MONTREAL — Some 45 people turned out at the Simon Bolivar Cultural Center here Oct. 4 for the opening of “Humor from My Pen,” an exhibit of political cartoons by Gerardo Hernández — one of five Cuban revolutionaries framed up and imprisoned in the U.S. for more than 15 years.

The exhibit was organized by the Cuban Consulate General and the Fabio DiCelmo Committee for the Cuban 5. Sean O’Donohue from the Cuban 5 Committee, Consul General Alain González, and Venezuelan First Consul Mary Flores, spoke and musicians Mirelia Martín García and Lorenzo Márquez Gringas from Cubamanos, a group based in Manzanillo, Cuba, performed.

“I came because I learned about the case of the Cuban Five a month ago at a day camp organized by the YMCA and wanted to learn more,” Linda Soares, a student at College Vieux Montréal, told the Militant.

— BEVERLY BERNARDO