HAVANA, Cuba, Aug
20 (ACN)
The defense attorney of Gerardo Hernandez, one of the five
anti-terrorist fighters held in the US since 1998, disclosed illegalities
committed by the US administration during the 2001 Miami trial that gave the
five Cubans unfair and extremely long sentences.
In a press
conference via telephone, Attorney Martin Garbus revealed a long list of
US-based journalists who were paid to launch a hostile campaign against the five
defendants during the trial, PL news agency reported.
The denunciation is
part of actions aimed at putting an end to the unfair incarceration of the five
Cuban antiterrorists, based on Washington’s anti-constitutional behavior to have
the men jailed.
The most severe
sentence was given to Gerardo Hernandez who is meeting two life terms plus
fifteen years.
Known as the Cuban
Five, Hernandez and his compatriots, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando
Gonzalez and Ramon Labanino, were in US territory monitoring the activities of
Florida-based terrorist groups. They were arrested in 1998 and submitted to a
biased Miami trial in 2001.
According to
attorney Garbus, the US government paid journalists to flood the Miami community
with propaganda through the local media against the Five, between 1998 and 2001.
The paid journalists published their articles in outlets like El Nuevo Herald,
The Miami Herald, Diario de Las Americas, Radio and TV Marti and WAQI Radio
Mambi, among others, who played the role of paid and secret agents.
The El Nuevo Herald
published 806 negative articles in just 194 days, while the Miami Herald posted
another 305 similar works in the same period of time, said the
attorney.
Garbus revealed a
list of the paid journalists, which includes names such as Pablo Alfonso,
Humberto Cortina, Julio Estorino, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Olance Nogueras,
Enrique Encinosa, Ariel Remos, Luis Aguilar, Wilfredo Cancio, Helen Ferre,
Caridad Roque, Enrique Patterson and Alberto Muller.
Some of the
aforementioned have participated in violent actions and subversive activities
against Cuba and have been linked to the CIA, like Humberto Cortina, who
participated in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion; Alberto Muller, who was in charge
of organizing armed gangs; Julio Estorino, Carlos Alberto Montaner and Enrique
Encinosa, who were part of violent groups that acted against the
island.
The payment offered
by the US Government ranked between 3 000 to dozens of thousands of dollars,
said the lawyer. But despite these elements, the Washington insists in hiding
the proofs in an effort to prevent the disclosure of the names of all the paid
reporters and the amount of money dedicated to the propaganda activity.
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