5 ex Cuban prisoners arrive in Spain (UPDATED)

UPDATED, 6:50 p.m. EDT — They have arrived. More later.

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Five more Cuban political prisoners are presently on flights to Spain, where they will take exile after more than seven years of unjust imprisonment in the Castro gulag, according to the Efe news service.

They are:

• Blas Giraldo Reyes Rodríguez
• Jorge Luis González Tanquero
• José Ubaldo Izquierdo Hernández
• Antonio Ramón Díaz Sánchez
• Jesús Mustafá Felipe

(To learn about them, click on their names on the right sidebar.)

For what this moment means to the family members of these very brave men, read this blog post, written by a nephew of Antonio Díaz.

Or you can just look into the faces of Jorge Gonzalez's wife Marlennis and daughter Melissa, whom I had the pleasure of meeting earlier this year.