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Fernando González, of "Cuban Five": New Evidence to Exonerate
By Stephen Sefton, teleSUR
Monday, Dec 1, 2014
On November 29th, Fernando González Llort, one of the Cuban Five condemned in 1998 by a Miami court to long prison terms and regarded by most world opinion as political prisoners, met with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. The meeting ended a week-long visit to Nicaragua during which González was awarded the freedom of Nicaragua's capital Managua, as well as three other cities, including León, Masaya and Estelí. He was also honoured by Nicaragua's legislature, the National Assembly.
González dedicated his visit to promoting solidarity in Nicaragua with his three companions still in prison in the United States. Fernando Gonzalez Llort was released after finishing his prison sentence in February of this year. Another member of the Cuban Five, Rene Gonzalez was released in 2013. The three still imprisoned are Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero.
The US government accused the five Cubans of spying, despite their making available to the US authorities evidence of terrorist conspiracies on US territory to attack civilians in another country, Cuba. This year in the UN General Assembly 188 out of 193 countries again voted overwhelmingly for an end to the US blockade of Cuba, many governments called for the release of three members of the Cuban Five still in prison. In recent weeks, The New York Times has published a series of editorials calling for the exchange of the remaining three Cuban Five in US prisons for United States citizens imprisoned in Cuba.
Interviewed for Telesur English during his visit to Estelí, Gonzalez Llorát explained the latest legal development:
What's going on at the moment in legal terms is that a writ of habeas corpus is before the Florida District Court, the same court that tried us originally and before the same judge that has presided over the case for all these years. That writ argues that new evidence has appeared that was not known at the time of the trial and might have changed the result of the trial at that time.
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Mika
(17,751 posts)Thanks for posting this.
Judi Lynn
(160,218 posts)It seemed that George W. Bush's administration's bright idea of paying professional journalists directly to also take on propaganda was just fine with a lot of mentally challenged US Americans, who passed over it without a thought.
Why let morality get in the way of a good time?
Can you imagine how the Cuban 5 people felt when they learned about it?
Sad.
Mika
(17,751 posts)Of course, from my personal experiences in Cuba, Cubans in Cuba know that the swill coming from Cubanet's "journalists" (and reproduced/represented as de facto truth, in US media far and wide) is bought and paid for horse shit.
Problem is that Americans (by-and-large) don't know this. Hence, half of the horse shit seen here.