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Latin American Countries Claim Freedom for the Cuban Five

CUBA, May 6, 2010. Like in capital cities of dozens of countries around the world, people in Latin America raised their voices on the fifth of the fifth month of the year to call for freedom for the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters imprisoned in the United States.

On that date at 5:55 pm, Cuban Five supporters marked the World Day for the Freedom of Antonio Guerrero, Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Gerardo Hernandez and Fernando Gonzalez, incarcerated in American jails since 1998.

Ecuadorians and Cubans living in that country held a meeting in a centrally located park in Quito, named El Arbolito in which Marco Dehesa, leader of the Association of Cubans Living in Ecuador, read a public letter addressed to US President Barack Obama asking him to release the Cubans in the name of the war against terror he boasts about, reported Prensa Latina.

Meanwhile in Brazil, Cubans residing in that country sent emails to the American president with the same purpose.

Also in Mexico, Cuban-born children released five white doves as a symbol of the claim for freedom of the Cuban Five.

Mexicans and Cubans living in that country met in the Cuban embassy to express their solidarity with Antonio, Rene, Ramón, Gerardo and Fernando.

The Bolivian Movement of Solidarity with Cuba in La Paz along with Cubans rallied in front of the US embassy to protest for the imprisonment of the Cuban Five.

The president of the Association of Cubans Living in Bolivia, Yana Fernandez, read a letter to president Obama in which she urges him to "clean up the terrorist trash you have at home before looking outside," in reference to confessed terrorists Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch who enjoy freedom in that country. (Cubaminrex- ACN)

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