TORONTO—Elizabeth Palmeiro, wife of Cuban Five prisoner Ramón Labañino, and Jorge Soberón, consul general from the Cuban Consulate in Toronto, spoke here September 26 at a forum during a labor solidarity conference organized by Worker to Worker and the Canada-Cuba Labour Solidarity Network.

Palmeiro said, “I have come to Canada many times and I always see new faces, which means we are winning more support.” It will be the “pressure of world public opinion” that will win the five’s eventual freedom. “We know how political solidarity works because this is how Nelson Mandela was freed from jail and this is why the Puerto Rican nationalists were also freed.”

—ROSEMARY RAY