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Young people
protest against new injustice in the Five’s case
Anneris Ivette Leyva
 THE
recent refusal by the U.S. Supreme Court to review
the case of our five heroes, scorning the demand for
"Freedom!" that is latent in every part of the world,
and the adjournment of the trial of the criminal
Luis Posada Carriles, has once again demonstrated
that justice in the empire of the North is neither
blind, nor does it wear spectacles.
 In the face of this new example of injustice,
young Cubans representing political and mass
organizations and impassioned by the cause, gathered
together yesterday afternoon at the Flag Memorial to
demand the return of René, Antonio, Gerardo,
Fernando and Ramón, soldiers of peace who have been
incarcerated for more than 10 years in U.S. jails.
Speakers from various levels of education
demanded that the U.S. president respond to the
universal clamor surrounding this issue. "Our demand
is that he find out about the true history of Cuba
and the case of the Five," stated New Yorker Ian
Fabián, a student at the Latin American School of
Medicine, who also called on him to "break the
stigma of hostility" against a people who "have
given us the opportunity of studying what we wanted
to study but were unable to do in our own country."
Members of the Political Bureau Ricardo Alarcón
de Quesada, president of the National Assembly of
People’s Power, and Pedro Sáez Montejo, first
secretary of the Party in the capital, were
accompanied at the event by relatives of the five
heroes. The protest was also attended by Elba Rosa
Pérez and Jorge Martí Martínez, heads of the Central
Committee’s Science and International Relations
departments, respectively.
Also present were Julio Martínez Ramírez, first
secretary of the Union of Young Communists, and
members of the National Committee of that
organization, whose 9th Plenary Session begins today.
Translated by Granma International
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Cuban youth call
for continuing the fight to free the Five
June 10, 2009
THE youth of Cuba have called on all people of
goodwill in the world to continue the fight for
justice that the empire is stubbornly denying the
Cuban five, imprisoned in the United States for
combating terrorism since 1998.
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Prominent New
Zealanders demand release of the Five
April 7,
2009
WELLINGTON, April 6.— One hundred prominent
political, parliamentary and trade union figures in
New Zealand today called on the U.S. government to
immediately release the five Cuban anti-terrorists
who have been serving unjust sentences in that
country for more than 10 years.
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Cuban Five condemn
Israeli aggression in Gaza
January
21, 2009
Urgent
message to the Palestinian people:
IT is with profound pain and infinite indignation
that we have witnessed the criminal massacre of the
Palestinian people; there are no words to describe
this holocaust. The death of every innocent child,
woman and man and the destruction of the homeland’s
holy ground are crimes against humanity and debts
that will someday be paid for dearly by the
governments of Israel, the United States — which
supports the former — and international imperialism.
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