[NYTr] Alarcon Closes Meeting of Solidarity with Havana

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Alarcon Closes Meeting of Solidarity with Havana

Havana, Nov 23 (acn) The president of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo 
Alarcon, closed on Thursday evening the 14th Meeting of Solidarity with 
the Municipalities of Havana that took place for three days at the 
Convention Center in the Cuban capital.

Alarcon thanked participants for their solidarity and the love they 
have showed for Cuba for many years during which the island has been 
submitted to the criminal US financial, trade and economic blockade.

"The Empire has not been able to overthrow the revolutionary government 
but it has caused a lot of suffering to the Cuban people for almost 
half a century. However, Cuba resists and advances," said the 
legislative leader.

He also made reference to a letter sent by participants in the event to 
the US Congress dealing with three crucial topics: the case of 
international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles; the case of the five 
Cuban anti-terrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned in the 
United States; and the US blockade of the island.

Regarding Posada Carriles, Alarcon explained Washington's maneuvers not 
to judge him as a terrorist - even though he has confessed that he 
committed this kind of crimes in the past - but to try him for 
migratory fraud.

"Today he is free while the five innocent Cuban heroes received harsh 
sentences in spite of the fact that they were neither spying nor using 
violence nor carrying weapons in Miami to defend Cuba from terrorist 
actions organized and carried out from South Florida," Alarcon stressed.

"Posada, the most infamous terrorist of the hemisphere, is free. The 
Five, who have done no evil to anyone and who are constantly denied 
their rights, have been in prison for almost ten years," he added.

"The main obstacle is that the American people ignore the arguments 
included in this letter to the US Congress and, as it has always 
happened, on this occasion the mainstream media will likely remain 
silent again," the Cuban official noted.

Also present during the closing session of the event were Cuban Vice 
President Jose Ramon Fernandez; Armando Cuellar, president of the 
provincial government in Havana; and Paulino Rivero, president of the 
central government of the Canary Islands.