How long will impunity last for the notorious terrorists like Santiago Alvarez, Osvaldo Mitat and Manuel Alzugaray – bloody linked to the international criminal Luis Posada Carriles- , and the unjust incarceration of Cuban antiterrorists in the United States (U.S.), whose main goal was to prevent criminal actions against Cuba?
Angry representatives from the American civil society in Miami with the protection “the governments of the US was giving to those terrorists from the extreme right wing who live and plan actions in and from the US” will ask the CIA, the FBI and the State Department – sheltered by the Law of Information Freedom – details on the activities of a mercenary group captured in Havana last April 26 with the purpose to committee terrorist attacks against military facilities.
Days pass by and silence is accomplice and there are new imperial proposals. At the same time the President of the US asserts terrorism is the greatest threat for his country and announces the foundation of a 5 million dollars antiterrorist cooperation fund, assuming his traditional position in front of corroborated anti Cuban criminal actions: covering up and protection of his henchmen in Florida.
How could we understand that the State Department has Cuba in a list of sponsor countries of terrorism, meanwhile it publically protects criminals based in their own territory and also citizens like those captured in Cuba?
Doesn’t that governmental behavior clarify the legitimate Cuban right to defend its territory and the need to have men like Gerardo, Ramon, Antonio, Rene and Fernando monitoring the movements of violent organizations to prevent the death of innocent people?
On the contrary, in the US, when altruist and humanitarian positions like that of the Cuban Five unmask the double standard of a political domain instrument, those gestures turn counterproductive and derive in the greatest cruelties: arrests, biased trials, unjust sentences, excessive condemns, long periods in confinement in solitary, separation and family mornings, even violation of the Law.
Today, there are remote hopes to reach justice by legal means: the habeas corpus on Gerardo, Antonio and Ramon are still without decision and the motion on the secret payment of the government to journalists from Miami –all linked to the well known terrorist groups- before and after the trial against the Cuban Five seems to have no answer.
If a deeply political case deserves a solution to the same level, we should not give up in our determination to keep on joining wills worldwide, because if we want the freedom of these three men, we need a jury of millions, as Gerardo said.
A great part of humanity knows the case of the Cuban Five, but they don’t know it as we would like they do it, above all in the US. From June 4 to 11, there will be held in Washington D.C., the Third Meeting 5 Days for the Cuban Five, a good opportunity for the friends of Cuba to meet there and sensitize important branches of the US policy and impact the international public opinion in issues of vital importance for the world: the struggle against terrorism.
We are in the best conditions for a change in the Cuban-American relations, and the release of the Cuban antiterrorist fighters could be a firm step in that course. Cuba is ready to collaborate and hold talks on the most diverse and complex bilateral issues, provided that there is mutual respect of sovereignty, with neither pressures nor previous conditions.
There is no reason why to prolong the punishment against Antonio, Ramon and Gerardo. Thinking and behaving differently deserves respect and tolerance. Obama has to listen to his own people and to important personalities of the political and social life of America and the world, who are asking him to make good use of his rights and free these fighters for life. It is needed to pave the route to walk the way that has been harmed in the past with stagnant policies against Cuba and assume new relations marked by pacific coexistence between neighboring peoples.
