[NYTr] Cuban 5: Passion of Antonio Guerrero, for his Homeland and Poetry
 
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:42:39 -0500 (CDT)

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Cuban 5:

The Passion of Antonio Guerrero, for his Homeland and Poetry

By Adolfo Silva Silva
AIN Special Service

He is an airport construction engineer driven by passions for his 
homeland and poetry.

He allegedly quit Cuba one day, but in reality he left silently, in the 
necessary silence to carry out the greatest of his works as constructor 
and poet. On September 12th, 1998, he was detained in Miami for his 
love of humanity, although the FBI, experts in subterfuge, accused him 
of serious crimes. Since then, Antonio "Tony" Guerrero Rodriguez, 
alongside his four brothers in the ordeal, began to live a different 
life:  the life of a prisoner who for just and moving reasons, is 
always free despite being behind bars.

In a cruel and farcical trial, they sentenced him to life plus 10 years 
in prison.  Thus he received a share of the perversity which Judge Joan 
Lenard meted out along with Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Fernando 
Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, of four life sentences and 77 years behind 
bars. 

Born on October 16th, 1958, Antonio will celebrate his 49th birthday 
in jail.  It should be said that he still celebrates his birthdays 
because he does not believe in defeat, even serving his sentence which 
in addition to being excessively, has become absurd. In manuscripts 
penned in prison, he has also revealed in verse his testimony of 
optimism, love of life and songs of hope.  The texts ratify the 
attitude of someone who feels free inside a cell and reveal the 
profound humane and sensitive side of the author. Fresh, vital, 
passionate, unaffected, without technical complexities, charged with 
essential and intimate truths, his poetry talks about different issues 
including very personal reflections, related to his social commitment. 

On December 27th, 2001, in his submission before sentencing, he 
concluded by saying:  "At last we rest free and victorious facing into 
the sun that today is denied from us". It is a declaration of unshaken 
faith in the dearest of human virtues, of the many with which the Cuban 
Five continue their mission facing into the sun, for that which they 
have fought for.  /map
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