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Ivette
finally embraced Rene
By Joel Mayor Lorán
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Joel@granma.cip.cu -
After eight years
of separation, Rene Gonzalez, one of the Cuban Five, and his
daughter Ivette finally got together at the Marianna, Florida, US
prison on the 30th of December of 2006, according to a statement
from the family of the hero, who is a political prisoner of the
United States.
This information
was made public during Friday’s Cuban Round Table Broadcast.
The girl went
accompained by her sister Irma, due to the criminal and insane
decision of impeding the presence of her mother and wife of Rene.
This is a humane right accorded to all prisoners all over the world.
It was the first
time that their communication was not by telephone since father and
daughters were abruptly separated, when the Ivette was just four
months old.
For years, the
family has wanted to have the opportunity of all meeting together,
but they have not been able to do so. Psychologists had advised that
during Ivette’s meeting with Rene, the mother should be present, but
the time had arrived when it was necessary for the meeting of the
father with his daughter again.
Because the US
government was still impeding her mother from visiting him, Rene had
asked Irma if she would take Ivette to the US. “As soon as my father
appeared, she recognized him,” the elder sister affirmed. “I saw the
tears, and I felt very happy because I saw him happier.”
Ivette told how she
kissed him and they talked, but that she would have preferred that
her mother be there too. This, said the elder sister who has seen
her father on several occasions, raised in her even more the urgency
to see him freed.
Every visit becomes
more difficult. It’s another pressure to struggle for his return,
Irma added.
Meanwhile his wife,
Olga Salanueva, declared that she was even removed from her
husband’s visitors list. They deny her the right to enter the United
Status, when all she wants is to see her husband. “Ivette will soon
to be 9 years old, and we don’t have a single family group photo.
How long will we have to wait for a photo of the four of us
embracing together? |
