The United States resents the Cuban Revolution and has packaged terrorism as fighting communism. After Fidel Castro overthrew the brutal Batista regime, beneficiaries of the Batista gang left Cuba and resettled in Miami, Florida. Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban-born Venezuelan, was among them. Posada had been on CIA payroll since 1965. From then onwards, he masterminded numerous terrorist attacks against Cuba including the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner, which killed 73 passengers, the 1997 bombing of hotels in Havana, Cuba’s capital, and the failed assassination attempt against Fidel Castro in 2000. His four-decade involvement in bombings and killings put casual terrorists to shame. Posada and his cohort, Miami-based Cuban exile groups, perpetrated countless terrorist attacks which killed approximately 3,500 Cubans and disabled another 2,000 with impunity. To prevent future terrorist attacks, 5 Cubans, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González, infiltrated the FBI- and CIA-backed Cuban exile groups in the 1990s. These 5 men were arrested on 12 September 1998, kept in solitary confinement for 17 months, and then convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and/or conspiracy to commit murder in 2001. Phrased differently, they were incarcerated in the US for stopping far-right terrorism. The UN Human Rights Commission condemned the arbitrary arrest and detention of these five Cubans because they were denied a fair trial. Most importantly, the root cause of this issue was the US aiding and abetting terrorism. Nadine Gordimer, a Nobel laureate in Literature, shared this sentiment and felt “compelled by human concern and values, and by my [her] awareness of how justice was travestied in my own country, South Africa, in like ways during the apartheid era, to raise my [her] voice in protest at the persecution of these five Cuban men”.