SOMERVILLE, Mass.—Some 80 people turned out at Arts at the Armory here March 15 for the opening day of “Humor From My Pen,” an exhibit of political cartoons by Gerardo Hernández, one of five Cuban revolutionaries framed up and jailed by the U.S. government since 1998. (See box on this page.) The exhibit is part of a New England tour of Hernández’s work that includes New London and Hartford, Conn., and Portland, Maine. In the cartoon at right, camera at left says “Foreign press,” one on the right, “National press.” Underneath the cartoon, not shown, Hernández wrote, “‘Neither very-very, nor too much ...’ [Don’t exaggerate either way.] Wishing many successes to our journalists in their 8th Congress and for the necessary efforts they will have to carry out so that Cubans can count on a press that becomes more revolutionary in the battle to perfect our socialism. With a strong embrace from the five! Victorville Prison, California. July 2008.”

—TED LEONARD

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