During his visit to Cuba the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, after a masterly lecture at the Havana University, gave to the relatives of Five Cuban antiterrorist jailed in the United States a postal stamp canceled by Bolivian Postal Service (ECOBOL).
It was an initiative added to the worldwide demand for the liberation of Ramon Labanino, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez and Fernando Gonzalez.
The stamp issued in the National Congress headquarters reproduces the faces of The Five as they are known with a Cuban flag in the background.
The stamp represents 7.50 bolivars (a little over a dollar), the cost for any mail to the United States.
The only crime of The Five was to prevent terrorist groups based in Miami from organizing actions against the Island.
The Five relatives thanked the gestures of solidarity in favor of their liberation.
Stamp calling for the Release from Prison of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly incarcerated in the United States was cancelled in the city of La Paz
Havana, June 11 (acn) A Stamp calling for the Release from Prison of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly incarcerated in the United States was cancelled in the city of La Paz, as part of actions of the Solidarity with Cuba Movement and the Postal Services Company in Bolivia, ECOBOL.
The stamp, issued at the headquarters of the National Congress, depicts the faces of these five heroic men against a Cuban flag as background, Juventud Rebelde newspaper reports.
During the ceremony, ECOBOL general manager Constancio Hugo Choque, underlined that 30,000 of these stamps were put into circulation this week, as part of the international campaign in favor of the release of these five men from prison.
The stamp’s value is 7.50 bolivianos (a little over one dollar), the cost of sending a letter from Bolivia to the United States. The initiative is part of the world campaign in solidarity with Ramón Labañino, René González, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández and Fernando González –The Five, as they’re internationally known-, when they’re now waiting for the US Supreme Court to make public its decision of whether it accepts reviewing their case or not.
A parliamentarian from the governmental Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement to Socialism) (MAS), Antonio Peredo, offered details to the press on the biased trial held against the Cuban antiterrorists by a Miami court.
Peredo said that the only “crime” of The Five was trying to prevent terrorists groups based on that city organizing actions against the Caribbean nation. Cuba’s ambassador in Bolivia, Rafael Dausá, expressed his appreciation for the gestures of solidarity taking place in that country in favor of the release of The Five from prison.
