antiterroristas.cu
March 19, 2010
Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon said Thursday that the Obama administration continued the U.S. policy of promoting anti-Cuba terrorism.
Alarcon made the remarks at a forum organized by the International Relationship Committee of the Parliament, as part of the campaign for the release of five Cuban prisoners in the United States since 1998.
"The five are punished for fighting terrorism. What the U.S. authorities have done proves that Washington continues promoting terrorism against Cuba as it has done for half a century," he said.
"The truth which the imperial propaganda keeps in the shadows is written in the documentation of what has been the longest trial in American history, of which, however, the U.S. mainstream media refuse to take notice," Alarco said.
The "Cuban Five" -- Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Rene Gonzalez, Fernando Gonzalez and Antonio Guerrero -- were arrested in 1998 when they were monitoring Cuban extremist groups based in the U.S. city of Miami.
The five were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 15 years to double life imprisonment in 2001 on charges of espionage and endangering the U.S. national security.
The five detainees and the Cuban government held that they never tried to obtain secret information from the U.S. government.
