[NYTr] Mexicans to Sign Petition in Favor of Cuban Five
 
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:46:44 -0500 (CDT)

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Mexicans to Sign Petition in Favor of Cuban Five

Havana, Oct 24 (acn) Cuban Ambassador to Mexico Manuel Aguilera de la 
Paz called Mexican scholars, politicians and artists to support the 
petition launched in Havana on October 15 by writer Roberto Fernandez 
Retamar, president of the Casa de las Americas cultural center, 
defending the release of the Five Cubans imprisoned in the U.S.

After reading the statement during an encounter with Mexican 
intellectuals and politicians, the Cuban diplomat said "the only way to 
rectify this huge injustice is if there is great international pressure 
that opens the way to the truth."

The Cuban Five case "is not well known in the world mainly due to the 
silence in the mainstream media and especially of the United States," 
said Ambassador Aguilera de la Paz.

To date, the petition has been signed by more than 800 personalities 
from around the world including Nobel Prize Laureates for Literature 
Nadine Godimer and Wole Soyinka, and the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize 
Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel.

Other notables signing on are Noam Chomsky, Ignacio Ramonet, Danielle 
Mitterrand, Oscar Niemeyer, Eduardo Galeano, Manu Chao, Pablo Gonzalez 
Casanova, Tariq Ali, Mario Benedetti, Alicia Alonso, Frei Betto, Armand 
Mattelart, Silvio Rodriguez, Luis Eduardo Aute, Gianni Mina, Thiago de 
Mello, Marta Harnecker, Danny Glover and Zhores Alfiorov.

The statement recalls that Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon LabaC1ino, Antonio 
Guerrero, Rene Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez, known worldwide as the 
Cuban Five, are in their tenth year of harsh sentences "resulting from 
a politicized trial that took place in the city of Miami."

The Cuban Five "helped to monitor the terrorist plans organized against 
Cuba from Florida by ultra-rightwing groups." The five men have 
remained confined in five different maximum security prisons "under 
cruel conditions in violation of their human rights and US laws." Two 
of them have been denied their right to receive visits from their wives.

"They received a bogus trial without an ounce of objectivity, because 
it was held in Miami, a city where the most intransigent and intolerant 
conduct exists against everything that has to do with the Cuban 
revolution," he added.

The petition ends with a demand for "the immediate end to an enormous 
injustice; we must not cease in this effort until the truth opens the 
way and these men return to their country."

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