In Dominica a local group, Cuba Friendship Association, is calling on US President Barack Obama to pardon and release five Cuban intelligence officers popularly known as the “Cuban Five” imprisoned in the US.
It is also calling on President Obama to deal with a group known as Alpha 66, which it describes as a terrorist group operating out of Miami.
The Cuban 5, also known as The Miami 5, 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.
Cuba acknowledges that the five men were intelligence agents, but said they were spying on Miami’s Cuban exile community, not the US government.