Re the Oct. 8 article Terrorism issue lifts Martinez: Somehow in Miami, anti-Cuba terrorists are embraced as heroes. That is because Miami anti-Cuba terrorism is woven into the fabric of city and county politics.

What else could explain the welcoming of three notorious terrorists -- Pedro Remón, Guillermo Novo and Gaspar Jiménez -- into Miami in late August?

What else could explain the naming of March 25, 1983, as ``Orlando Bosch Day?''

What else could explain the unconscionable 2001 conviction by a Miami jury of the five Cuban men falsely labeled as spies in the Miami press, but whose sole mission, at great personal risk to themselves, was to monitor and stop bombings, assassinations and other criminal acts against Cuban and U.S. citizens? Known by their supporters as the Cuban Five, their continued imprisonment is an injustice that people in the United States are working to reverse.

GLORIA LA RIVA, coordinator, National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, San Francisco