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Alarcon: Unrelentingly demanding that President Obama free the 5 will be
our promise<br>
of the New Year<br><br>
Excerpt from a speech by the President of the National Assembly of the
Republic <br>
of Cuba, Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, on the occasion of the 50th
anniversary of <br>
Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP)<br><br>
...with the power that the imperialists have they have been able to
practice against<br>
the Cuban population the most prolonged genocide in history. In the
meantime, they<br>
provide shelter for their worst assassins such as the one who lives in
Miami and<br>
recently published an infamous book where he boasts of his
crimes. At the same<br>
time they unjustly imprison 5 Cubans who sacrificed their lives to save
their fellowmen<br>
from the evil deeds of terrorists that Washington has tacitly tolerated
and granted<br>
impunity.<br><br>
Now, the day is coming when the US has to respond to the petition of
Habeas Corpus<br>
on behalf of Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, which is his last legal recourse.
At the<br>
same time the media in Miami is miserably and cowardly slandering him and
trying<br>
to deceive and diverting attention to confuse the solidarity movement.
Other from<br>
the right of Cuba to defend its sovereignty, there was not any evidence
produced<br>
to directly link Gerardo Hernandez to the alleged crime. At this juncture
they <br>
are trying to trick us and make us forget that in May 2001, in a
dramatic and urgent<br>
demand before the Court of Appeal, the prosecutors recognized that they
were lacking<br>
proof of direct knowledge and requested to modify the original accusation
presented<br>
against our compañero. Despite that, he was sentenced to an extraordinary
amount<br>
of time for a crime that he did not commit or could have physically
carried out.<br>
It is hardly possible to find a similarly planned injustice.<br><br>
We have made a call to the solidarity movement and to all honest people
to raise<br>
their voices in defense of Gerardo. The United States government knows he
is innocent<br>
and that they never had any proof to accuse him. We have to demand that
they free<br>
him now. To free him and also Ramon, Antonio, Fernando and René, five
Heroes of <br>
the Republic of Cuba. President Obama can and should free them right now,
without<br>
conditions, immediately. All of them, and each and every one of the Five
without<br>
exception.<br><br>
Unrelentingly demanding that President Obama free them will be our
promise for the<br>
New Year. Let the whole world continue to ask President Obama to free
them. He knows<br>
that he can and that he should do it.<br>
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<a href="http://www.thecuban5.org/">www.thecuban5.org</a><br><br>
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