The Cuban Five Victory: Reflections Ten Years Later

Ramón, Ren, Gerardo, Antonio, Fernando and member of La Colmenita, Dec. 17, 2024.

I can remember clearly the rush of joy I felt when I heard the almost unbelievable news that the last three members of the Cuban 5, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, and Ramón Labañino, had landed in Havana on December 17th, 2014 after sixteen years of unjust incarceration in U.S. prisons. (The other two members of the Five, Fernando González, and René González, had been released previously at the end of...