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US Needs to Know about the Five

ECUADOR , October  26, 2007.-  The US people needs to learn that five Cubans are unfairly imprisoned in that country for fighting terrorism, Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon stated in this capital Friday.

"We have to break the great media blockade to publish the cruelty committed against five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters for having fought terrorism within United States," Alarcon told Prensa Latina.

The island"s legislator pointed out that those men were imprisoned and condemned to harsh sentences by the White House, to protect their terrorists working in that territory.

The parliament leader questioned the Washington attitude that has confined Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, Rene Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez, while send young people to kill and die in Iraq, "on behalf of the war against terrorism." "If US people knew that their regime maintains five people cruelly incarcerated for fighting that scourge, punishing mothers, spouses and children of those men prohibiting their visit, there would be an uprising,íhe said.

The ways to break the barrier of silence on the Five will be one of the issues to analyze by over 500 participants from 30 Latin American nations in the Fifth Continental Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, starting in Quito today. (Cubaminrex-PL)