Justice Will Prevail in Our Cause

THE CUBAN FIVE PERHAPS SAVED MANY AMERICAN LIVES

The most tragic aspect of all this for the US people is that while Pesquera and his troops were maliciously devoting all their time to the persecution, arrest and rigging of the trial of the Cubans, no less than 14 of the 19 responsible for the September 11 attacks on New York's Twin Towers and other targets were living and training exactly in the area for which Pesquera was responsible.

Who are the Cuban Five? Why are they imprisoned in the United States?

Civil rights attorney Leonard Weinglass represents Antonio Guerrero, one of the five Cuban prisoners unjustly incarcerated in the U.S. for defending their homeland. As the legal team and supporters of the Five awaited the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision on the case, Socialism and Liberation's Ian Thompson interviewed Weinglass about the Cuban Five and the importance of the case for the U.S. and Cuba. Today we present first fragment of this interview.

"The Symbol of our National Identity is these Five Men"

The Cuban writer Roberto Ferández Retamar, who is president of the Havana literary and art center, La Casa de las Americas, said recently that when talking of true heroism the Cuban Five indeed can be called symbols of Cuban national identity. They are men who have carried out and continue to build the Island's Revolution.

Keys for understanding the trial

Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, Ramón Labañino Salazar, Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez, Fernando González Llort, and René González are five Cubans arrested in Florida in September 1998. They were tried and convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and related charges in the one place they could not get a fair trial: Miami. Their case is typical of the political trials the United States criticizes as contrary to respect for human rights when they occur in other countries.

The Real Reason of the Cuban Five case

Ordinarily, if five people caught in the U.S. were working for another country, they would simply be returned to their home country. This is especially true if, like the Five, they were not armed and did not inflict injury or property damage. However, in this instance three of the Five are doing life and two are doing very long prison terms. That kind of hostile treatment is reserved solely for the Cuban Revolution.

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