In the Name of Cuba

Three long years have passed since then, when five Cubans had been put into American high security prisons. During the four years, they had worked as secret agents in the den of Cuban Contras in America, following their activities and preventing acts of terrorism against Cuban authorities and people. It’s no secret that these Cuban contra-rebels had found in the USA, not only their shelter as political immigrants; they have been given and are given financial, diplomatic, technical and advisory assistance as well.

As a result of Cuban contras acts of terrorism during the past 40 years of peaceful life (from 1959 to 1999), there have been killed 3,378 people and 2,099 had been injured or became homeless. However, the murderers are walking free on the streets of American cities and nobody is going to prosecute them for all their terrorist activities, though amongst them are not only Cubans but also American citizens. At that, they are maintained and trained on American territory, thanks to the American taxpayers.

To be sure, not all American citizens share this depraved anti-Cuban policy of the American government. Honest American people are struggling hard to help the Cuban patriots to be discharged. For this purpose they have organized the National Committee for the Liberation of the Cuban Five. The aim of this committee includes wide publicity amongst the American community and against the preconceived decision of the Miami court and the unjustified indictments concerning the Cuban patriot’s supposedly subversive terrorist activities against the US. To prepare and publish truthful information about the Miami Five, they collected $50,000. The Committee for the Liberation of the Cuban Five asked for help of people of good will all over the world.

The appeal has been answered from Germany, Spain, Belgium, Italy, France, Colombia, Argentina, South Africa, Great Britain, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Australia, Canada and the USA - plus the progressive Cubans living in Miami who are in sympathy. This international assistance helped the committee to hire advertising promotions. Members of this Committee work on voluntarily basis without any interest financially for themselves.

In March of 2004, it turned out possible to give a report about the Cuban patriots in the newspaper New York Times. The process in Miami was cruel and cynical. These five Cubans were sentenced to life imprisonment. Their names will go down not only in history of the Cuban people, but in the history of the international liberation movement as well: Rene Gonsales Shuyert, Ramon Lobanino Salasar, Gerardo Ernandes Nordero, Fernando Gonsales Liort and Antonio Gerrero Rodriges.

IN THE NAME OF CUBA

Oh God, how long last years in jail –
Like under stinking stuffy dome.
Would heart not shrink? Would nerves withstand?
So far away from the beloved home.

Being in hugs of gray stone walls
Without the sky, the earth without,
Your brains could be eaten away
With ruthless worms of treach’rous doubt.

You’re separated from your home
And isolated for "good" reasons
And doomed up to the end of life
To live in those Miami prisons.

The trial was bluff, the sentence – rough;
A sneer at justice – all that thing!…
US sees terror everywhere
And crimes in everything.

You, five brave Cubans, did no crime.
It’s just a deed of a fighter
Who’s got in the enemy den.
In the name of freedom lighter.

You’ve saved a lot of human lives
While US, playing tricky games,
Gave shelter on their promised land
To Cuban low treacherous snakes.

Bifacial and venal is their court
Like any US propaganda.
But they can’t break your spirit,
Rene and Ramon.
Gerardo and Antonio,
And Liort Fernando!