Hurricane Carter who was wrongly convicted in the U.S. and spent some 23 years of his life behind bars for a crime he had not committed passed away peacefully in Toronto last week. His tireless efforts in prison and afterwards to prove his innocence and commitment to fight on behalf of the wrongly convicted gives us strength and hope in the fight to free all the anti-terrorist Cuban Five political prisoners unjustly held in U.S. prisons.
Although Hurricane Carter is no longer physically with us, his spirit continues fighting for the wrongly convicted alongside with the heroic example of the Cuban Five who have not renounced their mission to defend Cuba, and by extension all humanity, from the scourge of terrorism which has caused the deaths of 3478 people and permanent injuries to thousands more. Their "crime" of exposing U.S.-based terrorism against Cuba will not stand the light of day once more and more people join the fight against this injustice and gain freedom for Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero. International solidarity with the Cuban Five has thus far brought René González and Fernando González home to their loved ones after spending some 15 years behind bars. Now we also know that the United States government paid journalists in the Miami area to saturate the media with negative articles and news reports to defame the Cuban Five and pressure a "selected" jury in order to get a "conviction". The Cuban people have not seen a day without aggression from the U.S. government since Jan. 1959 when they decided to build their own destiny. This month, we learned about the scandalous ZunZuneo plan by the U.S. government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to subvert the Cuban order. We are also aware of two other such programs: “Commotion” and “Piramideo”, which are still in place in an attempt to bring down the Cuban government. All of these attempts are in vain, while Cuban internationalism has proven that Patria Es Humanidad (Homeland Is Humanity) as millions of human beings are benefiting from the life-saving assistance of Cuban doctors, educators and artists amongst other professionals and, one by one, they will join us in the fight to Free All the Cuban Five. From Presidents of states to parliamentarians, artists, intellectuals, trade union leaders, workers, legal entities and thousands upon thousands of ordinary human beings have already joined the fight for the freedom of All the Cuban Five and, as Gerardo Gernández has stated: "A jury of millions will bring us home". Hurricane Carter Presente! And we shall overcome the injustice imposed on the Cuban Five. Morteza Gorgzadeh Toronto Forum on Cuba
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