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They never harmed anyone, yet they are
in prison while the anti-Cuba terrorists whom they tried to stop are
walking freely in Miami. How did the five Cubans try to stop them?
By monitoring the terrorists' actions and informing Cuba of
impending attacks by those extremist groups.
The five Cubans are Gerardo
Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, René González, and
Fernando González. They were convicted in a U.S. federal court on
June 8, 2001 in a politically-charged trial: the U.S. government
claimed they were engaged in espionage on U.S. military bases and
threatened "national security" and that one had conspired
to commit murder. Both charges are a complete fabrication. In 14,000
pages of transcript, no espionage evidence was ever introduced and
no witness or material witness was able to support the charge of
conspiracy to commit murder.
The arrest, detention, trial and
conviction were a mockery of the principles of justice and the rule
of law. Political corruption and judicial bias influenced the
process from start to finish.
The five Cubans were strictly
involved in monitoring the actions of terrorist right-wing groups in
Miami. These groups - such as the Cuban American National
Foundation, Omega 7, Alpha 66, Brothers to the Rescue, Brigada 2506,
and Comandos F4 - have caused the deaths and injury of hundreds of
people in Cuba and other countries.
For more than 40 years, anti-Cuban
right-wing groups in Miami have engaged in countless terrorist
activities against Cuba, against Cuban-Americans and anyone who
calls for a normalization of relations between Cuba and the U.S..
Several of those organizations were established with the financing,
training and backing of the C.I.A., in the early 1960s. Their sole
aim was to sow terror and violence against the people of Cuba.
For example, notorious anti-Cuba
terrorists Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles conspired in the
planting of two bombs on a Cubana Airlines plane on October 6, 1976.
In the horrific explosion that occurred mid-flight from Barbados to
Cuba, 73 innocent people died. Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada
Carriles are longtime CIA agents trained in assassination and
sabotage.
After a few years in prison, Bosch
was allowed to re-enter the U.S. in the 1980s. When the Justice
Department moved to deport him in 1989 for a series of violent
actions, then-president George Bush pardoned him. Today, Bosch lives
in Miami freely, although he is responsible for the deaths of over
80 people.
Because of the persistent refusal of
the U.S. government to act against these known criminal
organizations and individuals whose sole aim is to cause death and
destruction on the Cuban people, Cuba found it necessary for its
self-defense to send in these five men to prevent future attacks by
monitoring the groups' actions.
The Cuban Five are punished not for
harming or threatening to harm the United States, but for their
capacity to render light on the intimate complicity between
terrorist groups in Miami and powerful people within the U.S.
government.
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