The militants of AsiCubaUmbria wore white masks and had the
faces of The Five on their chests, and demanded justice for
these patriots, as informed by the www.cubaminrex.cu Web
site.
Many people stopped to ask about and took pictures of the
action, among them US citizens on a visit to Perugia, who
didn’t know anything about the issue, due to the total
silence on the case imposed by the US media.
They learned that Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez,
Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Rene Gonzalez were
arrested in 1998 and condemned to sentences ranging from 15
years to two life imprisonments plus 15 years, for
monitoring the activities of Florida-based anti-Cuban
terrorist groups.
In Perugia, dozens of signatures for the campaign “One
million signatures for The Five” were collected.
AsiCubaUmbria will continue its battle for the release of
Gerardo, Fernando, Ramon, Antonio and Rene, which gets
stronger on the fifth of every month, as part of the
international campaign On the Fifth for The Five.
At the Roca de Umbertide, a photographic exhibition on Cuba
was inaugurated.
Attending the inauguration were Marco Vinicio Guasticchi,
president of the province of Perugia; Gianfranco Giulietti,
mayor of Umbertide; Alessandra Ciattini, anthropologists of
the University of La Sapienza of Rome, and Vladimir Perez,
counselor of the Cuban diplomatic mission to the Italian
capital, among others.
The mayor praised the photography work by Paolo Ferrara, who
has begin to carry out a work of great anthropologic value
that draws the peoples of Cuba and Italy closer together.
In his speech, Ciattini went into the sociopolitical
characteristics of religions for
communication and the enjoyment of freedom of worship on the
Caribbean island.