On December 31, 2011, the Editorial Board of the Washington Post published an editorial entitled "Cuba should finally release Alan Gross." The editorial of the Post is an insult to anybody's intelligence and is full of unsubstantiated lies. 

The Post laments the universal support that the cause for the freedom of the Cuban 5 enjoys, and what they do not say is that this support, sustained for more than a decade, grows everyday in direct relationship to the amount of injustice that the US is committing against the Five Cuban antiterrorists. The Post's end of the year editorial openly exposes its right wing and ultra conservative view. 

The glaring omission in the editorial is that it never mentions that the reason the Cuban 5 came to the United States in the first place was to monitor anti-Cuba terrorists groups based in Miami. The only thing the Post did not do in this editorial was to turn admitted anti-Cuba terrorist Posada Carriles and his partners into victims. With their silence they have remained consistent in their sheltering of these violent groups and individuals. The Post has had no problem repeating over and over again what journalists paid by the US government have said to demonize the Five to sway public opinion. In addition it also lies about the reasons why Alan Gross was arrested and convicted.

Their editorial piece dismisses the opinion of artists, intellectuals, Nobel Prize recipients and even Jimmy Carter who asked for the freedom of the Five and a solution to the case of Gross. And with absolute arrogance the article ends by advising President Barack Obama to impede the solution of both cases.

The Post, instead of informing their readers continues to perpetuate the myths against the Cuban 5 antiterrorists and calls for the punishment to continue against them and their families as it has for the past 13 years. With this deceit they also block any solution in the case of Alan Gross whom they feign concern for.