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  ipedia.com: List of Cubans Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Fernando González, one of the Five Cuban Heroes
René González, one of the Five Cuban Heroes
Antonio Guerrero, one of the Five Cuban Heroes
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 Free the Cuban Five
Five young professionals who decided to devote their lives, away from their homeland, to fighting against terrorism in the city of Miami, the hub of most aggressions against Cuba.
The five Cuban men had the exclusive mission of getting information about the plans of terrorist groups based in South Florida that, beyond the folly of the judicial process itself, are not part of the U.S. government.
Under no circumstance whatsoever, the five Cubans were after any kind of information that could pose a threat to the national security of the United States, a truth that was proved by the defense attorneys and upheld by many a witness during the trial.
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 Five Cuban Heroes.... Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Alonso, who also hosts a TV show about Cuban society's interesting top themes explained the circumstances in which the five Cubans were arrested in September 1998 and denounced that the "political and manipulated" trial was actually against the Cuban revolution.
Alonso also said that the five Cubans arrested in Miami, three of which were given life sentences, did gathered information on terrorism towards their country, but never attempted against the US national security because, besides, they did not have access to classified information.
The five young Cubans sentenced in Miami were first moved, under strong watch, to prisons in Atlanta and Oklahoma and from there taken to their final prisons in different and far apart states.
www.rguama.cubasi.cu /sitios/patriotas/eng/biografias/biografia5.htm   (1644 words)

  
 [WW] Cuba's socialist revolution in perspective
Cuban scientists just announced the development of a synthetically produced vaccine for prevention of bacterial meningitis--a disease that kills 400,000 to 600,000 people in the world every year, mostly children.
They are five Cuban revolutionaries who were working in the early 1990s in Miami to defend their country from anti-Cuba right-wing terrorists, terrorists funded and backed by the CIA against Cuba.
The five heroes are in separate U.S. prisons, and at a critical stage.
www.mail-archive.com /wwnews@wwpublish.com/msg03020.html   (1206 words)

  
 ANC Today Special Supplement
The Cuban people remained steadfast in their struggle to defend the gains of their revolution in the face of a vicious US economic blockade.
Recently, Five Cuban nationals were arrested by American forces, an act which demonstrated the vindictiveness and desperation of American foreign policy.
In order to protect the terrorists, the US government ordered the five Cubans to be detained, charged and sentenced to prison terms ranging from 15 years to double life.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/anctoday/docs/cosatu260704.htm   (894 words)

  
 Latest Updates on the Case the Miami Five   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The five were convicted after a politically-charged trial, in which the U.S. government claimed they were engaging in espionage against U.S. military bases and threatening "national security." As the Five maintained in their defense, they were strictly involved in monitoring the actions of the Miami-base right-wing groups.
The five Cubans unjustly found guilty of espionage were only looking for information from the terrorist groups in Florida, in order to pr otect their country from violent acts.Lawyer Paul A. McKenna explained that the next step would be to notify the Appeals Court in Atlanta of their intention to challenge the sentence.
Even with the most persuasive arguments by the five Cubans lawyers and their principled and forthright defense, it cannot erase the greatest injustice of all: that the companeros were convicted for devoting their lives to combating terrorism against their country and people.
www.peacehost.net /CubaSolidarity/five.htm   (5787 words)

  
 New website: "Free the Five" : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is dedicated to the liberation of five Cubans incarcerated in five U.S. federal prisons because they defended the people of Cuba from terrorism emanating from Miami and Washington.
The National Committee to Free the Five Cuban Political Prisoners Unjustly Held in the United States is using every means possible to publicize their case, which is being ignored by the commercial media.
In addition to photos and stirring speeches the five Cubans gave at their sentencing in December 2001, there are poignant talks by their wives, mothers and children.
sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=139812   (478 words)

  
 index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The sole mission of the five Cuban patriots was to monitor these right-wing organizations and report back to the Cuban authorities acquired information on planned terrorist activities.
For seventeen months these five prisoners were isolated in solitary confinement, unable to "maintain adequate communication with their attorney's and prepare their defense with the minimum guarantees of due process", stated President of the National Assembly, republic of Cuba.
On June 8, 2001 the five Cuban patriots were convicted on the charge of espionage.
www.fertileturtle.us /articles/story35.html   (468 words)

  
 Silvio Dedicates Concert in Madrid to the Five Cuban Heroes
Madrid, September 18 (PL).- Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez dedicated the show to his compatriots, the five Cuban prisoners in the United States, in front of the mass attendance to the Spanish Communist Party festival in Casa Campo.
As it happened in his recitals in Barcelona, Salamanca, San Sebastian and Vigo, where the shows were sold-out long before and the arenas were crowded, the audience here in Madrid went to the places early, even though the concert started by midnight.
The five Cuban heroes, prisoners of the empire, as Silvio introduced them, are serving ridiculous sentences including more than one life prison, for fighting against the Miami-based Cuban-origin terrorist mafia.
ww.embacubalebanon.com /loscinco180904e.html   (342 words)

  
 MIAMI5
Tribunal in defense of the five Cuban heroes
The future of education in the five continents was the first tribunal opened, attended by ministers from some 30 nations and UNESCO representatives.
Cuban elementary school student Gabriela Castellanos gave an improvised talk to the 10,000 educators present; she offered greetings from the island’s delegation and affirmed: "the Cuban people’s struggle really shows that a new world is possible."
www.granma.cu /miami5/ingles/083.html   (504 words)

  
 AngolaPress - News
After the half-na-hour audience, the Cuban MP said she delivered to Roberto de Almeida, a declaration approved by her country`s National People`s Assembly condemning the "unjust jailing of five Cuban heroes", accused by the US authorities of spying and terror.
Yolanda Gomez considered the imprisonment of her five fellow-countrymen, since 1998, as an act of pure injustice, arguing that they were in the US territory to fight terrorism and defend the Cuban and the very American people from this world phenomenon.
The Atlanta Justice Court has already considered the judicial sentence as null and void, but the five "heroes" remain imprisoned, in a real highjack that shows the political manipulation with which the process was handled, she said.
feeds.thecubanews.net /?rid=4f3ba23f401b21ab&cat=d3ec65f36ba00308&f=1   (352 words)

  
 MIAMI5
The veteran jurist affirmed that in each of his individual meetings with the five he found much uprightness, heroism and patriotism, that their messages seem coordinated and thus the distance imposed between them in order to weaken their integrity has not succeeded in disuniting them.
Anglada-López believes that it is their physical, emotional and moral fortitude that is giving them the strength to resist the aberrant rigors of prison and the daily arbitrary actions against them despite their model behavior among the prison population, which has been acknowledged in their periodic assessments.
His many anecdotes of this lightning tour of the five prisons include a mayor’s aide trying to draw similarities between René González’s case and that of the terrorists incarcerated for the first explosion in the Twin Towers building.
www.granma.cu /miami5/ingles/0128.html   (382 words)

  
 Maria Julia Mayoral -
Thus the case of the Five is closely related to the backing given by Washington to terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles.
The president of the Cuban Parliament explained that the U.S. Attorney in Florida has just informed the Miami Herald that they are considering a retrial for the Five next year.
The mothers and wives of the Five likewise participated in the meeting and responded to journalists' questions.
mltoday.com /Pages/Cuba/Mayoral-AlarconIfThe5.html   (582 words)

  
 Cuba News / Yahoo! - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
The five Cubans Perez Roque referred to were sentenced in Miami last year on espionage charges.
Cuba has lionized them as heroes, saying they were merely trying to gather information to protect the island against terrorist attacks by exiles in South Florida.
Montes, of Puerto Rican descent, was believed to have been recruited by Cuban intelligence when she worked in the Freedom of Information office at the Justice Department between 1979 and 1985.
www.cubanet.org /CNews/y02/oct02/21e3.htm   (971 words)

  
 The Militant - November 4, 2002 -- U.S. court hands down 25-year sentence in Cuba ‘spying’ case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cuban foreign minister Felipe Perez Roque stated October 18 that he felt "profound respect and admiration for Ms.
Roque said he hopes that someday "it will be unnecessary for men and women of the moral stature of Ana Belen Montes and of the five Cuban heroes--also unjustly imprisoned in the United States--to sacrifice their lives, their families and their personal interests."
Last year five Cuban revolutionaries were convicted on frame-up conspiracy charges, ranging from conspiracy to commit espionage to conspiracy to commit murder.
www.themilitant.com /2002/6641/664112.html   (524 words)

  
 Workers World May 23, 2002: We must free the five Cuban heroes
In the case of the five heroes, the problem is, there is no knowledge about them in the United States.
They were arrested by the FBI not only to imprison revolutionary Cubans, not only to give the green light to the Miami terrorists, but also to intimidate the Cuban community in Miami, which is more and more opposed to the blockade and challenging the terror of the ultra-right.
In the committees in support of the five, one of our principal tasks is to go to the people and seek their backing through signatures on petitions.
www.workers.org /ww/2002/gloriamayday0523.php   (900 words)

  
 Agencia Cubana de Noticias
Havana, (AIN) An international forum taking place in the eastern Cuban city of Holguin on the case of the Cuban Five ended Friday with a call to intensify the struggle for their freedom and return to the island.
Havana, (AIN) Prestigious German lawyer Gunter Belchaus said the growing international solidarity with the cause of the Cuban Five is another demonstration of their innocence.
Havana, Oct 26 (AIN) Awareness and support of the case of the five Cuban political prisoners imprisoned in the US is gaining momentum in Cuba.
www.ain.cu /patriotas2/principal2.htm   (356 words)

  
 MIAMI5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Referring to the Five’s trial, Alarcón pointed out that these patriots were detained and sentenced for the sole purpose of protecting Cuban terrorist groups in U.S. territory.
At the Florida trial the U.S. government requested that the maximum sentence of 15 years be handed down to René González as well as adding that, on his release, he should be prohibited from associating with terrorist individuals or entering places known to be frequented by terrorist groups.
Alarcón said that some day there will be justice for these five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in the United States and outlined the case against Gerardo Hernández, the youngest of the five, who was convicted of conspiracy to murder even though the government recognized it was impossible to prove his guilt.
granmai.cubaweb.com /miami5/ingles/0142.html   (514 words)

  
 Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC) - About Us
To try the Five in Miami was a clear violation of their right to have a trial free of outside influences that were rejudiced against them.
All five Cubans were convicted in June 2001 of serving as unregistered agents of a foreign government.
The decision was made on the basis that the five were not granted access to all the evidence against them, that the trial was partial and that the legal process was in violation of treaties that the United States had signed.
www.vancubasolidarity.com /c5victory.html   (1543 words)

  
 Cuban Five Trust US Justice - Prensa Latina
Havana, Oct 28 (Prensa Latina) The Five Cuban heroes unfairly imprisoned in the US, believe the US judicial system will honor the truth, declared Maria Eugenia Guerrero, sister of Antonio Guerrero, one of The Five.
Speaking to Granma International newspaper, Guerrero asserted that "The Five", as they are internationally known in campaigns for their liberation, are fully confident of their truth and the work of their defense attorneys.
Of the Atlanta court ruling, Maria Eugenia Guerrero said The Five were satisfied with it but they know the road to the US administration's final decision will be long.
feeds.thecubanews.net /?rid=6fcea936dafd8e39&cat=d3ec65f36ba00308&f=1   (305 words)

  
 The Militant - March 22, 2004 -- Róger Calero talks with Cuban readers on U.S. class struggle
Against the attitude that we are victims and have to put up with everything, the view is gaining ground that we have rights, that we’re going to fight for them and look for allies among other workers in the country, in order to fight together.
In the case of the five Cuban revolutionary compañeros imprisoned in the United States, at the time of their solitary confinement we got out the word and held public activities.
Martín Koppel, editor of the Militant and of Perspectiva Mundial, is convinced that in the fight to free the five Cuban heroes the best ally they can have is the working people of the United States.
www.themilitant.com /2004/6811/681150.html   (1332 words)

  
 Update from National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
There will also be local reports on the ongoing campaign to fight for the freedom of the five Cuban heroes, political prisoners in the U.S. It is sponsored by the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, is co-sponsored by the National Network on Cuba and the local committees listed below.
The documentary follows the case of the Cuban Five-five men from Cuba who are unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. for doing nothing more than preventing terrorism against the Cuban people.
It features interviews with Cuban National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcón, former CIA agent Philip Agee, attorney Leonard Weinglass, Cuban activist from Miami, Andrés Gómez, and family members of the Cuban Five.
mltoday.com /Pages/Cuba/Cuban5Update.html   (593 words)

  
 MIAMI5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The five Cuban heroes, imprisoned for devoting their lives to fighting against anti-Cuban terrorist organizations, have suffered all conceivable miseries in US jails, including extended periods of solitary confinement in cells known as the hole, without any justification.
Marta Nieves Ochoa, the detainee’s sister, stated that visas were granted to Nicolás and Sebastián Ochoa, 23 and 22 years old respectively, and that the family is “very grateful” to the embassy, while she defended the right of all extradited Colombian drug dealers to receive visits from their families.
The wives of the last two do not have the right to such visits due to their husband’s condition as political prisoners subjected to the harshest vengeance of the empire.
granmai.cubaweb.com /miami5/ingles/301.html   (483 words)

  
 Latest news about the five heros   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Brief Of The 11th Circuit Court Of Appeals' Opinion On The Case Of The Cuban Five
Cuban Five Triumphant in Appeal before US Court
Announcement from the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
ww.embacubalebanon.com /latest5e.html   (306 words)

  
 "MISSION AGAINST TERROR", The Case of the Cuban Five : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There will also be local reports on the ongoing campaign to fight for the freedom of the five Cuban heroes, political prisoners in the U.S. Please spread the word about these events and the struggle of the Cuban Five.
They are five Cubans who were trying to stop the ultra-right terrorist groups in Miami from carrying out violent actions against the people of Cuba.
The Cuban people have been targets of U.S. policy, including a 43-year economic blockade designed to punish a whole people who have chosen a different road for building their society.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2005/02/1711283.php   (958 words)

  
 Focus on Cuba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Havana, AP, "Cuban foreign minister expresses 'respect and admiration' for convicted U.S. spy," October 18, 2002; and Havana, AFP, "Cuba admits ties to US intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Havana," October 19, 2002
CUBAN GOVERNMENT RECOGNIZES ITS SPIES, AGENTS IN THE U.S. On Friday, October 18 Cuba's foreign minister, Felipe Perez Roque, expressed his government's "profound respect and admiration" for Ana Belen Montes, a senior U.S. intelligence analyst who admitted to spying for Havana during the past 16 years.
Montes was sentenced on October 17 in Washington, DC by U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo M. Urbina to a 25-year prison sentence for conspiracy to commit espionage.
ctp.iccas.miami.edu /FOCUS_Web/Issue27.htm   (115 words)

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