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Vol. 73/No. 5      February 9, 2009

 
Cuban 5 offer solidarity
to Palestinians in Gaza
 
The Cuban Five, who have been unjustly incarcerated in the United States for a decade on frame-up charges, released an “urgent message to the Palestinian people” as Israeli troops attacked the Gaza Strip. The five—Antonio Guerrero, René González, Fernando González, Gerardo Hernández, and Ramón Labañino—were arrested in southern Florida in 1998, where they were monitoring the activities of right-wing Cuban exiles who carried out armed attacks on Cuba with Washington’s blessing. They were convicted in 2001 on charges of “conspiracy to commit espionage” and in one case, “conspiracy to commit murder.” The following translation of their message appeared in the January 21 Granma International.

It is with profound pain and infinite indignation that we have witnessed the criminal massacre of the Palestinian people; there are no words to describe this holocaust. The death of every innocent child, women and man and the destruction of the homeland’s holy ground are crimes against humanity and debts that will someday be paid for dearly by the government of Israel, the United States—which supports the former—and international imperialism.

From five prisons scattered throughout the bowels of the United States, we condemn this crime with all our strength; we demand that the barbarity stop now and we send all of our love and support from the deepest part of our souls to the beloved Palestinian people.

We will be with you today and always. If there is one thing that profoundly hurts us about our imprisonment it is that we cannot do much more for you, for your cause, for our peoples, but we trust that soon we will be able to accompany you physically.

The world must unite and condemn the Israeli government, the Unites States government and the imperialist governments, creators of holocausts.

Stop the war and massacre!

Long live the Palestinian people!

Venceremos!

The Cuban Five
Antonio Guerrero
René González
Fernando González
Gerardo Hernández
Ramón Labañino
 
 
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