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Patriotic attitude of the five Cuban heroes
highlighted
April 14, 2003
PUERTO
Rican lawyer Rafael Anglada-López has transmitted
his impression of recent meetings with the five
Cuban patriots imprisoned in the United States to
their families.
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Uruguayans for the release of the five Cuban heroes
April 4, 2003
MONTEVIDEO.— Solidarity events and cultural galas
organized by Uruguayan social and political
organizations are programmed for today in that
country to call for the release of the five Cubans
imprisoned in the United States, Prensa Latina
reports.
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Solidarity was able to get our five heroes out of
the hole
April 2, 2003
AS a
result of public exposés and numerous messages of
protest, the Washington government has decided to
end the arbitrary solitary confinement imposed on
Gerardo Hernández, René González, Ramón Labañino,
Antonio Guerrero and Fernando González and relocate
them within the general prison population.
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Calls from various countries for new trial for the
five
March 27, 2003
BUENOS
AIRES.— The Judicial Federation of Argentina today
called on the U.S. authorities to grant the five
Cubans imprisoned in that country the possibility a
new trial with procedural guarantees, informs Prensa
Latina.
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Posada and his accomplices, active collaborators of
Pinochet’s fascist police
March 27, 2003
THE
charges against a number of Chilean henchmen for the
1974 murder of General Carlos Prats, former chief of
the Armed Forces, and his wife Sofía Cuthbert in
Buenos Aires have another Cuban connection in Panama,...
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Now more than 100
Committees to Free the Five
March 25, 2003
GENEVA.—
The 103rd worldwide support committee for the
release of the five Cuban prisoners in the United
States sentenced for combating terrorism was created
tonight in Delemont, capital of the Jura canton,
Prensa Latina notes.
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Message from Leonard
Weinglass on Gerardo Hernández Nordelo’s confinement
February
29, 2003
I have
just left Gerardo and am writing from Lompoc (the
prison where this Cuban national hero is confined).
Gerardo was removed from his workplace on February
28 and placed in the Special Housing Unit (SHU),
known in prison slang as "the hole." He was never
told why.
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Solidarity groups
condemn the violation of the Five’s rights
February
27, 2003
BOGOTA
(PL).— The Caribbean Solidarity with Cuba Casa in
the Colombian city of Barranquilla, along with other
organizations, has condemned this Tuesday the
violation of the basic rights of the five Cuban
prisoners in the United States.
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Calling things by their name
February
26, 2003
THE above affirmation was part of an article titled
"Calling it by its name," written by former
Nicaraguan foreign minister, U.S.-born Miguel
D’Escoto Brockmann, currently a resident of
Nicaragua who heads up his country’s Commission of
Solidarity with the Five Cuban political prisoners
in the United States.
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Russi'¨s Lower Chamber approves resolution on the
Five
February
25, 2003
MOSCOW.— On Thursday,
the Duma (Russian Lower Chamber) approved a
resolution on the unjust sentencing of the five
Cuban patriots imprisoned in the United States after
a rigged trial in the state of Florida, reports PL.
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Violations against the
five Cubans imprisoned in the U.S.A. to be denounced
in Geneva
February
22, 2003
European-Cuba solidarity groups plan to publicly
condemn the U.S. justice system's violations against
the Five next month, in front of the headquarters of
the Human Rights Commission, Geneva, Switzerland.
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U.S. protesters demand freedom for
the Five
February
22, 2003
DEMANDS for freedom for the five Cubans imprisoned
in the United States were heard once again, at the
massive demonstrations held this current month
throughout U.S. cities against the expected war on
Iraq.
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Prison term for the Five called immoral
February
21, 2003
IN
Harare, Zimbabwe, Anglican priest Father Michael
Lapsley called the imprisonment of the five Cuban
patriots in the United States immoral and
hypocritically ironic, given that they were only
carrying out activities aimed at preventing
terrorism against their country.
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Free the Five committee in Greece
February
20, 2003
ATHENS
(PL).- A national committee for the release of the
five Cuban patriots unjustly imprisoned in the
United States has been formed in Greece with support
from an important group of political, social and
intellectual figures, ...
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Young Chileans support Cubans imprisoned in the
United States
CHILEAN
youth organizations of different political
tendencies have committed themselves to supporting
the international campaign to free the five Cubans
imprisoned in the United States for combating
terrorism.
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IN FRANCE
Solidarity through
culture
SINCE
its inception in 1996 (founded by Paris’ Syndicat du
Livre — a branch of the French General Workers Union),
the Cuba Sí France solidarity association has
promoted awareness of Cuban culture throughout
France with a series of exhibitions,...
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Violations against the
five Cubans imprisoned in the U.S. to be denounced
in Geneva
EUROPEAN-Cuba
solidarity groups plan to publicly condemn the U.S.
justice system’s violations against the Five next
month, in front of the headquarters of the Human
Rights Commission, Geneva, Switzerland.
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SAVING THE WORLD FROM TERRORISM
An exceptional reference book
MANY
years before U.S. citizen Timothy McVeigh learned
how to blow up buildings with ammonium nitrate, as
he went on to do in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995,
terrorist organizations formed by Cuban immigrants
in southern Florida used the chemical with lethal
efficiency, thanks to receiving CIA training.
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Solidarity with
Antonio Guerrero at poetry festival
January
31, 2003
PARTICIPANTS at the 8th Havana International Poetry
Festival — organized by the South Cultural Project
for the Promotion of Humanities — signed a message
of solidarity to Antonio Guerrero, prisoner of the
empire.
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U.S. embassy receives
demand for the release of the Five
January
30, 2003
LA PAZ (PL).—
Yesterday, January 30, a Bolivian group presented a
letter to the U.S. embassy here demanding the
release of the five Cuban political prisoners who
were fulfilling an anti-terrorist mission in that
country.
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The Five prevented
more than 170 acts of terrorism against Cuba
RIGHT now, the American Empire is girding its loins
for a war, based, at least in part on the alleged
'threat' posed by a Third World adversary - Iraq.
Few seriously view the Ba'ath state a threat, but
that's the rationale advanced to the American
people.
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Five send message from U.S. jails
"THE day will come
when we will be able to physically participate with
you in future world forums," ...
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Communists from 15
countries call for the liberation of the Five
January
22, 2003
BUENOS
AIRES, January 22. - Communist Party leaders from 15
different countries condemned the intensification of
the U.S. blockade against Cuba and called for the
release of the five Cuban political prisoners in the
United States.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
Tribunal in defense of the five Cuban heroes
January
20, 2003
THE sizeable Cuban
delegation participating at the 3rd World Social
Forum in Porto Alegre has very quickly entered into
the activities of an event bringing together 100,000
people in the Brazilian city.
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Is it that terrorism against Cuba isn’t terrorism?
January
18, 2003
“IT is
a great coincidence that just at the point where a
motion for a retrial for the five Cubans sentenced
in Miami has been filed, The New York Times has
decided to write on the case, after never mentioning
it in four years,” affirmed Ricardo Alarcón,
president of the National Assembly of People’s Power,
at a press conference in Havana.
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Mass protests in
United States against the war
SAN
FRANCISCO, California.- Half a million U.S. citizens
and residents filled the streets of Washington D.C.
on Saturday, January 18 — as did another 200,000 in
San Francisco — to express their opposition to the
Bush administration's designs for a war against Iraq.
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25,000 U.S. citizens say No to Bush’s war and demand
justice for the Five
LOS
ANGELES, California.— Last weekend, in a broad-based
display of opposition to the Bush administration’s
war, some 25,000 people demonstrated here against
that war and attacks by the Immigration and
Naturalization Service (INS) on Arab immigrants.
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Committee for The Five in Bolivia
January
11, 2003
The group
comprises 12 organizations, among them the Movements
for Socialism (MAS), the second strongest political
force in Bolivia; the Pachacuti Indians (MIP); and
the Committee of Health Professionals graduated in
Cuba.
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Defenders of life, according to the International
Front for Human Rights
January
8, 2003
"BY
thwarting the plans of organised criminals in Miami,
the Five have become defenders of life and as such
are not spies and should be released," stated the
International Front for Human Rights (FIDH) recently.
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The Five prevented
more than 170 acts of terrorism against Cuba
January
6, 2003
RIGHT now, the
American Empire is girding its loins for a war,
based, at least in part on the alleged 'threat'
posed by a Third World adversary - Iraq. Few
seriously view the Ba'ath state a threat, but that's
the rationale advanced to the American people.
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Workshop on the Five
at the World Social Forum
December
17, 2003
A
special workshop on the five Cuban patriots
currently imprisoned in the United States, has been
organized for the World Social Forum scheduled for
January 23-28 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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Letter to U.S.
Attorney General questions Five’s trial
December
15, 2003
A
letter has been sent to U.S. Attorney General John
Ashcroft questioning the impartiality of the trial
of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States. |
