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Birthday
greetings to Fidel from the Five
THE
five Cuban heroes unjustly imprisoned in different U.S. jails
sent birthday greetings to Fidel for his 76th birthday.
In
his letter René González affirmed: “from this somber
place, designed for the function of sadness, I can happily
thank life for allowing me the luxury of sending you these
birthday greetings, knowing that friendly hands of solidarity
will get them to you”
Replying
to René’s message, the Cuban president affirmed that he had
recalled “those times when I had to illuminate the solitary
nights with a pale and flickering oil lamp, my eyes burning
and heart bleeding with indignation, in a cell in the Model
Prison.
“That
experience,” Fidel stressed, “will never be erased from my
mind, nor will the conviction that gave me heart then: ‘Good
people will continue to unite and will become
invincible.’” He added: “That same conviction in us
today is heartening you, the heroes of our people, imprisoned
by the empire, with your heroic, dignified and unyielding
fight¼”
Fernando
González Llort’s message to the Cuban president
highlighted: “every corner of our country reveals the
imprint of your concern for the homeland and the people¼
and your sure, optimistic, almost magical touch can be found
in every factory, every workshop, every hospital, every school
and every child”
For
his part, Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez wrote his message in the
form of a decima (10-line stanza). He wrote: “this
unconquered soldier, who rides/fearlessly toward the sun of
death/against the brittle dust of the soul/comes and bears in
his hands/a gigantic heart, offering it to the world”
Ramón
Labañino expressed his feelings of honor and pride at being
able to congratulate Fidel on his 76th birthday and expressed
his regret at: “not being there today to embrace you
personally, but I know that your example and image accompanies
us”
Meanwhile,
Gerardo Hernández Nordelo demonstrated Fidel’s vitality on
his 76th birthday, as opposed to the lies of the Miami mafia,
in the form of three cartoons.
In
his replies to the messages sent by Fernando, Antonio, Gerardo
and Ramón, the Cuban president told them: “reading your
greetings, I felt that they signified an immense honor.
“Together
with my thanks,” he added, “please receive a strong and
revolutionary embrace over there where you are unjustly jailed
in the solitary and dark prisons of the disturbed and brutal
empire that hates us, because it has been unable and will
never be able to defeat us.
“Today,
all of you, as combatants in the front line in a heroic,
dignified, just and unyielding fight, embody the highest
example of the patriotism of a nation resolutely decided on
its independence and its Revolution” |
--Cuban
prisoners in Miami honored as Heroes of the Republic of Cuba,
acknowledgement of their mothers and wives
December
30,
2001
BESTOWING
the title of Heroes of the Republic of Cuba on Gerardo Hernández
Nordelo, Ramón Labañino Salazar, Fernando González Llort,
René González Sehwerert and Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez,
Cubans unjustly imprisoned in Miami,...
--Fidel leads protest rally in
front of the U.S. Interests Section
June
29,
2001
PRESIDENT Fidel Castro led a militant rally
at the José Martí Anti-Imperialist Tribunal, across from the U.S. Interests Section in
Havana, in protest against the unjust accusations against the five Cubans held in the
dismal and dark prison labyrinth in Miami.
--René
Gonzalez’s father was separated from his son for 11 years
ON the telephone he would assure his father: "I’m fine,
old man, no problems." On the island they would doubt him and say: "he’s
having us on..."
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