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THE CUBAN FIVE PERHAPS SAVED MANY AMERICAN LIVES |
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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. |
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Who are the Cuban Five? Why are they imprisoned in the United States? |
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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. |
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"The Symbol of our National Identity is these Five Men" |
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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. |
