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Uruguayans
Renew Support to Cuba Five’s Cause
HAVANA, Cuba, May 2 (acn)
Uruguayan authorities and nongovernmental
entities explained to Olga Salanueva, wife of Rene Gonzalez,
one of the
Cuban Five, the revival in their country of the campaign for
the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly
incarcerated in the United States.
Salanueva, who met with
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luis Almagro, and
with the political bureau of the ruling Broad Front party,
headed by its
president Jorge Brovetto, and in the Legislative Palace,
seat of the
Uruguayan Parliament, with the bloc of deputies from the
Broad Front,
continues today with her meetings with Uruguayan
organizations.
In the campaign for the release of the Cuban Five as they
are known
internationally, unjustly sentenced in the United States to
excessive
prison sentences ranging from 15 years to two life sentences
plus 15
years, Salanueva plans talks with Ana Olivera, regional
governor of
Montevideo, says a dispatch Prensa Latina.
She will also meet during the day with the Department of
Gender and the
Executive Secretariat of the PIT-CNT trade union and the
Union of Public
Health.
Salanueva traveled to Montevideo invited by the ruling Broad
Front and the
PIT-CNT, to promote the campaign for the freedom of the
Cuban Five and
participate in the capital in the main event for May Day.
On her first day of stay, she participated in the final
session of the
First Congress of the Regional Political Integration, which
brought
together some 400 delegates from 11 nations in the
auditorium of the
University of the Republic.
She explained the audience the legal process, stressing that
only
solidarity will set them free.
Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero and
Fernando Gonzalez
are serving harsh sentences for reporting d terrorist plans
against Cuba
organized on U.S. soil, while Rene Gonzalez already served
his prison
sentence, but he’s been forced to remain in Florida for
another three
years on probation, without any justification.
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