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CUBAN 5 Support Statement for PRESIDENT ZELAYA
Cuban Five support statement for Zelaya
Posted by: "Walter Lippmann" walterlx@earthlink.net walterlx
Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:08 pm (PDT)


"We Identify with His Dignified Position"

Message of support to Zelaya from René González on behalf of the Five

July 1, 2009
Reprinted from Daily Granma

http://www.freethefive.org/updates/CubanMedia/CMHonduras70109.htm

DEAR compañero Manuel Zelaya, the sole and dignified constitutional president of Honduras:

Profound indignation has shaken our cells in the face of the brutal coup d'état in your homeland, reminiscent of a past that is still fresh in the historic memory of Central America.

It would appear that the sinister failed plot in Caracas and then successfully applied in Haiti is now seeking, with its dress rehearsal in Middle America, to reverse the inevitable historic tendency of our peoples toward overcoming their neocolonial conspiracies. Today it is the turn of the Honduran people, under your dignified leadership and in an America that is no longer the same, to take up the honorable challenge of permanently interring fascism, as an instrument of the outdated reactionary oligarchies for whom homeland is synonymous with miserable privileges.

Like you, we know from first-hand experience the brutality of being awoken by armed guards, being taken half-dressed from our homes, the ignoble utilization of judicial power to justify the crime, the employment of threats to demand renunciation, and of the starkest use of lies for perverse aims.

We also know of the joy inspired by the opportune combative expression of a daughter, the unconditional commitment of the family, or the clamor of universal solidarity, or the incomparable love of an entire people.

Identifying with your dignified position, a reflection of your moral superiority over the usurpers, we extend to you, from the empire's prisons which, in the last 10 years, have never been able to incarcerate our dignity as revolutionary Cubans, the expressions of our unconditional support and the certainty that your people, armed with their own decency and their love of justice, will also overcome.

A strong embrace from the Five.

Gerardo, Ramón, Antonio, Fernando and René

June 28, 2009.

28 de junio de 2009
Tomado de Prensa Latina

Querido compañero Manuel Zelaya, único y digno presidente constitucional de Honduras:

Con profunda indignación se han estremecido nuestras cinco celdas ante la brutal acción golpista en su patria, reminiscente de un pasado aún fresco en la memoria histórica centroamericana.

Pareciera que el siniestro esquema fracasado en Caracas y aplicado luego con éxito en Haití busca ahora, con su ensayo en Mesoamérica, revertir la inevitable tendencia histórica de nuestros pueblos hacia la superación de sus esquemas neocoloniales. Hoy toca al pueblo de Honduras, bajo su digna conducción y en una América que ya no es la misma, el honroso reto de sepultar para siempre al gorilismo, como instrumento de trasnochadas oligarquías reaccionarias para las que patria es sinónimo de mezquinos privilegios.

Como usted, conocemos por experiencia propia de la brutalidad del despertar bajo asalto armado, de la extracción a medio vestir de nuestros hogares, de la mezquindad de usar el poder judicial para justificar el crimen, del empleo de la amenaza para exigir la claudicación, y del más descarnado uso de la mentira en función de perversos fines.

Conocemos también del ánimo que infunden la oportuna expresión combativa de una hija, o la incondicional adhesión de la familia, o el clamor de la solidaridad universal, o el cariño incomparable de todo un pueblo.

Identificados con su postura digna, reflejo de su superioridad moral sobre los usurpadores, le extendemos, desde las prisiones imperiales que en 10 años no han podido encerrar nunca nuestra dignidad de revolucionarios cubanos, las expresiones de nuestro incondicional apoyo y la seguridad de que su pueblo, armado de su decencia y de su amor a la justicia, también vencerá.

Un fuerte abrazo de los Cinco.

Gerardo, Ramón, Antonio, Fernando y René
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