haven't taken time to view
this gallery, I recommend that you do so. And count the luck you
have if you're using a high-speed connection. The narrative is
also quite objective, in my opinion. It's hard to know just why
the information blockade on Cuba is once in a long while broken
as it is with this story, but it is certainly one which should
be shared as widely it can be.

Alarcon's response at the end to the question of how many Cuban
intelligence operatives the island maintains in the United States
shows him to be a man with both political skill and a fine sense
of humor.


Walter Lippmann
Havana, Cuba
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Cubans Jailed in U.S. as Spies Are Hailed at Home as Heroes

By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, June 3, 2006; A01

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR200606020
1780_pf.html>

HAVANA -- European tourists here send home postcards with stamps
bearing the images of five faces, known simply as los muchachos (the
young men) or los cinco (the five). The faces, usually surrounded by
billowing Cuban flags, stare out, larger than life, from factory
walls, apartment buildings, billboards.

The five are heroes in Cuba, but villains to exiles in the United
States, where they are serving long prison terms for
espionage-related convictions in 2001.


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