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Brazilian Personalities Urge Obama to Release the Cuban Five.

CUBA, 17 March 2011.- The Brazilian chapter of the Network in Defense of Humanity requested US President Barack Obama on Wednesday to put an end to the blockade of Cuba, as well as the release of The Five.

Signed by famous architect Oscar Niemeyer, Honorary President of this entity, and Marilia Guimaraes, president of the Brazilian Chapter, the letter began to circulate on Wednesday on the Internet, the Prensa Latina news agency reported.

The text reminds Obama, who will visit Brazil this weekend, the broken promises of his electoral campaign, and underlines that his government was expected to bring peace and justice for the beloved Caribbean island.

End the blockade of Cuba and release the five Cuban Heroes, in the name of the real integration of the peoples, urges the document addressed to Obama.

For more than 12 years now, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino and Fernando Gonzalez are unfairly imprisoned in the United States for warning their country about violent acts organized by Florida-based anti-Cuban terrorist groups, under the protection of US authorities.

As it is known –specifies the message- in spite of the existence of the US blockade for over 50 years now, Cuba has managed to occupy an important place in the world, with significant advances in biotechnology, education and public health.

Niemeyer, a friend of Cuba and of its leader, Fidel Castro, is known to be one of the artists that have greatly renewed 20th century architecture and a fervent communist militant, and has been awarded the Lenin Peace Prize (1963).

The centenarian architect conceived Brasilia, along with town planner Lucio Costa, in 1960, and also participated in the conception of the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. (Cubaminrex-ACN)

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