The largest delegations will be those of the United States, Brazil and Cuba, according to information provided to ACN by Antonio Raudillo Martin, president of the Cuban Society of Labor Law and Social Security, one of the groups of Cuba’s National Association of Jurists.

He pointed out that one of the speeches of the inaugural ceremony will be in charge of Dean Hubbard, labor coordinator of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG).

This group of US lawyers presented an amicus before the Florida federal court in 2003 to support the motion for a new trial for the Five Cuban antiterrorists incarcerated in the United States for 11 years now, condemned to unfair and long sentences for fighting terrorism.

Over 5,000 law professionals are members of this organization, the president of which, Michael Avery, as well as other executives, visited Havana in 2004 to listen to the denunciations of relatives of Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino and Rene Gonzalez –The Five, as they’re known internationally.

They expressed their interest in knowing more about the problems they still have to obtain entry visas to visit the detainees, especially the cases of Olga Salanueva and Adriana Perez, the wives of Rene Gonzalez and Gerardo Hernandez, respectively, which they consider violations of the rights of women and families.

The 12th Central American and Caribbean Congress on the Right to Employment and Social Security will begin its sessions on Tuesday at Havana’s Hotel Nacional de Cuba, along with the 4th International Congress of Labor Relations Lawyers and of the trade union movement in defense of the right to employment and social security.