The last soldiers of the Cold War: the story of the Cuban Five

Veteran of the Angolan War, René steals a plane in Cuba, lands in Miami and receives a hero's welcome

A MiG commander swims seven hours across the shark-infested Guantanamo Bay; Arriving at a US Naval airbase, he emerges from the sea shouting: "I'm a Cuban officer, I'm defecting!"

Overnight, 130,000 people flee Cuba for the United States and defeat Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton

The Cuban Gerardo Hernandez abandons his diplomatic career, changes identity and lands in Miami as the Puerto Rican Manuel Viramóntez

By the middle of 1995 the Wasp Network has thirteen Cuban secret agents in anti-Castroist organizations; but the FBI is already watching them

Love attacks the secret agents : Tony marries Maggie and René manages to bring Olga and his daughter to Miami

José Basulto defies the White House and the Cuban MiGs and decides to fly once more over Havana

The Cuban control tower authorizes the MiG fighters to shoot : seconds later, two Cessnas are reduced to dust over the Florida Straits

The mercenary Cruz León didn't want to kill anyone; his dream was to be just like Sylvester Stallone

For $7,500, the Salvadoran returns to Cuba to plant another five bombs in hotels and restaurants

The Cuban Intelligence Services set two traps, but fail to catch Big Paunch, the recruiter of mercenaries hired by Miami

Fidel Castro sends Bill Clinton a letter with accusations against the extreme right-wing Florida organizations; the carrier pigeon is Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez

Six FBI agents arrive secretly in Havana and return to the United States with a crate full of reports on the Florida organizations produced by order of Fidel Castro

A portrait of Cuban Miami : the militant anti-Castroist Rodolfo Frómeta, the pro-Cuban journalist Max Lesnik and the Marxist writer Norberto Fuentes

Leonard Weinglass, attorney to Jane Fonda, Angela Davis and the Black Panthers joins the defense of the Cuban Five, but for them the die had already been cast

Afterword: This story will only be finished when all five of us are free / by René Gonzalez

Epilogue

List of interviewees.