Vol. 71/No. 23      June 11, 2007

United States vs. the Cuban Five: A Judicial Cover-up ($22) tells the story of five Cuban revolutionaries living in the United States who were convicted in federal court in Miami in 2001 on trumped-up charges of “conspiracy to commit espionage” for the government of Cuba, “conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent,” and, in one case, “conspiracy to commit murder.”

Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, René González, Fernando González, and Antonio Guerrero—the Cuban Five, as they are known—were then sentenced to terms ranging from 15 years to double life plus 15 years.

“From start to finish,” says author Rodolfo Dávalos Fernández, “the proceedings were tainted, corrupt, null and void, vindictive. Every right of the accused to ‘due process of law’ was flouted.”

The real “crime” of the five, he explains, was keeping the government of Cuba informed of the activities of counterrevolutionary groups in Miami whose record of violent attacks on Cuba carried out from U.S. soil with Washington’s knowledge, and on supporters of the Cuban Revolution in the United States, began in the 1960s and continues to this day.

Operation Mongoose: Prelude of a Direct Invasion of Cuba ($18) is a concise history of a covert U.S. program to undermine the Cuban Revolution. Unleashed in April 1961 following the Bay of Pigs defeat of a CIA-organized mercenary invasion of Cuba, “Operation Mongoose” sought to prepare for a direct U.S. invasion the following year.

Attorney General Robert Kennedy called Operation Mongoose a “top priority” for Washington. U.S. agents carried out terror actions that included the murder of more than 70 farmers, teachers, and workers; 4,000 cane field fires; and the bombing of more than 30 civilian targets.

Drawing from formerly secret CIA files and documents made available in Cuba, author Jacinto Valdés-Dapena explains how a determined people with a revolutionary leadership were able to stand and prevail against the world’s most powerful military and economic force.

Cuba: The Untold History ($32) documents, with eyewitness reports and hundreds of photos, more than four decades of violent attacks against the Cuban Revolution by the U.S. government—under 10 different presidents. It, too, defends and demands the release of the Cuban Five.

All three books, published in Cuba by Editorial Capitán San Luis, can be ordered online in English and Spanish from pathfinderpress.com.  
 
 
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