In the José Martí
Anti-Imperialist Tribunal

BY REYNOLD RASSI—Granma daily staff writer—

A tribute to workers in the fishing sector began yesterday in the José Martí Anti-Imperialist Tribunal with the reading out of a list of more than a dozen fishers killed by counterrevolutionary groups financed by U.S. governments over the last 40 years.

Lissete Díaz Francis, the daughter of Artagñán Díaz Díaz, a fishing technician, recalled the 30th anniversary of the premeditated death of her father, killed in 1976 in Mexico by imperialist agents.

She condemned the fact that those who committed that crime are still walking freely through the streets of the country whose leaders are protecting and sheltering them.

Antonio Martínez Plain was another victim of pirate actions on the high sea. He recounted how he and his 11 compañeros (all of them from Caibarién) were kidnapped, and the boat on which they were working was sunk when they refused to betray their country, and they were abandoned in a cay in the Bahamas.

During the tribute, fishers in Villa Clara, Ciego de Avila and Matanzas received diplomas of recognition for their outstanding attitude in detecting and handing over marijuana consignments they found in the waters of those provinces.

Alfredo López Valdés, minister of fisheries, recalled the conditions in which those workers in the center have been killed, and charged U.S. governments with being centrally responsible for those crimes. He added that 294 fishing vessels have been attacked by mercenaries.

Far from sentencing Posada Carriles, he affirmed, the fascist government of Bush is sheltering him in that country, while maintaining the five Cuban heroes in prison for fighting against terrorism.