Sustained Injustice Amplifies Reasons for Innocence
By Roberto Perez Betancourt

The statements made by Fernando Gonzalez and Antonio Guerrero before those that tried and unjustly sentenced them, amplifies the validity of their content by the sustained injustices committed against them for almost ten years.

Gonzalez and Guerrero, together with Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino and Rene Gonzalez are the five Cuban anti terrorist fighters that, since September 1998, have been in US prisons unjustly accused and punished by Washington. The Cuban Five were gathering information on right wing anti Cuban terrorist organizations that freely operate from southern Florida with the objective of alerting the island against their crimes. This reality was ignored at the time, and continues to be so for the last 9 years and successive US administrations, in particular the W. Bush government determined to destroy the Revolution and once again annex the island.

On December 18th and 27th of 2001, Fernando and Tony, made their statements before the judges.  Six years later, the content of the evidence that they had on the real significance of their work in Miami has more relevance before the double morals maintained by W. Bush in its so called anti terrorist crusade. The truth exposed by Fernando was enough at the time to prove his arguments:  "I thought that the Prosecution would come to the court to request a sentence of one year probation. After all, that is the same offered by the prosecution to Mr. Frometa (terrorist resident of Miami) when he purchased a Stinger missile, C 4 explosives, grenades and other weapons from a government

under cover agent".

"It does not matter that Mr Frometa had confessed, to the under cover agent himself, his terrorist intentions and the use he would have for those materials". "I thought over later and I realized that to receive that same treatment on behalf of the prosecution towards me was an illusion, I was a Cuban, from the island and that implies that accusing me would bring into play things like ignorance of what Cuba is really like, the hate and the irrationality against my country, stimulated by an extremist sector that controls what is said about Cuba and silencing any other more rational opinion.?

With the serenity of knowing the truth, Antonio Guerrero unmasked the true criminals during his statement:

"Cuba, my small country has been attacked and slandered for decade after decade, by a cruel, inhuman and absurd policy. A true war, ferocious and that is open to terrorism, forerunner of horror; sabotage, generator of ruins; assassinations; pain, most profound pain and death."

"Not just the documents and data of the Cuban government have uncovered this aggression, but also the US government's secret documents themselves, which have been declassified."

After recalling that the hostile actions have inflicted over 3,400 deaths and over 2,000 people have suffered total or partial physical injury as well uncountable material damage to the economy, Antonio asked: "Why so much hate against the Cuban people? Because they have chosen their own path? Because its people want socialism? Because they eliminated rich land owners and eradicated illiteracy? Because they gave free education and medical assistance to its people?

Because children wake up in a free nation?"

Six years after formulating these questions, the US government still has not found the answers.

In reality these questions can be used as a guide to US journalists and others that are truly interested in finding the reasons for innocence.

Taken from ACN