Vol. 71/No. 36 October 1, 2007
U.S. denies visas to wives of Cuban 5
September 12—The International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five reported that the U.S. government denied visas today to Olga Salanueva and Adriana Pérez, wives of two of the imprisoned Cuban revolutionaries.
Two days earlier, mayors of 13 California cities—including Berkeley, Pasadena, Richmond, Salinas, and Santa Cruz—sent a letter to the Justice Department calling for the visas to be granted.
Salanueva, who is married to René González, and Pérez, married to Gerardo Hernández, have been trying for eight years to visit their husbands in jail. Washington has denied them visas every time they have applied.
—CINDY JAQUITH
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