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Puerto Rico’s Juan Rius Rivera Solidarity Brigade in Cuba.

CUBA, July 11, 2011.- The 20th contingent of the Puerto Rican Juan Rius Rivera Brigade in solidarity with Cuba arrived in Havana this weekend for a program of activities that began on Sunday with a tribute to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti.

Milagros Rivera, director of the brigade and president of the Committee of Solidarity with Cuba, told ACN that the purpose of their visit is to strengthen the existing friendship ties between Cuba and Puerto Rico and to support the struggle for the release of Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino and Antonio Guerrero, the five Cuban antiterrorists who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998 for monitoring extreme right-wing groups in South Florida that were planning and carrying out terrorist actions against the Caribbean nation.

Acording to Kenia Serrano, president of the Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP), the over 125 members of the brigade, who also support the release of Puerto Rican political prisoners, will visit schools, factories and other places in different Cuban provinces.

The group thanked their Cuban hosts for the opportunity to pay tribute also to the Father of the Puerto Rican nation, Ramon Emeterio Betances, to Puerto Rican revolutionary and poet Lola Rodriguez, and to Juan Rius Rivera, a Puerto Rican who fought for the independence of Cuba. (Cubaminrex-ACN)

 

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