Ignacio Ramonet Denounces Media Silence on the Cuban Five

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 13 (acn) “It is a huge injustice that the mainstream media make total silence

on the subject of the Cuban Five,” the prestigious journalist Ignacio Ramonet told Trabajadores

Ramonet, at the launching of his latest book in the 21 International Book
Fair under way in Havana, said that silence is an added punishment on the
five Cubans unjustly incarcerated in the United States for fighting
terrorism against Cuba

He added that hadn’t been for the mobilization of solidarity groups with
Cuba and the Five, people could never hear about them referring to Antonio
Guerrero, Ramon Labanino, Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez and Rene
Gonzalez.

He said that this manipulation about the Cuban heroes shows the bad faith
with which the mainstream press addresses issues related to the Caribbean
nation.

Imposing the truth is a battle, and in this regard he stated that most
people who try to tell the truth about Cuba, essentially disrupting the
lies, have suffered reprisals.

In his case, he recalled that it had cost him his position at the
University, and as he published his book One Hundred Hours with Fidel,
they took away from him a cultural space in the radio and many works as a
correspondent in major newspapers like El País and La Voz de Galicia, both
in Spain.

Ramonet defined his defense of the Cuban Revolution because its
achievements are made out of a humanistic rapprochement to society, and
described as great the theoretical contribution of this historic leader,
Fidel Castro, to the fight to be carried out by progressive intellectuals.

Now, about the Cuban Five, he praised the battle to gain information for
the cause of their liberation, and reported that there are concentrations
in Germany to protest against the cruel treatment they suffer, while three
weeks ago the Social Forum Porto Alegre was the site of intervention in
their favor.

There the writer Fernando Morais presented his enlightening book The last
soldiers of the Cold War, which Ramonet described as a major contribution,
because many people are genuinely confused about this terrible injustice,
he said.

The Cuban Five were young professionals who decided to dedicate their
lives far from home to fight against terrorism in the city of Miami, home
base for the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), the Council for
Freedom of Cuba ( CLC), Brothers to the Rescue, the Democracy Movement,
Alpha-66 and many other organizations of known criminal record.

These heroes were arrested in 1998 and taken to a biased trial in the
completely hostile city of Miami, where it was impossible to conduct a
fair and impartial trial, consistent with the very laws of the United
States and international law.