[NYTr] Cuban 5 Wife Slams US Blackmail
 
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:48:27 -0500 (CDT)

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Cuban 5 Wife Slams US Blackmail

Havana, Sep 19 (Prensa Latina) Olga Salanueva, wife of one of the five
Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the United States,
accused Washington of using her and Adriana Perez to blackmail their
spouses.

Interviewed Tuesday on national television, Salanueva said that country
had planned how to repress those men much before their detention for
informing the island of terrorist plans organized by anti-Cuban groups
in Miami.

During this period, neither she nor Perez could have seen their
husbands, Rene Gonzalez and Gerardo Hernandez, respectively, prosecuted
along with Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon LabaC1ino and Antonio Guerrero.

The US government recently denied again the two wives visas to visit
them, violating their right as prisoners.

Salanueva questioned how it could be possible to be accused by
Washington of being linked with alleged spying activities during her
stay in US territory.

Adriana, she explained, she has never lived in United States, so it is
ridiculous to have those charges against her.

Lawyer Roberto Gonzalez indicated that the heroic action of those five
Cubans is in having refused to declare themselves guilty in exchange
for reducing their sentences and involving the Cuban government in a
case of spying.

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Earlier report with new mailing address

"Cuban 5 Prisoner Transferred from Wisconsin to Indiana" 9/16/07
https://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070910/068534.html

One of Cuban Five Transferred

Washington, Sep 19 (Prensa Latina) Cuban anti-terrorist Fernando
Gonzalez was taken from Waseca Prison in Minnesota to Terre Haute,
Indiana, denounced Free the Five International Committee on Wednesday.

Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban anti-terrorists imprisoned in the
United States, was sentenced to 19 years for infiltrating Miami-based
anti-Cuba organizations to prevent violence against the Island.

Along with Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon LabaC1ino, Rene Gonzalez and Antonio
Guerrero, Fernando was arrested September 12, 1998.

They were held in a prison in Miami until January 2002 when they were
purposely split up to prisons across the US to serve from 15 years to
double life sentences.

At the time of his arrest, Fernando's mission was to watch
international terrorist Orlando Bosch, one of the brains behind the
mid-flight blast of a Cuban civilian plane in 1976 with 73 people
aboard.

At the August 20 hearing before the 11th Circuit of the Atlanta
Appellate Court, the defense presented proof of the case's political
bias and contended Cause No.3 against Hernandez, conspiracy to commit
murder.

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