More than 300 delegates from 56 countries attended the Sixth International Colloquium for the Freedom of the Cuban Five in Holguín, Cuba, November 18-22. The five—Fernando González, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, and René González—have been in jail in the United States for more than 12 years, convicted on frame-up charges. The five had been monitoring the activities of right-wing Cuban exile groups in Florida that have a history of carrying out violent attacks on Cuba with the complicity of the U.S. government.

The conference called for increasing actions to get out the facts on the case to a wider audience, including international days of solidarity planned for June 8, September 12, and October 6. Conference participants joined a November 20 march of 10,000 people (above) in Holguín to demand the five be freed.

—SETH GALINSKY