| | |  Americas & Beyond | August 2008 
Release of the Cuban Five Demanded in Mexico
 Cuban News Agency
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Havana, Cuba - Representatives from organizations affiliated to the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) and the Mexican Movement of Solidarity with Cuba demanded the release of the five Cuban Anti-terrorism fighters imprisoned in the United States.
During an activity in Mexico City, the coordinator of WIDF's Regional Office, Dora Carcaño, stressed that the men — Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Rene Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez — have been unjustly incarcerated since September 12, 1998, the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s website reported.
Carcaño, who is also a member of the secretariat of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) denounced the violation of international rights by US authorities, which have prevented Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva (the wives of Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez) from visiting their husbands.
This constitutes, she emphasized, a deliberate violation of human rights of people who are totally innocent, and who were condemned for risking their lives in the struggle against terrorism and in defense of their people.
Also during the meeting, Elpidia Moreno, a member of the FMC’s national leadership, called on participants to multiply their voices of solidarity in support of the Cuban Five throughout the world.
The meeting was held at the Culture House of Tamaulipas. Also addressing participants were Adriana Jimenez, representing the National Trade Union of Mexico’s Autonomous University (UNAM), and Leticia Montes, from the National Union of Mexican Women.
The event concluded with the reading of poems written by one of the Cuban Five, Antonio Guerrero, and which are included on the book Firme y Romantico (Firm and Romantic). |
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