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Washington Post advertisement demands freedom for the Cuban Five / Comité por la liberación de los Cinco publica anuncio en The Washington Post

5/1/2012

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Washington.— A full-page ad appeared April 30, in the Washington Post demanding the immediate release of the Five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998. Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and René González, were arrested September 12 that year and subjected to a trial riddled with irregularities as a result of political motivations.

The advertisement, placed by the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, was published thanks to donations made by more than 325 organizations.

Gloria La Riva, coordinator of the Committee stated that every centimeter of coverage in the written press, every minute on television or radio about the Five, has been a struggle.

"That is why we decided to purchase the full-page announcement in The Washington Post," La Riva emphasized, "to demand that the ruling class, from U.S. President Obama to members of Congress and the Justice Department, right this terrible injustice and free the Five."

"We are deeply grateful to all of the people who helped to make the publishing of this advertisement possible," she added.

The Washington Post is the most widely read newspaper in the U.S. capital and the sixth largest in the country, with a daily printed circulation of more than 500,000 and 1.8 million readers a day.

The solidarity group published its first full-page ad in the New York Times, March 3, 2004, which represented the most extensive publicity the case had received, at that point, in the mass media.

Since then, several ads have been placed in different media and a number of press conferences held, as part of the effort to break through the wall of silence surrounding the case.

GRANMA
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Comité por la liberación de los Cinco publica anuncio en The Washington Post

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WASHINGTON, 30 de abril.— Un anuncio a página completa apareció publicado hoy en el diario The Washington Post, donde se exige la inmediata liberación de los Cinco y se condena la actuación del gobierno de EE.UU. La publicación fue colocada por el Comité Nacional para Liberar a los Cinco cubanos, gracias al esfuerzo de más de 325 organizaciones que contribuyeron con recaudaciones, informa PL.

Gloria La Riva, coordinadora del Comité, declaró que "cada centímetro de cobertura de los periódicos, cada minuto de la televisión y la radio sobre los Cinco cubanos y su misión antiterrorista y la campaña por su libertad ha sido una lucha.

"Es por eso que decidimos sacar un anuncio de página completa en el The Washington Post, para exigir que la clase política, desde el presidente Obama hasta los miembros del Congreso y el Departamento de Justicia, corrija esta terrible injusticia y libere a los Cinco", dijo.

The Washington Post es el periódico más leído en la capital estadounidense, el sexto más grande del país. Según la empresa Nielsen Ratings, es el diario más leído en el Congreso y en el Poder Ejecutivo y el único periódico que los líderes políticos en Washington consultan en un día ajetreado, destaca un comunicado del Comité.

La agrupación de solidaridad con los Cinco publicó su primer anuncio de página completa en The New York Times el 3 de marzo del 2004, como parte de la estrategia para romper el muro de silencio que rodea el caso.

GRANMA

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