This weekend -- January 7-8, 2023 -- Ana Belen Montes -- will be released from the U. S. Federal Prison in Texas where she has spent the past two decades. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University, Ana spent years as the top U. S. Cuban expert when she worked with the United States defense department. In that capacity she believed that the U. S. policies against Cuba were "extremely cruel and immoral." Thus, she used her exalted position high up in the U. S. government to spy FOR Cuba. Even when she was finally captured and sentenced, the U. S. agreed that she was not paid...and that she acted only out of conscionable concern for the Cuban people.
This was Ana Belen Montes during her 20 years in the U. S. Federal Prison system. The day she was sentenced she read a long and passionate statement to the judge to explain that she would never regret what she did on behalf of the Cuban people.
This weekend the Reuters News Agency -- as Ana Belen Montes regained her freedom at age 65 -- informed the world that "Montes argued that she had obeyed her conscience and that U. S. policy to Cuba was cruel and unfair." Her saga will forever make Ana a beloved and cherished person by Cubans in Cuba but, of course, she will forever remain a pariah of the first-order in Miami and Washington.
Ana Belen Montes
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