Jail time reduced for Cuban spy

A federal judge in Miami yesterday handed the lesser sentence of 30 years to Ramon Labanino, tossing out the life sentence as unduly harsh. (File photo)

FLORIDA, United States, December 9, 2009 – A 46-year-old Cuban spy has had his jail time in a US penitentiary reduced from life in prison.

A federal judge in Miami yesterday handed the lesser sentence of 30 years to Ramon Labanino, tossing out the life sentence as unduly harsh.

The judge also subtracted more than a year off the 19-year sentence of Fernando Gonzalez, who was convicted along with Labanino in 2001 of attempting to infiltrate military bases including Key West`s Boca Chica Naval Air Station and the Miami-based Southern Command headquarters in the 1990s.

The two men were Cuban intelligence officers and were part of the so-called ``Cuban Five``. They are seen in Cuba as heroes. (Caribworldnews)