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García Márquez calls for the release
of the Cuban Five
 THE Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, winner
of the 1982 Nobel Literature Prize, has added his
voice to calls for the immediate release of the five
Cuban anti-terrorists fighters imprisoned in the
United States for more than nine years.
Along with García Márquez and José Manuel Ramos
Horta, Nobel Peace Prize winner and president of
East Timor, who recently joined the group, six
distinguished figures have signed the call launched
October 12 by the Network of Networks in Defense of
Humanity, reported Prensa Latina.
The document calls for the liberation of Gerardo
Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero,
Fernando González and René González, sentenced to
long and unjust sentences by a rigged trial in the
city of Miami.
In addition to the Colombian writer and Ramos Horta,
other Nobel Prize winners who signed the document
include Nadine Gordimer and Wole Soyinka
(Literature), Zhores Alfiorov (Physics) and Adolfo
Pérez Esquivel (Peace).
Since its initiation, the call – now signed by some
3,300 international figures, organizations and
institutions – has generated, without pause, a wave
of adherents.
Among the countries most represented are the United
States, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, France and other
Latin American nations.
Translated by Granma International |
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Time for the Cuban Five to be free
October 15. 2007
JUST hours after the latest international call for
the release of the five Cubans imprisoned in the
United States for their anti-terrorist activities
began to circulate, Spanish intellectuals Alfonso
Sastre and Juan Madrid added their voices to the
cause.
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Nobel Prize
winners and world intellectuals sign new call for
the release of the Five
October 15. 2007
The Cuban chapter of the Defense of Humanity
Network announced in Havana a new call for the
release of the five anti-terrorist Cubans
incarcerated for nine years with heavy sentences
hanging over them.
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