Victims of terrorism against Cuba and the world call for justice

Froilan Parra Suárez

BOCA DE SAMA.—I couldn’t wear the new shoes that I had bought for my quince (15th birthday). The shell fired by Cuban terrorists, organized in the United States on CIA orders, destroyed my right foot and cut short my adolescent dreams. My sister also suffered that night, affirmed Nancy Pavón Pavón, victim of an attack on the little town of Boca de Samá, on October 12, 1971.

Nancy’s testimony opened the International Conference on Terrorism, which took place yesterday morning in Boca de Samá, Banes municipality, Holguín. The hundreds of people meeting there found it hard to contain the emotion that her words prompted.

The most outrageous thing is that the terrorist who killed combatants Lidio Rivaflechas Galán and Antonio Ramón Siam Porteles, and injured Carlos Esclantes, as well as their neighbors Jesús Igarza and girls Nancy and Angela are still at large.

Criminals like Santiago Alvarez Fernández Magriña, Tony Iglesias and Gustavo Villoldo (the last also took part in the assassination of Che Guevara) are living peacefully in Florida, as is Luis Posada Carriles, where they boast of their actions while the U.S. government is still holding the five Cuban anti-terrorists behind bars.

Boca de Samó is an eloquent witness of acts of terrorism against Cuba planned and executed from the United States. It is living proof of the necessary work of the Five in that country to uncover those plots hatched by the Miami mafia, affirmed the eminent jurist Rodolfo Davalos.

The clamor was unanimous: the empire must immediate release the five Cubans who are serving unjust sentences in the United States and imprison the real killers who are at large in the Miami streets.

The calm voice of Irma Sehwerert, the mother of René González Sehwerert, one of the Five, reverberated around the room. "This people will continue resisting; they can never snatch the country from us."