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Alarcón
highlights importance of international solidarity
in
the case of the Five
Aida Calviac-Mora
 IF Barack Obama really wanted to try and convince
us that he is aspiring to a new start in relations
with Cuba and Latin America, nothing else occurs to
me other than to ask him to make use of his
attributes and release the Five, affirmed Ricardo
Alarcón de Quesada, president of the National
Assembly of People's Power, who was giving an update
on the case of the Cuban anti-terrorists
incarcerated in the United States to participants in
the 8th International American Studies Conference.
"It is a responsibility that he cannot evade,
because he has the legal capacity and the moral
obligation to do so, given that the remaining
judicial possibilities are closed," he stated.
Alarcón noted that Antonio Guerrero’s
resentencing hearing – those of Fernando González
and Ramón Labañino are pending – demonstrated the
importance of the international solidarity movement,
"because it was the only argument that prompted the
U.S. government to try and seek an agreement with
the defense, so as to jointly propose a less severe
sentence for the crime that Antonio is alleged to
have committed."
He also confirmed that the legal battle is to
continue, despite the restricted possibilities,
above all in the cases of Gerardo Hernández and René
González, who are not up for resentencing.
"Particularly in the case of Gerardo, which
cannot be resolved without being totally overturned,
by having recourse to the so-called habeas corpus,
for which we have until June 4, 2010. The experts
are saying there is a very remote possibility, but
we are going to explore it," Alarcón affirmed.
Translated by Granma International
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Victims of
terrorism against Cuba and the world call for
justice
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.
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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. |
