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A concert to welcome one of the Cuban Five and Hero of the Cuban Republic, Fernando Gonzalez Llort was held at the stairs of the legendary University of Havana with Cuban music and happiness. It was performed on Saturday, February 1. He is the second of the Cuban Five released after sentenced by an American court in the United States (U.S.) in one of the most biased trials ever known in the American justice.
“Your family has grown,” said Yunisasky Vaquero, secretary general of the Cuban Young Communist League (UJC). “Homeland welcomes you as a victorious son coming back with mission accomplished.
Here are your people you fought for; following Marti’s thought that the power of just ideas is able to win an army even thought they are at the bottom of a cave.
The struggle is not over. There are still three more brothers held in the U.S., serving absurd and vindictive imprisonment, she stressed. We will neither wait with our arms crossed that Antonio Guerrero and Ramon Labanino return home after they serve their sentences, nor we will resign that Gerardo Hernandez will never be freed, deprived to kiss his wife he is forbidden to see. We appeal to the feelings, values and good sense of those who can and should let them free. We want them free now!
In the concert there was a representation of those artists who have struggle for their return home. The concert was a gift of the Cuban people to welcome Fernando Gonzalez.
The Cuban hero, when addressing the audience, thanked everybody and said it was indescribable the emotions lived since the plane landed in Cuba and was welcomed at the foot of the steps of the plane by the Cuban President, Army General Raul Castro.
Gonzalez LLort said. “I am really grateful for the struggle of the people for the return of the Cuban Five and the support he received in these 15 years. I know you will never stop until the rest of our brothers will return home too.”
Gonzalez Llort also thanked the musicians and artists. He also stressed the role of the youth in the tasks of the Revolution following the thoughts of the invincible Commander in Chief Fidel Castro. He added the concert was also devoted to the rest of his brothers Tony, Ramon and Gerardo.
After Gonzalez’ speech followed the music with David Blanco, Vicente Feliu and Eduardo Sosa with their poetry, reflective. There was also the performance of Aramis Padilla and Hector Gutierrez; Tony Avila and Gerardo Alfonso. The closing was with the popular groups of Havana de Primera and Alexander Abreu, Yoruba Andabo and Van Van.
There were also present Gonzalez Llort’s relatives, the first vice president Miguel Diaz-Canel; Mercedes Lopez Acea and Bruno Rodriguez, members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and other political and government leaders; as well as Rene Gonzalez, the first of the Cuban Five that was released.
