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Miami caravan demands freedom for
Cuban anti-terrorists
Cuban émigré community organizations in Miami are
planning a caravan across the city for September 6,
to demand the release of three Cuban anti-terrorists
imprisoned in the United States.
 The
initiative led by the Alianza Martiana, will demand
that the government of Barack Obama free Gerardo
Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero, who
as of September 12, will have completed 16 years in
prison.
“It
is our duty to remain determined in this just
demand,” reads the communiqué released by the group
calling for a definitive solution to the case.
The
caravan will travel along the city’s principal
streets and avenues to additionally demand “the
arrest, and prosecution of Cuban-American right wing
terrorists, who are guilty of hateful crimes yet
live openly in Miami, with the complicity and
protection of the U.S. government,” the press note
indicated.
In
the dawn hours of September 12, 1998, the FBI
detained Hernández, Labañino and Guerrero, as well
as Fernando González and René González, known
internationally as the Cuban Five.
The
Five were in South Florida to monitor violent
organizations there, in an effort to prevent
terrorist attacks on the Cuban people, which have
caused more than 5,000 deaths and injuries over the
last 50 years.
During the 16 years since their arrest, Nobel Prize
winners, distinguished figures from all walks of
life, legislators and people of good will around the
world have demanded freedom for the Cuban Five.
Fernando and René González completed their sentences
in full, returned to their families in Cuba, and
continue the struggle to win the release of their
brothers Gerardo Hernández, Ramon Labañino and Tony
Guerrero.
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