Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association Toronto

Hilario Duran Trio

Friday Dinner Jazz Series with Hilario Duran – one of the most important contemporary Cuban pianists and arrangers today.   Juno award–winner Hilario brings his Latin Jazz trio to Lila for one night.

 

Lula Lounge   1585 Dundas St West     416.588.0307       www.lula.ca

12 Years of Injustice – Free the Cuban 5

 

11:00am    Program:  Relatives of the Cuban Five, Puerto Rican Independence Leader Rafael Cancel Mirands, Cuban Five attorney Leonard Weinglass, cultural performances by Poetic Voices/Voces Poéticas and Zuviri

 

The Cuban Five are serving outrageous sentences ranging from 15 years to double life.  They were convicted of ‘conspiracy to spy on the US Government’ though a US General testified that that was not so.  What they were doing was trying to prevent Miami-based terrorist organizations from carrying out murderous attacks on Cuba.

 

More than 3,400 Cubans have been killed by US based terrorist attacks ( including 1 Italian Canadian tourist from Montréal) against the island over the past 50 years and Cuba’s economy has been damaged to the tune of billions of dollars.  The US government, while preaching about its ‘war on terror’ continues to this day to harbour and protect right-wing Cuban terrorists (trained by the CIA) mainly based in Miami.  Their aim is to destabilize the Cuban economy and terrorize the Cuba people.

 

The Cuban 5 mission was to infiltrate the Miami terrorist groups and monitor their plots to stop further attacks. Info was sent to Cuba and to the US government. Instead of prosecuting the Miami terrorists, the FBI was ordered to arrest the Cuban 5 on 12 September, 1998 and prosecuted them in a rigged Miami show trial.

 

A lawsuit was filed on 9 Sept/09 against the Broadcasting Board of Governors because it had ‘unlawfully failed to disclose specific US government-paid contracts with journalists ‘who pumped out prejudicial, inflammatory and outlandish stories about the Cuba 5 before and during the trial.’  That is against US law.

 

Admission:  Free

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