Co-directed by Radio Havana Cuba journalist Bernie Dwyer and television producer Roberto Ruiz, the documentary "Mission Against Terror" is the story of five Cubans - Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, Rene Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez - who were arrested in 1998 and handed a total of four life terms plus 75 years. Their crime; infiltrating Miami-based rightwing Cuban-American groups supported by the U.S. government and involved in terrorist activities directed against the island. In other words - they tried to defend their country against CIA sponsored terror. Forty-eight minutes long, "Mission Against Terror" includes interviews with the president of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo Alarcon; former CIA agent Phillip Agee, US attorney Leonard Weinglass and relatives of the five Cuban political prisoners-as well as information on anti-Cuba terrorist activities. Also - a report back from the historic May 1st Boycott for Immigrant Rights!
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