Fernando González Llort.

Graduate from the Raul Roa Garcia Superior Institute of International Relations.

“Fernando is a typical Cuban,” says  his mother 

Fernando González Llort was born in Havana on August 18, 1963. Since he was very young  he took on  responsibilities in the student organizations of the secondary education and at the University, as well as in the Union of Communist Youths. 

He graduated with golden diploma at the Superior Institute of International Relations. “During his school days—his mother remembered--, he liked to go to parties, to the beach with a tent, and he always encouraged his friends because “he always saw the things from a positive point of view and tried not to be tormented.” 

“Fernando is a typical Cuban - the mother specified trying to characterize him---, he is not an extraordinary being, he likes to play ball, he participated in all the voluntary works, he is a normal being, he likes music and he prefers   Silvio Rodríguez. 

In another moment of the encounter and with vivacity, Magali Llort Ruiz—Fernando’s mother—revealed that her only male son prefers, above any food,  yucca with “mojo”, “since he  left  I have not cooked it any more , and I won’t make it again until he returns.  I will put yucca on the table the day when returns.” 

He fulfilled a mission as an internationalist fighter in the Republic of Angola, in a battalion of tanks. 

In 1988,  he  entered  the Communist Party of Cuba and, by the middle of the 90s  left Cuba to fulfill  the task of safeguarding the life of his countrymen threatened by 43 years of terrorist aggressions organized in the territory of the United States. “I reaffirm my pride to be part of the Cuban people and of its Revolution, ”Fernando stated in letter to his countrymen’s mother moments before receiving his 19 year-old sentence in the faked  and vengeful trial that was developed against five heroic Cuban in Miami.  

During the sentence hearings that took  place in Miami, Fernando was proud of being one of those who have prevented  terrorist acts and he reiterated that neither him nor his partners  conspired against the national security of the USA, nor did they spy any military installation  that nation.  

He is  in love with his wife Rosa  Freijanes Coca, who highlighted Fernando’s  their loyalty to his comrades, to his friends, to the Revolution and its principles.

FERNANDO WATCHED OVER TERRORISTS

Fernando’s mission was watch over Orlando Bosh, a terrorist of Cuban origin.

Bosh was accused of being one of the intellectual authors of the explosion of a Cuban commercial airplane that took the life of 73 people in October,1976. He has also been involved in other actions against the government of the Island, and in spite of being registered as terrorist in the North American police files, he walks   freely  along the streets of Miami, the panelists remembered.  

In the defense statement read in the court, little before receiving the sentence, Fernando González denounces the existent complicity between the government of the United States and the extremist Anti-Cuban  that act against the Island. 

“The terrorist groups of the extreme right of Miami were created and trained by the CIA,” expressed the accused.  

“The Cuban people is entitled to defend itself, because up to now the American government that is the one in charge of enacting the laws, has made very little, or nothing, to stop the activities against Cuba. 

“I never  endangered the national security of United States, it was not my intention nor my comrades,” Fernando González stated in his defense statement. 

Cuba also considers that its citizens have been subjected to a “political and faked”  trial, designed to satisfy the thirst of vengeance” of the extremist sectors of the Cuban community in the northern country. 

“It cannot have double standards, terrorism it should be  eliminated whether it is committed  against a powerful country or against a small nation,” González asserted when defending his activities inside the  American territory. 

ACCUSATION

The first accusation  presented by the office consisted of only 9 pages, where  there are barely references to facts, and where adjectives and epithets prevail. It was a maneuver to earn time until a second accusation was presented, in May, 1999, eight months after their arrest. It was then when the charge of conspiracy to assassinate was presented. It was  based on the supposed relationship of one of the accused, Gerardo, in the bringing down of the light planes that violated the Cuban air space in February, 1996. 

This accusation  had been a main topic of the terrorist Mafia and of the scandalous and unceasing campaigns of the Press of Miami. That second accusation had  40 pages, with charges to open the process, this is a more documented proposal, with the intention of characterizing the supposed actions that they had made, but it had the taste of the charge that is  “cooked” to slow fire for 8 months to please the enemies of Cuba. It unquestionably proves that we are in presence of a political, clearly faked and manipulated trial. 

There are, in summary, five charges: The first one, the conspiracy consists of an agreement to commit crime against the United States or to deceive that country. 

The second charge is that of espionage, that is to say, to gather information and to transmit it. But, in that charge it is taken for granted that such information  concerns  the security of the United States or collaboration with a foreign government in damage of the United States. 

The third charge is conspiracy to commit murder. It is premeditated conspiracy, an agreement to deliberately carry out the death of one or several people. This is the charge that they impute to Gerardo for the supposed crime of conspiring in the bringing down of the light planes. 

The fourth charge is the forgery of documents or to make false declarations in the face of government authorities to obtain documents. 

And the last charge is more formal than the other ones—being a  foreign agent. It involves acting as a foreign government’s agent without being a diplomat nor  communicating it to the Attorney General of The United States. According to  the  American Penal Code, being a foreign agent is not the crime, but being a foreign agent without being identified.

ACCUSATION

The first accusation  presented by the office consisted of only 9 pages, where  there are barely references to facts, and where adjectives and epithets prevail. It was a maneuver to earn time until a second accusation was presented, in May, 1999, eight months after their arrest. It was then when the charge of conspiracy to assassinate was presented. It was  based on the supposed relationship of one of the accused, Gerardo, in the bringing down of the light planes that violated the Cuban air space in February, 1996. 

This accusation  had been a main topic of the terrorist Mafia and of the scandalous and unceasing campaigns of the Press of Miami. That second accusation had  40 pages, with charges to open the process, this is a more documented proposal, with the intention of characterizing the supposed actions that they had made, but it had the taste of the charge that is  “cooked” to slow fire for 8 months to please the enemies of Cuba. It unquestionably proves that we are in presence of a political, clearly faked and manipulated trial. 

There are, in summary, five charges: The first one, the conspiracy consists of an agreement to commit crime against the United States or to deceive that country. 

The second charge is that of espionage, that is to say, to gather information and to transmit it. But, in that charge it is taken for granted that such information  concerns  the security of the United States or collaboration with a foreign government in damage of the United States. 

The third charge is conspiracy to commit murder. It is premeditated conspiracy, an agreement to deliberately carry out the death of one or several people. This is the charge that they impute to Gerardo for the supposed crime of conspiring in the bringing down of the light planes. 

The fourth charge is the forgery of documents or to make false declarations in the face of government authorities to obtain documents. 

And the last charge is more formal than the other ones—being a  foreign agent. It involves acting as a foreign government’s agent without being a diplomat nor  communicating it to the Attorney General of The United States. According to  the  American Penal Code,being a foreign agent is not the crime, but being a foreign agent without being identified.

THE SANCTION 

On December 18, 2001, Fernando González was sentenced  to 19 years of jail, on the charge of endangering the security of the United States, but his mission was to watch over a man of Cuban origin, Orlando Bosh, a terrorist accused and registered as  by the  American authorities.  

On December 14, 2001 a federal court in Florida condemned Rene Gonzalez  to 15 years in jail. He had been accused of endangering the national security of the United States. 

That week the same judge, Joan Lenard, imposed condemnations to life imprisonments to Gerardo Hernández and Ramón Labañino, inculpated of trying to penetrate American military facilities and of infiltrating in anti-Cuban groups based in the city of Miami. 

Antonio Guerrero also received  a life imprisonment sentence and two other additional  ones of five years of reclusion each, and René González, another of the five  Cubans imprisoned in United States, accused of putting in danger the national security of this country,  was sentenced to 10 years because, according to the Office, he didn’t register as an agent of a foreign power in the United States, and to five more for conspiracy to spy. 

The Cuban Government sustains that those five people only gathered information to avoid terrorist acts coming from the  American territory.

Cuba sustains that these sentence hearings were manipulated and influenced by the extreme Cuban-American right. This process was “faked, misinformed and made under colossal pressure.” 

THE PRISON

Fernando González serves his 19 year-old condemnation in a prison of Minnesota, far from the rest of his comrades, as if physical distance can destroy the union among people whose fundamental bond is their ideas and common patriotism. 

The five condemned Cuban youths in Miami were transferred first, under severe custody, to prisons of Atlanta and Oklahoma, and from there they were taken to their definitive penitentiary centers in five different and distant states. 

“Tightly handcuffed, uncovered in the cold weather, thirsty and hungry during the transfer and later subjected to the harsh conditions in the hole (isolation cells), our five heroes remain with high morals and intact honor.   

On June 23, 2001,  President Fidel Castro assured that those five Cubans imprisoned in United States are political prisoners.

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