Che Guevara's daughter campaigns for Cuban 5

On the 11th anniversary of the detention of the Cuban Five in the United States, Dr. Aleida Guevara says that they are national heroes.

The five Cubans, Antonio Guerrero, Raman Labaino, Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez, and Rene Gonzalez were arrested in Miami in 1998 and are now entering their 12th year of incarceration.

The US charged them with espionage, but the men claim they were only trying to infiltrate anti-Cuba terrorist groups based in Miami.

Three of the Cuban Five were recently back in Miami District Court for resentencing.

On October 13, a Federal judge in Miami approved a lighter sentence for one of the five Cubans, Antonio Guerrero, commuting his life sentence to 262 months, or almost 22 years, in prison.

After arriving in South Africa on Saturday to campaign for the release of the Cuban Five, Dr. Aleida Guevara, the daughter of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara, said that the Cuban Five are national heroes.

In an interview with the Press TV correspondent in Pretoria, South Africa, Guevara said that the Cuban Five were trained to defend Cuba against terrorists coming from the United States and that is why the US government detained them.

As ties between the US and Cuba are getting closer, Dr. Guevara is working to obtain the release of the Cuban Five.

In an interview with Radio Havana on October 13, Professor Noam Chomsky said, "They [the Cuban Five] weren't criminals. They were heroes."

He added, "The only way to remedy the injustice is to withdraw the charges completely."

The case of the Cuban Five has strained relations between the United States and Cuba for more than a decade

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[yorubablk3]

No,Omindless is more than just 'fucking stupid'..this poster,not only being politically & historically 'incorrect' & obviously 'right wing' but also displays a very uncomfortable interest in man to man sex...

[thaneir]

you are so fucking stupid.....so stupid...i feel sorry for you really....mindless...

[Omindless1]

Maybe that's because che was a butcher. pretty appropriate. He was a murderer, a pawn of communist Russia, like his boyfriend, fidel...Essentially, now, he's just a dead guy on rich white kids' t-shirts. I hope those five idiots enjoy life in prison. Maybe they can draw che's picture on their prison butt buddies' backs to make them more appealing to them.

[FardaRoshanAst]

iranian people hate their government. you can see the revolution in iran. but mullahs dictatorship is trying to use anything they can just to get some credit for themselves. it is shame that Che name is used by the butcher of iranian socialists.