Cuba Five News Today

The Illegitimate Birth of the American Empire

The "Cuba Five" chose exile to the United States - so began the massive influence they were to play in Irish America. 

On this day Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, the Irish Fenian leader and member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, died in Staten Island, NY. He was the Fenian Lazarus who kicked off the Easter Rising.

Instrumental in convincing cub a. like the united states wanted the deal more than cuba did, your thoughts on that? >> i dont know. but clearly the holy father has influence and we saw this when pope jaup paul went to cub a. despite the communist regime, there are devout catholics and huge crowds that turned out for the pope. and he apparently communicated with president obama, although that was not an issue. he brought it up with the pope when he met the pope last march. but reached out to the ...

They better have strong evidence that he was under his brothers spell. and that is a tactic to avoid the death penalty and lessen the punishment. i dont think it will help him in the guilt or innocent phase. it will go in mitigation and why he participated and help them avoid a death sentence which is the goal at this point. >> well be be watching that. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> eric, while you were speaking just then, we have a fox news alert. josh earnest announcing that presi...

We would be able to get the castro brothers to love power and create more democracy and human rights. the only people we isolated are the people of cuba, not the regime. the regime has been sustained. they are in power today surviving eight u.s. presidents. and so i think the burden is on the people who oppose the new effort to say how would orth 5 or 10 years of failed policy, have a different result than the last 54 years of failed policy? it has helped to sustain the castro brothers but harm ...

That bombshell calling for reversing half a century of america foreign policy with the communist nation. president obama said it is time to look at a new plan with cuba and led to freeing allen gross and a cuban who bravely spied for us and imprisonned in cuba for 20 years. the u.s. released three intelligence officers one serving life in prison. outrage from law makers from both parties who are vowing to an. one republican calling it another concession to tyranny. james rosen is live with more....

Deal. thank you, chris. tune in this weekend with fox news sunday. he will talk to mike rogers about the latest fallout with sony and potential cyber attacks on american companies by north korea. >> allen gross may be home after serving five years behind bars in cuba. he set up internet access to the small jewish population. and the questions remain over the new policy. chris van halland was a law maker who travelled with mr. gross on the 757 that returned from sha havana yesterday. and he relea...

In light of the ongoing nuclear negotiations with iran to stop iran from building a nuclear bomb. >> we are learning more about the massacre in the military run school in pakistan. a newspaper obtaining details of phone calls taking place between the it could gunmen and handlers are believed to be hiding in afghanistan. they were told to wait for the soldiers to come after the slaughter to kill them and blow themselves up. the death toll in that attack 148. most of them were children. >> so what...

Answer is yes. you can achieve that with the routine ultra-sound. >> some people who are not licensed and doctors. >> dont go to them. >> what is the question to ask? >> if you want to get a picture of the baby, get it from the obstriitition who is doing the ultra-sound. and get an extra picture for your album. >> thank you. eric. >> it is the stock market on ste rods. the fed assured investors that interest rates will stay low for the time being. how will this and changes with cuba affect our m...