• Submitted by: manso
• Politics and Government
• 12 / 29 / 2010

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The Cuban Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing an appeal from Humberto Eladio Real Suárez, an exile from Miami who was sentenced to death in 1996 for killing a Cuban guard during a raid in Villa Clara.

According to the official site Cubadebate, Real "murdered a resident of Caibarién when he illegally penetrated Cuba in October 1994, coming from the United States with six other Cubans living in that country who were members of a terrorist infiltration team of the so-called Democratic National Unity Party (PUND), based in Florida.

"When apprehended by authorities, he and his companions (all of them members of the PUND) were relieved of five AK-47 rifles, one AR-15 rifle, one M-14S rifle, four pistols and other materiel," Cubadebate said.

All lived in Miami, Cubadebate said, and were trained there by PUND so they could "destabilize the internal order" in Cuba.

Real, a native of Matanzas, was sentenced to death; the others were given 30-year prison sentences.

The Cuban government this month commuted the death sentences of two confessed saboteurs, Raúl Ernesto Cruz León and Otto René Rodríguez Llerena, and, after one-day hearings, resentenced them to 30 years' imprisonment. This could be another such instance.

Source: //miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2010/12/