In 2001, the United States tried the Cuban Five on the charge of spying for Cuba.

* The Cuban Five ( Hernández, Guerrero, Labañino, González, and González )

After the 2006 NBA Finals, Cuban was fined $ 250, 000 by the NBA for repeated misconduct following the Mavericks ' loss to the Miami Heat in Game Five of the 2006 NBA Finals.

As well as campaigning on issues such as the US economic blockade and the Cuban Five, and sending political solidarity brigades to Cuba, RATB raised funds to take sound systems out to Cuba.

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Sign supporting the ' Cuban Five ' in Varadero, Cuba

The Cuban Five, also known as the Miami Five ( Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, and René González ) are five Cuban intelligence officers convicted in Miami of conspiracy to commit espionage, conspiracy to commit murder, acting as an agent of a foreign government, and other illegal activities in the United States.

The Five were in the United States to observe and infiltrate the U. S. Southern Command and the Cuban-American groups Alpha 66, the F4 Commandos, the Cuban American National Foundation, and Brothers to the Rescue.

At their trial, evidence was presented that the Five infiltrated the Miami-based Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue, obtained employment at the Key West Naval Air Station in order to send the Cuban government reports about the base, and had attempted to penetrate the Miami facility of U. S. Southern Command.

One of the Five, Gerardo Hernández, was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder for supplying information to the Cuban government which according to the prosecution led to the shootdown.

Instead, they used it to uncover the spy network that included the Cuban Five.

On August 9, 2005, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta unanimously overturned the convictions and sentences of the Cuban Five and ordered a new trial outside of Miami, saying that the Cuban exile community and the trial publicity made the trial unfavorable and prejudicial to the defendants.

In June 2010 Cuban Five defense lawyer Leonard Weinglass was preparing to file a new round of appeals that would include evidence of U. S. government payments to journalists who later authored negative articles before and during the original trial of the Cuban Five.

As the press in Cuba was gradually throttled by the Castro regime, more and more Cuban publishers, editors and correspondents were forced into exile.

The broadcast said Anderson, a Seattle ex-marine and Havana businessman, and McNair, of Miami, were condemned on charges of smuggling arms to Cuban rebels.

After the Cuban War of Independence and the US occupation of Cuba, " The Original Cuba Libre " and the Daiquiri were both born with Bacardi rum.

The 1523 " Turin map " of the islands was the first to refer to them as Los Lagartos, meaning alligators or large lizards, By 1530 they were known as the Caymanes after the Carib word caimán for the marine crocodile, either the American or the Cuban crocodile, Crocodylus acutus or C. rhombifer, which also lived there.

With the Spanish New Laws of 1552 Cuban Indians were freed from encomienda, and some seven Indian towns were set up.

Agüero ( a white man ) and Sánchez ( a mulatto ) were both executed, becoming the first popular martyrs of the Cuban independence movement.

In 1963, shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1, 500 DI agents, including Che Guevara, were invited to the USSR for intensive training in intelligence operations.

Such transactions can be difficult, but in 2010, reforms approved by a Communist Party congress were expected to legalize the sale between Cuban citizens of all cars, as well as real estate.

The picture of PPS were later incorporated into the 10 Cuban convertible peso banknote.

Air Force General Curtis LeMay presented a pre-invasion bombing plan to Kennedy in September, while spy flights and minor military harassment from US forces at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base were the subject of continual Cuban diplomatic complaints to the US government.

US officials were worried that one of the Cuban or Soviet SAMs in Cuba might shoot down a CIA U-2, initiating another international incident.

Initially, the idea of having Ball and the distinctly Latino Arnaz portray a married couple encountered resistance as they were told that Desi's Cuban accent and Latin style would not be agreeable to American viewers.

Arnaz, Jr. played the drums and, supported by the SNL band, Desi sang both " Babalu " and another favorite from his dance band days, " Cuban Pete "; the arrangements were similar to the ones used on I Love Lucy.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the families of military personnel were evacuated from the base.

" Before this study, it was thought that the Cuban Ivory-billed were descended from mainland woodpeckers, either introduced to Cuba by Native Americans or accidentals that flew to the island themselves.

The Cuban Exile journalist and author John O ' Donnell-Rosales, who was born in the area of Cuba with the last confirmed sightings, reported sightings near the Alabama coastal delta in 1994, but these were never properly investigated by state wildlife officials.

Under American advice ( by American envoy John Kenneth Galbraith who made and ran American policy on the war as all other top policy makers in USA were absorbed in coincident Cuban Missile Crisis ) Nehru refrained, not according to the best choices available, from using the Indian air force to beat back the Chinese advances.

These requests were rejected by the Kennedy Administration ( which was involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis during most of the Sino-Indian War ), leading to a cool down in Indo-US relations.

The large numbers of skilled technicians among the force of Cuban soldiers sent in to support the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) government in the Angolan Civil War were able to make a valuable contribution to restoring and maintaining basic services in the city.

The air force had over 150 combat aircraft with about 7, 000 officers who were watched over by an estimated 5, 000 Cuban and Czechoslovak advisers.

Cuban dancers would describe mambo as " feeling the music " in which sound and movement were merged through the body.

Some historians contend that African slaves who worked in the Cuban sugar cane fields during the 19th century were instrumental in the cocktail's origin.

The revolutionaries opposing the Somozas were greatly strengthened by the Cuban Revolution.

The Reagan administration insisted on the " Communist threat " posed by the Sandinistas — reacting particularly to the support provided to the Sandinistas by Cuban president Fidel Castro, by the Sandinistas ' close military relations with the Soviets and Cubans, but also furthering the Reagan administration's desire to protect U. S. interests in the region, which were threatened by the policies of the Sandinista government.

Cuban intelligence followed suit.

* Ian Cortez, a Cuban intelligence agent working for the Colombian Cartel in the novel / film Clear And Present Danger

Cuban intelligence and paramilitary advisors poured into Nicaragua along with the equipment.

Latell states that the evidence indicated that the assassination operation was similar to other assassination operations Cuban intelligence had been involved in, and that Somoza was a long-time nemesis of Castro after he provided critical support to the U. S. in preparing for the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in April 1961.

Jorge Masetti, former Argentine guerrilla working with Cuban intelligence services, describes the Somoza assassination and Cuba ´ s direct role in the planning in his autobiographical book In the Pirate ´ s Den.

Following the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963, the 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Laughlin AFB, Texas, relocated to the base and assumed responsibility for all U-2 operations, emphasizing long-range strategic reconnaissance and intelligence collection.

He worked as an intelligence officer in Havana, Cuba in 1933 under Admiral Charles Freeman, following the Cuban Sergeant's Revolt.

This was the photo intelligence that started the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Cuban security apparatus knew the invasion was coming, via their secret intelligence network, as well as loose talk by members of the brigade, some of which was heard in Miami, and was repeated in US and foreign newspaper reports.

David Ormsby-Gore, British Ambassador to the US, stated that British intelligence analysis, as made available to the CIA, indicated that the Cuban people were predominantly behind Castro, and that there was no likelihood of mass defections or insurrections.

# Failure to competently collect and analyze intelligence about Cuban forces.

The continuing push against the Cuban government by internal elements of the U. S. military and intelligence communities ( the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Project, etc.

* Prompts for the retirement of former Soviet Union personnel out of Cuban military and intelligence facilities, including the military and intelligence facilities at Lourdes and Cienfuegos.

NATO's Deputy Assistant Secretary General for WMD, Guy Roberts cited the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the 1998 US attack on a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant, ( identified by US intelligence to have been a chemical weapons facility ) and the 1981 Israeli attack on Iraq ’ s nuclear facility at Osirak as examples of the counter-proliferation self-help paradigm.

In 1961, he moved his family from Puerto Rico to Cuba and was recruited into the General Intelligence Directorate, the Cuban intelligence service.

With Cuban assistance, the Grenadian revolutionaries were building an airfield which U. S. intelligence suspected would be used to supply insurgents in Central America.

CounterSpy has in turn been the subject of scrutiny by officials and intelligence agencies, who claim that the magazine's " driving force " was ex-CIA agent and alleged Cuban / KGB agent Philip Agee and accused by US President George H. W.

For their part, Cuba acknowledges that the five men were intelligence agents, but says they were spying on Miami's Cuban exile community, not the U. S. government.