[NYTr] Spaniards, Mexicans Go to Bat for Cuban 5
 
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:19:07 -0500 (CDT)


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Mexicans Struggle to Free The Five

Havana, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) Groups of solidarity with Cuba in Mexico
will continue their struggle for the release of the five anti-terrorist
Cuban fighters held in US prisons, said Maria Lopez, a member of the
14th Latin American, Caribbean Voluntary Work Brigade.

Internationally known as The Five, Cubans Rene Gonzalez, Antonio
Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon LabaCB$ino and Fernando Gonzalez have
been in US prisons since September 1998.

Their only "crime" was to inform about plans of violent actions against
Cuba by Florida-based terrorist groups.

Lopez revealed that groups of solidarity in her country will be closely
watching what happens in the August 20 hearing of the 11th Circuit
Atlanta Appellate Court, when the defense presents its arguments on
irregularities committed by the prosecution in this case.

We have staged demonstrations outside the US Embassy in the Federal
District and outside the US Consulate in Guadalajara, demanding the
release of The Five, the cessation of the US blockade and punishment
for international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, the mastermind who
had a Cuban airliner blown up off Barbados in 1976, killing all 73
people on board.

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PCPE Asks Spanish Gov't to Intercede for Cuban 5

Madrid, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of the Peoples of
Spain (PCPE) requested Tuesday to get the government to intercede for
the fate of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in
United States.

The request is included in a PCPE declaration due to the hearing slated
for August 20 at the US Court of Appeals 11th Circuit in Atlanta in the
case of Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, Rene
Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez.

Universally known as the Cuban Five, these men will present once more
fallacies of accusations on alleged spying that could not have been
proved, and argue the political nature of the process and injustices
committed against them.

The call states that the Cuban Five were detained in September 1998 and
condemned to long sentences, included life imprisonment, for defending
their country from violent actions by anti-Cuban terrorist groups
settled in that northern nation. 

The note recalls that in May 2005, the Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention declared the process illegal, which contravene the
International Convention on Political and Civil Rights and urged
Washington to remedy the situation.

The PCPE reiterates its commitment for the release of the Five, and
call for the Spanish solidarity movement to start all kind of actions
in favor of the Cuban anti-terrorists.

It also requests the Spanish government to interest in the group's
situation and demands United States the end of collaboration with
anti-Cuban terrorists settled in Miami, as well as tries and extradites
confessed criminals like Luis Posada Carriles to countries that demand
them

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