CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand—Forty-five people turned out at the Room Four Art Space here Sept. 23 for the opening of “Humor from My Pen,” an exhibition of political cartoons by Gerardo Hernández, one of five Cuban revolutionaries framed up and imprisoned in the United States for more than 14 years.

Speaking at the opening, Cuban Ambassador to New Zealand María del Carmen Herrera Caseiro said “to understand the story of the Cuban Five you should look at the history of Cuba after 1959 when the revolution triumphed.” She urged everyone to help “break the wall of silence around this case.”

The exhibition will travel to the West Coast to be shown at the Blackball Museum of Working Class History as part of Labour Day celebrations Oct. 22.

—RUTH GRAY