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Andrés Gómez, a leader of the Antonio Maceo Brigade, a Miami group that opposes the U.S. economic war against Cuba, speaks September 18 at a Miami meeting in solidarity with five Cuban revolutionaries jailed in the United States on frame-up charges of conspiring to commit espionage for the Cuban government. On October 31, a federal appeals court threw out an earlier ruling by its three-judge panel that had overturned the 2001 convictions of the five—Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, René González, Antonio Guerrero, and Fernando González—and ordered a new trial. This setback means the Cuban Five will remain in prison. The full court will reconsider their appeal.
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