[NYTr] Portraits of Cuba's Heroic Women by Cuban 5 Prisoner on Display in Havana
 
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:26:36 -0600 (CST)


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Heroic Women Exhibit Opens in Havana

Havana, Jan 10 (Prensa Latina) Admiration for Cuban women patriots
prompted one of Cuba's five prisoner-heroes, incarcerated for over nine
years in the United States, to create images of these unforgettable
women, compiled by the FMC (Cuban Women's Federation) and on exhibit
since Wednesday in Havana's International Press Center, and from
Thursday at Juventud Rebelde offices.

"If our patriots have merit, our female patriots have special merit,"
declared Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada
at Wednesday's opening of the exhibit made by Antonio Guerrero, one of
the Five Cuban heroes imprisoned for fighting terrorism.

Antonio, a hero of the Republic of Cuba, drew the faces of the women
fighters from Cuban history on poster board and, in his inimitable
humility, the poet added that he would gladly redraw any image that was
not satisfactory.

This offering was made by Tony in honor of the 50th anniversary of the
triumph of the Revolution and, he wrote, to render homage to our women
in all their "beauty, abnegation, intelligence and love .", and
includes the faces of Vilma, Celia, Haydee, Melba, Leonor Perez,
Mariana Grajales, Amalia Simoni, Ana Betancourt, Lidia Doce, Clodomira
Acosta, Fe del Valle and many others.

A walk through the exhibit is enough to demonstrate how, since the
beginning, Cuban women have struggled in very difficult conditions
against the forces of colonialism and later, imperialism, confronting
discrimination and prejudice from an underdeveloped society that made
them suffer exploitation and double subordination, Alarcon said.

The also member of the Political Board noted that, although imprisoned,
Antonio and his companions Gerardo, Ramon, Fernando and Rene have been
able to prove to the world the true extent of patriotism and the values
of the people among whom they were formed.

As far as the ongoing battle to free them, Alarcon recalled that this
year in which they will complete a decade of imprisonment will be one
of great struggle to achieve justice. The battle will not be easy, he
said, but the least we can do is to give it everything we have to
achieve victory.

At this expression of honor to women who defend just causes, the
assembly president mentioned the group of US pacifists who have
announced they will go to Miami this weekend to urge the US authorities
to arrest the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

The Most Wanted campaign is promoted by CODEPINK, a feminine coalition
with more than 150,000 members headquartered in Washington and founded
in 2002 as a peace and anti-terrorist group.

The purpose of the weekend initiative is to demand that Posada be added
to the FBI's Most Wanted list of criminals and terrorists and to demand
the US government extradite him to Venezuela for his participation in
the 1976 bombing of a Cuban plane with 73 passengers aboard.

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