To the conscience of the world and the U.S. people:
To the conscience of the world and the U.S. people:
FIFTEEN years ago today, September 12, 1998, the brutality of five simultaneous
arrests burst into our homes to initiate one of the most shameful chapters of
U.S. legal history: the trial of those of us today known as The Five.
The arrest and trial of The Five will remain in history as one of the most
ignominious and vile episodes of relations between the United States and Cuba.
A few months earlier, after the mediation of the Nobel Literature Prize winner
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, the doors had been opened to significant cooperation
between the two countries in the fight against terrorism. In June of that year,
an FBI delegation visited Cuba and after receiving copious information on
anti-Cuban terrorist activities organized with impunity in Miami, promised their
Cuban counterparts that they would take action.
In a low blow, instead of arresting the terrorists, the William Clinton
administration arrested and brought before its courts those of us who were
gathering information to avert the damage which these terrorists were inflicting
on the Cuba population. The U.S. legal system was openly utilized as a means of
protecting the terrorists and, in an atmosphere of lynching, we were subjected
to a rigged trial. Cruel conditions of confinement were utilized to break us and
to prevent us from preparing an adequate defense. Lies took over the courtroom.
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