More than a dozen youth from Cuba and around the world addressed the gathering. The tribunal served to denounce the U.S. government for including Cuba in its list of countries sponsoring terrorism. The event was held as part of the activities for the Second International Youth Meeting in Solidarity with the Cuban Five.

Other speakers included relatives of victims of several terrorist attacks on Cuba and a Cubana airliner, a Cuban farmer, a Mapuche Indian from Chile, and international students currently enrolled at the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana. Rolando Pérez Labrada, whose father was killed attempting to prevent the hijacking of a Cuban vessel, and Jacob Perasso, representing the Young Socialists from the United States, also spoke.

—TOM BAUMANN