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Victims of
terrorism against Cuba and the world
call for
justice
Froilán 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."
Translated by Granma International
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Gerardo grateful
for solidarity
GERARDO
Hernández Nordelo, unjustly given a double life
sentence plus 15 years in prison, sent a message of
thanks from him and his family to the Cuban people
and friends around the world for "all the
expressions of support that he has received in such
difficult moments."
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Carmen Nordelo Tejera dies
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Declaration of the U.S.
Movement in Solidarity with the Cuban Five to the
rest of the International Movement for the Freedom
of the Cuban Five
THE following organizations have issued this
declaration: The National Committee to Free the
Cuban Five; the International Committee for the
Freedom of the Cuban Five; and the organizations of
the Cuban Immigration in Miami that together
comprise the Alianza Martiana (Marti Alliance): the
Antonio Maceo Brigade, the Alianza Martiana as an
individual organization, the Alliance of Workers of
the Cuban Community (ATC), the José Martí
Association, and political parties of the United
States who are part of the Cuban Five solidarity
movement.
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Vigil for the
Five at the Flag Memorial
A patriotic and revolutionary vigil is taking
place tonight on the eve of September 12, the date
when the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters complete
their eleventh year of incarceration in the United
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