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Solidarity with the Cuban Five in Brazil

Lectures by Risquet at the University of Florianópolis

BRAZIL, August 25, 2009.- Member of the Cuban Communist Party Central Committee, Jorge Risquet, has delivered a series of lectures on the relations between Africa and the Americas and Cuba’s solidarity with the African sister nations from 1961 to date, at the University of Florianópolis, in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, reports the Prensa Latina news agency.

Risquet noted that among the internationalist combatants in Africa are three of the Cuban Five, imprisoned in the United States, and he spoke of their unfair sentences and the harsh incarceration they have been subjected to for almost eleven years.

In this regard, the professors and students attending the conference unanimously agreed to demand that US President, Barack Obama, immediately releases Gerardo, Ramón, Fernando, Antonio and René.

This series of lectures given by the Cuban political leader were organized by the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Florianópolis, where the prestigious Brazilian intellectual Nildo Ouriques is the rector.

Risquet spoke of the massive and prolonged genocide perpetrated by the colonial powers in Africa, and praised the rebellious spirit of the African slaves, the Cimarrons, the rebellions and conspiracies, and their participation on our struggles for independence. (Cubaminrex-Granma)

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