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Ramón Labañino
Ramón Labañino (1963– ) is one of the Cuban revolutionaries known as the Cuban Five. In early 1990s, he volunteered to live in South Florida, monitoring counterrevolutionary groups organizing attacks on Cuba. Arrested 1998; framed up and convicted 2001 of "conspiracy to commit espionage" and other charges, and sentenced to...
Ramón Labañino (1963– ) is one of the Cuban revolutionaries known as the Cuban Five. In early 1990s, he volunteered to live in South Florida, monitoring counterrevolutionary groups organizing attacks on Cuba. Arrested 1998; framed up and convicted 2001 of "conspiracy to commit espionage" and other charges, and sentenced to a life term plus 18 years. After an international defense campaign, he was released in December 2014 from prison. Currently vice president of Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba, Labañino is a contributor to:
"It's the Poor Who Face the Savagery of the US 'Justice' System": The Cuban Five Talk about Their Lives within the US Working Class (2016)
"I Will Die the Way I’ve Lived": 15 Watercolors by Antonio Guerrero for the 15th Anniversary of the Imprisonment of the Cuban Five (2014)
Voices from Prison: The Cuban Five (2014)