CUBA has applied to the United States for travel visas for the
                   family members of the five Cubans detained in Miami on
                   trumped-up espionage charges. Only four of the visas have
                   been granted and two are still missing, it was announced on
                   Wednesday, December 5 in Havana.

                   During the roundtable broadcast by Cuban television and the
                   international channels of Radio Habana Cuba, it was
                   explained that the detainees are still being held in separate
                   cells on different floors of the prison, awaiting sentencing,
                   which is expected in December.

                   In relation to evidence not taken into account in the jury’s
                   deliberations, emphasis was placed on the testimony of
                   General Charles Wilge, chief of the U.S. Southern Command
                   and the person who introduced cutting-edge security
                   techniques into that military enclave to avert espionage
                   activity.

                   Wilge, as one of the panelists recalled, showed the
                   fallaciousness of the court charges by confirming that Cuba
                   does not represent any danger for the United States and that
                   it is virtually impossible for any individual to engage in
                   espionage activities there. The statement by this four-star
                   general — in no way pro-Cuba — had quite an impact on the
                   Cuban-American mafia located in Miami and was manipulated
                   by its media.

                   Furthermore, the roundtable reexamined the testimony
                   offered by Juan Francisco Fernández Cruz, agent Félix in the
                   island’s State Security, in his deposition given in Havana for
                   the trial. He offered revealing evidence on the terrorist
                   activities that the five Cubans helped to avert.

                   The Miami mafia had instructed Fernández Gómez to carry out
                   a terrorist attack on the Ernesto Che Guevara Memorial (in the
                   central city of Santa Clara) and he presented a body of solid
                   evidence related to how explosives and weapons were
                   smuggled into the island, as well as about plans to hit the
                   country’s tourism facilities.

                   His labors led to the arrest of Guatemalan Otto René
                   Rodríguez Llerena, a mercenary who smuggled 1,159 grams of
                   explosive substances into Cuba, sent by Miami terrorist
                   groups.

                   The five Cubans imprisoned in Miami were merely seeking
                   information within terrorist groups there, so as to protect
                   their country from that kind of action.