Politico’s Ben Smith and Left Business Observer’s Doug Henwood join in smear campaign against Vicky Peláez (Cuban 5 ) http://www.tlaxcala.es/pp.asp?reference=10814&lg=en

Five years would pass before the truth behind the media’s “perfect storm” would begin to emerge, which was that the U.S. Government was paying these journalists for their performances. Some worked for the U.S. Government funded anti-Cuban Radio and TV Martí, at the same time they worked for Univision and other media outlets. Leonard Weinglass says that this “evidence of the government’s manipulations of attitudes within the community…violated Gerardo’s constitutional right to a fair trial” and is the substance of his recently filed federal habeas corpus appeal.