Scheduled for Friday morning is the presentation of the Trilho Popular Theater Group, while in the afternoon singer-songwriter Raul Ellwanger will perform. Following this will be the panel "The Five Heroes: when authoritarianism goes beyond human rights, the Prensa Latina mews agency reports.

Participating in this panel will be Magali Llort, the mother of Fernando Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly imprisoned in the United States since 1998; historian Enrique Serra, and justice advocate Gino Bastos.

On Friday night, Homero Acosta, secretary of the Cuban Council of State, will address participants, and the lecture "The international media campaign against Cuba and its expression in Brazil" will be given.

Also programmed for Friday is a recital by Cuban troubadour Vicente Feliu and by his Argentinean colleague Gabo Sequeira, who will sing pieces from "Confidential Songs", an album based on the book Confidential Poems, by Antonio Guerrero, one of the Five Heroes.

Representatives of 12 from the 27 Brazilian states will take part in this solidarity-with-Cuba meeting, which will end with the approval of the Porto Alegre Charter.