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Paintings by Cuban Hero Antonio Guerrero in Los Angeles

CUBA, May 21, 2010. An exhibition of the art and poetry of Antonio Guerrero, one of the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly incarcerated in the United States, will be inaugurated on Saturday at the Gallery of the former Venice Prison, in California.

A communiqué sent to Prensa Latina news agency by the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five points out that "under extraordinary circumstances, art turns into the main resource and the last refuge of human spirit."

In no other example this is truer than in the art and poetry of Antonio Guerrero, whose exhibition, entitled “Desde mi Altura”, will be inaugurated on Saturday in the city of Los Angeles, the Granma newspaper reports on Friday.

The naturalistic paintings by Antonio Guerrero speak about his dignity, courage and patience. These pieces, conceived in absolute isolation, consist of scenes drawn from his memory, as lyric reflections of his nostalgia for Cuba, points out the document.

Guerrero, along with Rene Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino and Fernando Gonzalez –The Five, as they’re known internationally- has been unfairly incarcerated in the United States since 1998.

The only mission of these patriots was to warn the island about the terrorist plans of Florida-based ultra-right groups, which, for decades, have carried out acts of sabotage, assassination attempts and bacteriological attacks against the Cuban people, resulting in 3,478 deaths and over 2,000 people wounded, as well a millions of dollars in economic losses.   

The International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five will carry out activities in solidarity with The Five and with the Right to Family Visits, which will include, this weekend, the exhibition of paintings, poems and documentaries, and special presentations by actors and activists like Edward Asner, Danny Glover and Dolores Huerta.

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