HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 25. The Cuban Five’s defense attorneys will request the US Supreme Court to revise the sentences of their defendants and issue a venue, other than Miami, to held a new trial.
The appeal for justice will be presented at the US Supreme Court before January 30, said one of the prisoners’ defense attorneys Richard Klugh.
The Cuban Five: Rene Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero,
Ramon Labañino and Fernando Gonzalez, have been in prison since
September 12, 1998 for infiltrating counterrevolutionary organizationsin Florida to prevent terrorist attacks against Cuba, reported Prensa Latina.
In an interview with the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, attorney Richard Klugh pointed out that the appeal will request that allof the sentences be revised, after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta refused to grant a change of venue, or recognize the misconduct of the prosecution and the improper and discriminatory jury selection in the Cubans’ trial in 2001 held in Miami.
Klugh said one of the fundamental aspects that should be revised by the court is the issue of a new venue, in accordance with US legislation and under any legal system.
“If you have a judge or jury who is likely to be influenced by local passions and pressures, what you have is a mob rule and you don’t have justice in any sense,” noted Klugh about the Miami trial.
Klugh said that in making the appeal the defense team has the assistance of lawyer Thomas Goldstein of the firm Akin Gump, who has lots of experience in cases before the Supreme Court.
viernes, 26 de diciembre de 2008
Artists donate works in greeting to the anniversary 50 of the Revolution
By: Osviel Castro Medel
The Poetic sample of the Creole rooster exhibits 50 donated pieces equally creators' number and will have a permanent space in the provincial museum of Granma, Manuel Muñoz Cedeño.
BAYAMO.—Noted artists of the plastic of Cuba, as Nelson Domínguez, Ever Fonseca, Zaida del Río, Alicia Leal, Nelson Domínguez, Diana Balboa, Agustín Villafaña, among other, participate with their works in an exhibition inaugurated here, dedicated to the anniversary 50 of the Revolution.
The sample, titled Poetic of the Creole rooster, shows 50 donated works equally creators' number and will have a permanent space inside the provincial museum of Granma, Manuel Muñoz Cedeño.
The fundamental motivation of the collection, in which dozens of paintings, drawings and three three-dimensional pieces appear, is the figure of the rooster, symbol of the traditions of the Cuban field.
Ever Fonseca who received a recognition in all the participant artists' representation in the opening of the exhibition, highlighted that the idea was conceived by the UNEAC and the CDR, those which, by means of the project The Rooster of the Revolution, seek to take to diverse places of the country the art of the Cuban cultural vanguard.
Previously several of the creators participated in the inauguration of a similar exhibition that, with other 50 works, was open permanently in the Museum of Fights Peasants, in the remote community of The Banana, in the municipality of Pylon.
This last sample was born of a convocation carried out in the Cuban capital for works of small format. At the begining it was presented in March, in the Memorial José Martí, and after an itinerant journey had like final destination The Banana, terroir of the Commandant of the Revolution Guillermo García Frias.
The Poetic sample of the Creole rooster exhibits 50 donated pieces equally creators' number and will have a permanent space in the provincial museum of Granma, Manuel Muñoz Cedeño.
BAYAMO.—Noted artists of the plastic of Cuba, as Nelson Domínguez, Ever Fonseca, Zaida del Río, Alicia Leal, Nelson Domínguez, Diana Balboa, Agustín Villafaña, among other, participate with their works in an exhibition inaugurated here, dedicated to the anniversary 50 of the Revolution.
The sample, titled Poetic of the Creole rooster, shows 50 donated works equally creators' number and will have a permanent space inside the provincial museum of Granma, Manuel Muñoz Cedeño.
The fundamental motivation of the collection, in which dozens of paintings, drawings and three three-dimensional pieces appear, is the figure of the rooster, symbol of the traditions of the Cuban field.
Ever Fonseca who received a recognition in all the participant artists' representation in the opening of the exhibition, highlighted that the idea was conceived by the UNEAC and the CDR, those which, by means of the project The Rooster of the Revolution, seek to take to diverse places of the country the art of the Cuban cultural vanguard.
Previously several of the creators participated in the inauguration of a similar exhibition that, with other 50 works, was open permanently in the Museum of Fights Peasants, in the remote community of The Banana, in the municipality of Pylon.
This last sample was born of a convocation carried out in the Cuban capital for works of small format. At the begining it was presented in March, in the Memorial José Martí, and after an itinerant journey had like final destination The Banana, terroir of the Commandant of the Revolution Guillermo García Frias.
Workers of the Transport Union greet victory of the Cuban Revolution
Camagüey, Dec 26. - Those more than nine thousand affiliated to the Union of the Transport, in the county of Camagüey, greet the anniversary 50 of the victory of the Revolution, with the execution of the payment of their finances and of the Militias of Territorial Troops (MTT), among other tasks.
The communities of the sector materialized their commitments of help to the Public Health, giving part of their stimulations in foreign currencies; surpassed the established hours of work volunteer and maintained an outstanding work in the donations of blood.
In the stage also stood out in all the tasks of recovery of the transport and of the county in general sense, after the step of the two hurricanes that damaged the economic and social infrastructure of the territory.
Maritza Herrera, General Secretary of the Union of the Transport of Camagüey, congratulated all the workers of the sector for the results that they show in this new anniversary of the Revolution and exhorted them to stay in the vanguard in the reestablishment of the difficulties caused by the nature in the county. (Pablo Cabero Viamontes)
The communities of the sector materialized their commitments of help to the Public Health, giving part of their stimulations in foreign currencies; surpassed the established hours of work volunteer and maintained an outstanding work in the donations of blood.
In the stage also stood out in all the tasks of recovery of the transport and of the county in general sense, after the step of the two hurricanes that damaged the economic and social infrastructure of the territory.
Maritza Herrera, General Secretary of the Union of the Transport of Camagüey, congratulated all the workers of the sector for the results that they show in this new anniversary of the Revolution and exhorted them to stay in the vanguard in the reestablishment of the difficulties caused by the nature in the county. (Pablo Cabero Viamontes)
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