This source-led archive begins with the 1997 campaign of hotel bombings in Havana. It separates the criminal judgments entered against participants from allegations about organizers who were never tried for the attacks.
A case appears here only when a reliable court record establishes criminal responsibility. Partial adjudication is stated explicitly.
This section is reserved for documented Cuban cases without a reliable final adjudication.
The archive records the strongest verified procedural outcome and keeps wider allegations distinct from court findings.
The inaugural file is adjudicated as to Cruz León and other convicted participants. That does not convert every allegation about financing, direction or planning into a proven fact.
The page records Amnesty International’s contemporaneous fair-trial concerns and opposition to the death sentences, as well as their later commutation. Documenting a conviction does not require endorsing the punishment or trial system.
The artwork is symbolic and non-documentary. It does not recreate the explosion, fabricate evidence or use an invented likeness of Fabio di Celmo or any defendant.
Country coverage is expanded only when the first case can support a complete, sourced record.
The number of pages is not treated as a measure of crime in Cuba, and the selection does not imply that this case is typical of the country. It was chosen because the attack, the death of Fabio di Celmo, the Cuban proceedings, the commuted sentence and the later release can be cross-checked across contemporaneous human-rights material, international reporting and documentary archives.
Future additions must satisfy the same threshold: a distinct search intent, reliable sourcing, a defensible status and enough evidence to explain what a court established, what remains alleged and why the case belongs in a Cuban geographic archive.
Direct answers on scope, status and editorial method.
One verified Cuban case file is currently published: the 1997 Havana hotel bombings and the Cruz León conviction.
It is classified as solved or adjudicated in part because Raúl Ernesto Cruz León and other participants were convicted in Cuba. Alleged planning responsibility was not fully adjudicated.
Italian national Fabio di Celmo was killed when a bomb exploded at Havana’s Hotel Copacabana on 4 September 1997.
A Cuban court convicted him and imposed a death sentence in 1999. The sentence was commuted to 30 years in 2010, and he was released after completing it in December 2024.
No. Each page separates proven court findings, admissions reported by reliable sources, allegations and matters that remain unadjudicated.
Yes, when reliable records support a substantive page without duplicating an existing case or overstating its legal status.
