Freeing the Five
would also bring justice to the U.S. people
• Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro
demand an end to the unjust imprisonment
Pedro de la
Hoz
Freeing the Five
would also bring justice to the U.S. people
• Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro
demand an end to the unjust imprisonment
Pedro de la
Hoz
CONVINCED that the U.S. president
could make a contribution to respecting the ideals
of justice of his own compatriots if he decided, as
is in his power, to release the five Cuban anti-terrorist
fighters, the popular and award-winning actors Sean
Penn and Benicio del Toro expressed this Thursday
their support for an initiative from their U.S.
colleagues demanding an end to the unjust
imprisonment of Gerardo, Antonio, Ramón, Fernando
and René.
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Benicio del
Toro and Sean Penn |
The innocence of the Five and their
long and arbitrary incarceration in U.S. jails has
prompted the support of Penn, who has won two Oscars
for Mystic River (2003) and Milk
(2009); Puerto Rican Del Toro, likewise an Academy
Award winner in 2000 for his role in Traffic
and the Best Actor Award at the Goyas in 2009 for
his portrayal of Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara in Che, el argentino; and Mexican Demián Bichir,
who played Fidel Castro in the same film.
Others who have added their
signatures to the demand addressed to President
Barack Obama include eminent Spanish dramatist and
anti-fascist activist Alfonso Sastre; U.S.
sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein; Brazilian writer
and priest Frei Betto; Peruvian poet Hildebrando
Pérez, winner of the Casa de las Américas prize; and
Argentine filmmaker Tristán Bauer.
Recent signatories are Paraguayan
trova singer Ricardo Flecha and Colombian singer-songwriter
Juanes, who join other well-known musicians such as
folk singer Pete Seeger; multi-award winning Bonnie
Raitt, country music star; and Briton Graham Nash, a
member of the legendary band Crosby, Stills & Nash.
