Real life member of the Cuban Five responds to Netflix film ‘The Wasp Network’

Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with René González, a member of the Cuban Five who spent 13 years in a US prison, and whose real life experience inspired the Netflix film “The Wasp Network”.

They discuss his reaction to the film as well as what it was like for González to work as a Cuban agent in the 1990s monitoring right-wing terrorist networks in Miami. Anya also asks González about current US-Cuba relations.

 

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