HAVANA—Pedro de la Cruz (bottom), vice president of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution in Santiago de Cuba, takes the floor during a February 20 presentation of a new Pathfinder title, The First and Second Declarations of Havana, to a meeting here of leaders of the Association from each of Cuba’s provinces. The organization is made up of Cubans who have taken part in revolutionary struggles and internationalist missions, from the 1950s to today.

The speakers at the book presentation (top, from right) included Alexis Hernández, a member of the national leadership of the Association of Combatants; Iraida Aguirrechu of the Editora Política publishing house in Cuba; and Mary-Alice Waters, editor of the book and president of Pathfinder Press.

In a lively discussion from the floor, combatants exchanged views and asked questions on subjects ranging from the campaign to free the five revolutionaries from Cuba currently held in U.S. federal prisons to how revolutionaries carry out various forms of their political work in the United States.

Hernández said the book presentation and discussion was an “expression of the mutual solidarity between American and Cuban revolutionaries, which has an incalculable value for us.”

—MARTÍN KOPPEL AND JACOB PERASSO