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René
González Schwerert
that is
how René González wrote to his wife, Olga Salanueva, on November 6, 2000, in
the previous days in which the process hate against Cuba and judicial corruption
blended . He was condemned to 15 years of jail , for the crime of fighting
terrorism. Born in Chicago, in USA, on August 13, 1956, Rene risked his life when at Miami got access to different counter revolutionary organizations which use North American terrorism to organize and carry out terrorist actions and constant provocations against Cuba, aiming to unleash a military confrontation between the island and USA. He was accused of conspiracy and of being an agent of a foreign government, without being a diplomat nor having communicated to the General District. His family was of Cuban emigrants with a working class origin. His father Candido Rene Gonzalez Castillo, a steel worker at Indiana, USA, while his mother, Irma Teododora Sechwerert Milejan was a housewife. On October 2, 1961, his parents , who had cooperated with the July 26 Movement in the struggle against Batista, they returned to definitely establish in Cuba, with their two kids. Rene in a letter to his wife, on November 6 of the year 2002, he added: "I want you to remember I am well. Nobody has the power of making me unhappy, the same way nobody had it to make you go unhappy during your confinement, going through very bad moments. This is not in nobody´s hands, only on mine. I counted with many resources to spend it good, in my punishing cell…Trust me on my training, education I received from my parents and on the dignity I believe…" This was the obliged reference to the cruel conditions in jail, including the stay of 17 months in the hole, the same as the rest of his mates, with which the VIII Amendment of the USA´s constitution was violated. Also Rene was referring to the unfair confinement of his wife for three months in a prison of the INS. Olga Salanueva, graduated of Industrial Engineer , traveled on January , 1997 to USA to join her husband, accompanied by her eldest daughter, Irma. Later in 1998, few months before Rene was arrested, the youngest daughter was born, Yvette,. Rene was able to see his small daughter, born in USA, through the bars of his cell. Right from his detention , a threat process and blackmail towards Olga and her daughters, including psychological and economic pressures, looking betrayal. So sacrifice and danger greatly increased. But even in these circumstances, Olga decided to stay in USA, however, authorities tried in vane to bend her will, but she did not give up to threats nor jail. One of her greatest sufferings was the separation of the two daughters, one of 16 years old and the other of two, incredibly accused of having received "intelligence training" in the island, in other of the so many aberrations they suffer from, At the end of the year 2000 she was deported towards Cuba , so she was able to be with her two daughters. Olga narrated to the press how she tried at the beginning to be allowed to see Rene and be with the daughters, al together, and facing repeated denials , she talked with Rene by phone and carried the girls to have a walk in the surroundings of the prison for him to see them from his cell. "Eight months should have passed, to be allowed to meet and when that occurred, he was handcuffed and we could not hug him", Irma described , the eldest daughter, who was then 14 years of age. Being in jail, Olga received some verses from her husband: If I were
deprived from water which relieves thirstiness
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