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of one of the Cuban Five Exercises Her Right to Vote in Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 25 (acn) Magali Llort, mother of Fernando
Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban political prisoners in the United
States early in the morning exercised her right to vote in the
elections taking place today in Cuba.
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In a televised statement, Llort said she tries to
keep her son and his friends unjustly imprisoned: Ramón Labañino,
René González, Antonio Guerrero and Gerardo Hernandez informed of
developments in Cuba.
Magali Llort, a Cuban Parliament deputy, said she will try to
contact her son later in the day to let him know about the election
and how people have responded. “We have an election day which we
celebrate with great success.”
The hero's mother explained the significance of massive vote in the
election of delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of People's Power,
to which more than eight million citizens are called and whose
participation is an endorsement to the Revolution.
She highlighted the social achievements in Cuba in the areas of
health and education, among others, and recalled that before the
1959Revolution a person who was poor, as her ailing father, had no
chance of receiving treatment.
Today the Cuban doctors not only defend the lives of our citizens,
but they are in other countries helping their people, she added.
On the upcoming celebration of May Day, she said it was another time
when the pain escalates for the absence of her son Fernando, because
“we always had as a rule in the family to go together to the
demonstrations in the Revolution Square.”
The Cuban Five, as they are known internationally, are suffering
cruel imprisonment since 1998 in the United States, where they were
monitoring the actions of extremist anti-Cuba groups that for years
have planned and executed terrorist actions against Cuba and its
people.
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