[NYTr] Cuba: Alarcon Thanks Latin Amer Farmers for Supporting Cuban 5
 
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:11:17 -0500 (CDT)

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President of Cuban Parliament Thanks Latin American Farmers 
for their Support of Cuban 5

Havana, Sept 26 (acn) The president of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo 
Alarcon, thanked on Tuesday the support given by Latin American farmers 
to the cause of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters incarcerated in 
the United States.

In his closing speech at the 2nd International Encounter of the 
Movement of Agro-Ecology and Sustainable Agriculture that concluded in 
Havana after five days of sessions, Alarcon expressed his gratitude on 
behalf of the Cuban people for their support in the struggle against 
the US's economic blockade against the island and in favor of the 
release of Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, 
Ramon LabaC1ino and Rene Gonzalez, internationally known as the Cuban 
Five, who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States nine years 
after they were detained for infiltrating terrorist anti-Cuba 
organizations based in Florida.

"These five anti-terrorist fighters are in jail because the US 
government allowed those organizations to plan and to carry out 
terrorist attacks against Cuba," said Alarcon.

"Our people will continue to resist and to face the challenges that the 
Empire (USA) imposes on us until the final victory," said the Cuban top 
legislator.

After referring to some of the measures adopted by Washington since the 
very triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 to try to overthrow the 
island's revolutionary government - including the assassination of its 
leaders -, Alarcon highlighted the irrevocable decision of the Cuban 
people to fight and to follow their leader, Commander in Chief Fidel 
Castro.

"They have not been able to defeat the Revolution but they have caused 
a lot of damage to our people and to the country's economy," stressed 
Alarcon.

In the closing ceremony of the event, attended by more than 300 
delegates from 22 countries, two resolutions were approved: one 
condemning the US blockade against Cuba and another one demanding the 
immediate release of the Cuban Five.

During the five days of the event, participants toured several farms in 
different provinces where they learned about the experiences of Cuban 
farmers in the field of sustainable agricultural development and the 
production of organic food products.

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