[NYTr] US Needs to Know about the Cuban 5: Alarcon in Ecudor
 
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:57:33 -0500 (CDT)

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US Needs to Know about the Five

Quito, Oct 26 (Prensa Latina) The US people needs to learn that five
Cubans are unfairly imprisoned in that country for fighting terrorism,
Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon stated in this capital
Friday.

"We have to break the great media blockade to publish the cruelty
committed against five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters for having fought
terrorism within United States," Alarcon told Prensa Latina.

The island"s legislator pointed out that those men were imprisoned and
condemned to harsh sentences by the White House, to protect their
terrorists working in that territory.

The parliament leader questioned the Washington attitude that has
confined Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, Rene
Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez, while send young people to kill and die
in Iraq, "on behalf of the war against terrorism." "If US people knew
that their regime maintains five people cruelly incarcerated for
fighting that scourge, punishing mothers, spouses and children of those
men prohibiting their visit, there would be an uprising,C-he said.

The ways to break the barrier of silence on the Five will be one of the
issues to analyze by over 500 participants from 30 Latin American
nations in the Fifth Continental Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba,
starting in Quito today.

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Alaracon in Ecuador for Continental Solidarity Meeting

Quito, Oct 26 (Prensa Latina) The Fifth Continental Meeting of Friendship with Cuba will start in this capital Friday, with the attendance of over 500 representatives from Latin American nations.

The aim of the gathering until Sunday is to step up the struggle
against the US-imposed blockade over 40 years ago on the island and the
situation of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in
that northern country"s jails for trying to thwart terrorist actions.

Also included are regional integration, solidarity movements, and misinformation campaigns on Cuba.

According to sources linked to the encounter, this is the first event of this kind taking place outside Havana and we choose Quito for the strength and historic ties of friendship organizations with the Cuban people.

Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon, presiding over his country"s delegation, will open this meeting, organized by the Ecuadorian Friendship Movement, and later participants will stage a demonstration to reiterate their support to Cuba.

The agenda also includes special speeches by Cuban Congress" Economic Commission president Osvaldo Martinez and Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples vice president Enrique Roman.

Parallel to this encounter are cultural activities by Ecuadorian and Cuban groups, among others.

The Fifth Meeting will wind up with the approval of the Quito Declaration.

Also attending are writers Jorge Enrique Adoum and Raul Perez Torres, Sandinista commander Tomas Borge and relatives of the Cuban Five.

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