7/30/2008
Delegates to the International Meeting of Intellectuals and Artists for the Unity and Sovereignty of Bolivia demanded the right of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States for fighting terrorism to be visit by their relatives.
Internationally renowned personalities like Belgian academic Francois Houtart, Ramsey Clark from the United States, Representative Antonio Peredo from Bolivia, Ernesto Cardenal from Nicaragua, Frei Betto from Brasil and Pascual Serrano, from Spain, signed a letter with this demand to be send to the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The letter asks Condoleezza Rice the granting of humanitarian visas to Olga Salanueva and Adriana Pérez to visit their husbands, René González and Gerardo Hernández, respectively, whom the women haven’t see since almost 10 years.
“There not exists a reason that justifies keeping these two couples apart,” affirms the text, redacted by the Bolivian Movement of Solidarity with Cuba.
The US authorities have denied to these two women in several occasions the permit to travel to the United States to meet their husbands, who are serving severe sentences.
In the setter, also, is expressed the concern for the delay in the granting of visas to the other relatives of Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, René González and Gerardo Hernández.
