Cuban agent who renounced U.S. citizenship now just a 'Cuban patriot'
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/sns-rt-cuba-usaagent-pix-tvl2n0dr3d1-20130510,0,213812,full.story
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A Cuban agent who served 13 years
behind bars in the United States for his role in an espionage
ring showed off a certificate renouncing his U.S. citizenship on
Friday and said he was now just a "Cuban patriot."
For Rene Gonzalez, who was born in Chicago but grew up in
Cuba and held dual U.S.-Cuban citizenship, the certificate meant
he was the first of what the Cuban government calls the "Five
Heroes" to complete his sentence and return to the island in a
case that has plagued U.S.-Cuban relations since the 1990s.
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Gonzalez, well spoken in both Spanish and English, said in
his undercover work with exiles in Miami he had found that most
were "not bad people," but that "some have a philosophy of
confrontation between Cuba and the United States that is very
dangerous."
CREATING CONFLICT
"There are some people, some of them members of Congress,
that will not rest until they create conflict between Cuba and
the United States. What I would say to those people is that what
they're looking for is a tragedy," he said.
"The demographics in Miami are changing," Gonzalez said. "I
hope that some day the philosophy of confrontation, of
provocation, of terrorism against Cuba and searching for war
between Cuba and the United States will be a thing of the past."
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