PRESS ADVISORY
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Contact:
Ignacio Meneses 313-587-9285
Alicia Jrapko 510-219-0092
Free the Cuban Five event
on Friday night
Latin American workers meet in Tijuana
December 7, 8 and 9
Hotel Palacio Azteca
Boulevard Cuautemoc Sur,
#213 Col. Davila
Tijuana, Mexico
Irma Sehwerert, mother of René González, one of the Cuban Five wrongly
imprisoned in the United States will speak at a forum in Tijuana,
Mexico on Friday, December 7 at 6PM in the Ambar Hall of the Hotel. Ms
Sehwerert is coming directly from her homeland, Cuba.
The forum is part of a three day Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/North America
Labor Conference that will bring together union leaders from Latin
America, including also from Nicaragua, Bolivia and Colombia. Workers
and activists from the United States will have the opportunity to meet
with workers in these countries and discuss the important political
developments in Latin America and its impact on the workers in the U.S.
The event is being held in Mexico due to the hostility of the United
States government towards Cuba which prevents Cubans from visiting U.S.
territory, a fact that is exemplified by the refusal of the government
to grant visas to the relatives of the Five.
The program includes plenary sessions on Saturday from 9am to 7PM and
Sunday from 10AM to 3PM.
Speakers include Raymundo Navarro, Director of Foreign Relations of the
Cuban Confederation of Workers; Jacobo Torres, National Coordinator
Bolivarian Force of Workers in Venezuela, Pedro Montes, General
Secretary of Bolivian Workers’ Federation, Maritza del Socorro
Espinales, General Secretary Federation of University Unions and many
more leaders. They will be joined by Elvira Arellano, from La Familia
Latina Unida.
The event is sponsored by the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange, the Sindicato
Mexicano de Electricistas, the Coalición 25 de Marzo, International
Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five and other organizations.
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