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Solidarity with the Five crosses the
border to the United States
CUIDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO.—Activists attending the 1st
Border Social Forum have brought their demand for
the liberation of the five Cubans imprisoned in the
United States for combating terrorism to the other
side of the border, PL reports.
The cry of freedom for those prisoners was heard
yesterday on the dividing line between the two
nations, on the Paso Norte international bridge,
which links Juárez with the neighboring U.S. city of
El Paso, Texas.
Hundreds of representatives of around 150
organizations from the two countries gathered at
that location at the end of a protest march against
the new wall that the U.S. government has decided to
construct along the border.
“We are also here to demand the release of the five
Cuban comrades unjustly incarcerated in the United
States,” affirmed Cipriana Jurado, an activist from
the Juárez Workers Center of Investigation and
Solidarity.
A
few hours previously the Forum was touched by the
heart-rending testimony of Mirta Rodríguez, the
elderly mother of one of those five anti-terrorist
fighters, Antonio Guerrero, sentenced to life
imprisonment.
The issue was included on one of the Forum panels
and on Saturday Rodríguez exposed in the plenary
session the cruelties committed against the Five and
the violations of the U.S. Constitution in order to
condemn them.
She also told how their families are victims of
psychological warfare and wives and children have
been refused visas to visit them under multiple
pretexts and members like her who have been granted
them, it is for only once a year and at the worst
time in terms of climate.
Both Rodríguez and Cuban Deputy Leonel González
thanked the organizing committee for having included
the theme on the forum agenda and urged everyone to
break the wall of silence imposed by Washington
around the case.
Michael Guerrero, a young member of the Grassroots
Social Justice Alliance who exposed the case of the
Five from the platform, stated that delegates would
leave the Forum with the commitment of helping them.
“Hopefully we can break this wall of silence on them
and all the others that are rising up along the
border,” he said.
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