Cuban Five Support Up After US Court Ruling

Havana, Aug 16 (AIN) The judgment of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta to reopen the case of the Cuban Five represents a triumph of Cuban diplomacy, said Lena Loshkina, president of the Russian Committee to Free the Cuban Five.

Loshkina said that the Cuban struggle for the release of the five men never faltered, attracting an ever increasingly number of supporters in the US and even in Miami.

Ultra-right wing organizations in southern Florida tried to portray the five Cubans as spies, she said, when in actually they are brave men who risked their lives in the fight against terrorism to protect Cuba.

The Cuban Five –Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon Labanino and Rene Gonzalez— received harsh sentences in a trial fraught with irregularities after uncovering terrorist plots against Cuba being planned by violent groups in Florida that operate with the consent of the White House.

Lena Loshkina said that since the case of the Cuban Five was publicized in Russia, the number of supporters has sharply increased. ycr