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From our mailbag
BY MARELYS VALENCIA
—Special for Granma International—
LETTER FROM ONE OF THE FIVE
GERARDO Hernández Nordelo, one of the five Cubans
imprisoned in U.S. jails for defending Cuba against
terrorism, has written a letter to our photographer
Ahmed Velázquez in which he shares his feelings on
seeing one of his photos in the September 7 edition
of Granma International.
“It’s an excellent image, one that truly recalls the
saying “a thousand words”. The eyes of that child
express what millions of hungry people around the
world without a voice want to say, and with your
photo you have made a truly valiant contribution on
behalf of those people.”
He
also thanks Granma International’s English
department for the message of solidarity the
translators there sent him some months ago and sends
his best wishes to workers at the paper on behalf of
the Five.
Thank you Gerardo, for your sensitivity and
following our publication closely. Hopefully, a path
will soon be opened towards justice – a remote
virtue in the world today – and the voices of
millions of people who are demanding the release of
the Five will be heard.
SOLIDARITY FROM ITALY
From
Italy, Ines Venturi, a journalist at La Comune,
tells us that in front of the U.S. embassy in that
city they have placed a huge banner in front of the
U.S. embassy in that city which reads: “We defend
Cuba with Fidel.”
RECEIVED WITH THANKS
Juan
Manuel Tirado, a Peruvian businessman based in
London says that he continues to show “solidarity
with the daily struggles of the beloved Cuban
people.” He asks where he can find CDs containing
Fidel’s speeches. I recommend the website
www.prensa-latina.cu
Viviana Borrajo from Calpe in Alicante, Spain asks
us if we can print a request for solidarity
cooperation with the community radio project in
Ecuador. “Radio Chaguaruco has been on air for eight
years in the province of Cuenca, Ecuador and
fulfills its basic communicative function for the
region’s 60,000 inhabitants. Through health and
education programs it also aims to educate the
population. But the professionals who work at the
station are virtually working without pay due to a
lack of funds or absence of experience in
journalism, radio programming, announcements, etc.”
Anyone who is interested in cooperating can contact
José Miguel Uzhca, a local priest who works at the
station, by
E-mail at:
puracaser@yahoo.com
William from the United States suggests creating a
website where all the citizens of the world can call
for the lifting of the blockade on Cuba, and their
messages could then be sent to the U.S. government
on a daily basis.
Lázaro Delgado, from next January Cubans resident
abroad who possess a valid passport will no longer
need a visa to travel to the island.
From
Spain, Juan Antonio Aguilera informs us of the
cultural aggression to be wreaked on Salvador Dali’s
El Dolmen monumental complex in Madrid, on account
of a renovation project involving the destruction of
the site. Aguilara asks us to publish this
information given that “news has been released in
the local supplements of the newspapers, but has not
reached – as it needs to -- the pages reserved for
cultural news at an international level.”
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