[NYTr] Puerto Rican Independentista  Lauds Cuba's Social Workers
 
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:47:17 -0600 (CST)

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Boricua Nationalist Extols Cuban Social Workers

Dylcia Pagan Spent 20 Years as a US Political Prisoner

Santa Clara, Dec 14 (acn) Puerto Rican ex-political prisoner Dylcia 
Pagan, extolled the work of Cuban social workers as she visited the 
Abel Sanatmaria Medical School in the central province of Santa Clara.

Pagan, who is a fighter for the independence of her country, told this 
agency that Puerto Rico should take Cuba as an example, as doctors 
trained in the island, whom she called doctors from the soul, are 
ordinary people who are able to understand the problems of society.

She said what is most important for a health professional is to 
struggle along side individuals and suffer their problems.

Dylcia Pagan was kept in jail for 20 years in the United States for 
fighting for the freedom of Puerto Rico. She said during her days in 
prison, she occasionally served as a social worker counsellor of the 
American penitentiary system, which she described as inhumane because 
of its hard conditions and constant violations of the rights of the 
prisoners.

Pagan expressed her unconditional support of the cause of Gerardo 
Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Ramon LabaC1ino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando 
Gonzalez, known as the Cuban Five, who are serving unfair sentences in 
American jails for trying to stop terrorist actions against Cuba.

The Puerto Rican nationalist made a call to unite to fight together for 
the release of the Cuban Five and for the freedom of her country 
fellows Alberto Torres and Oscar Lopez Rivera who are also political 
prisoners and are imprisoned for claiming the independence for their 
country.

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