Prensa Latina
Caracas, Apr 20.- The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) demanded on Tuesday in Venezuela that the US government immediately release of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters it unfairly keeps imprisoned.
In the final declaration of the Ninth Summit of the regional bloc, statesmen from Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela also demanded Washington a fair treatment for the Five and their relatives.
"We demand the Five and their relatives receive a humane and decent treatment, including the granting of visa and the possibility for their wives and children to visit them," participants in the event stated in the document entitled "Caracas Bicentennial Manifesto Strengthening the New Independence."
Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino and Rene Gonzalez are currently serving harsh sentences in separate high-security US jails, for defending their country from violent actions by anti-Cuban groups operating from US territory.
The ALBA countries also demanded from Washington the immediate and unconditional end of the economic, trade and financial blockade on Cuba, a unilateral measure imposed in 1962. The international community has overwhelmingly called for an end to that hostile policy as shown in systematic votes of condemnation at the UN, where 187 countries rejected the blockade last October 2009, ALBA leaders recall.
