Write Washington today! Allow family visits for the Cuban Five!!
National Committee To Free The Cuban Five Bulletin
As the 20th wedding anniversary of Adriana Pérez and Gerardo
Hernández on July 15 nears...
Urge Washington to grant U.S. entry visas to Adriana, and to Olga
Salanueva, wife of René González
Dear Friends of the Cuban Five:
For more than ten years, Adriana and Gerardo have not been able to see each
other. Olga and René have also been denied the right to family visits,
since August 2000.
This is due to the cruel and unjustified refusal by the U.S. government to
grant entry visas to the wives of two of the Cuban Five.
It is a basic human and constitutional right for spouses and their children
to be together, but the U.S. government has blatantly violated those rights.
Other family members of the Cuban Five have been forced to wait as long as 26
months before being allowed to enter the United States to see their loved
ones.
Take Action Today!
Click Below to Send a Letter!
Please take a moment to help out. As part of the worldwide campaign for the
wives' visas, The National Committee to Free the Cuban Five has developed
an on-line feature, so you can easily send a letter from anywhere in the world,
to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
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letter
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message from René
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Free the Cuban Five Now!
Allow the families' visits!
Grant entry visas to
Adriana Pérez and Olga Salanueva!
Posted in antiterroristas.cu
American personalities express their opinion on humanitarian visas for Olga
and Adriana
Gayle McLaughlin, Mayor of Richmond , California
"I have urged and will continue to urge the State Department to issue
humanitarian visas for Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva to visit their husbands
Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez respectively in US prisons. There is no
justifiable reason to deny these families the right to visitation and it is a
violation of their basic human rights to do so. "
Gayle McLaughlin
Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired) Lawrence Wilkerson
If there is any kindness in anyone in the current U.S. leadership, indeed,
if there is any recognition of the dignity of the individual human being, then
there must be a recognition that these women, Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva,
should be allowed to visit their husbands.
This is simple human kindness. It is difficult for me to believe that there
is no such kindness left in America 's leadership. After all, why are we
frightened of two women who want to see their husbands after a decade of
separation?
Lawrence Wilkerson
HAVANA, Cuba , July 16 (acn) The International Committee of Solidarity with
five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in the United States
urged on Tuesday the US State Department to grant visas to Adriana Perez and
Olga Salanueva, wives of Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez – two of the
Cuban Five, as these five men are internationally known.
During a press conference in Havana , Graciela Ramirez , President of the
Committee, denounced that the US Government obstructs the family visits of the
Cuban Five, in a clear violation of US and international laws, which establish
this kind of visits on a monthly basis.
Olga and Adriana have been denied visas on eight occasions and the last time
this happened was last September 12, 2007, nine years after the imprisonment of
Gerardo, Rene, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino and Fernando
Gonzalez, who had infiltrated anti-Cuba extremist groups in South Florida that
were organizing and carrying out terrorist actions against Cuba.
As part of an ongoing international campaign for the release of the Cuban
Five, an International Commission for the Right to Family Visits is sending
cards with the pictures of these two couples to US Secretary of State
Condoleeza Rice so that both women are granted visas to visit their
husbands.
The Commission is comprised of over 100 personalities from 27 countries,
including Nobel laureates such as Rigoberta Menchu and Adolfo Perez Esquivel as
well as France 's former First Lady Danielle Mitterrand.
This international campaign includes actions in 15 cities of 12 American
states and in countries such as Germany , Peru , Italy and Switzerland , among
others.
