The Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) announced on Friday in this capital that the 6th International Colloquium for the Release of the Five Cuban Heroes and against Terrorism will be held from November 18th through the 21st.

At the ICAP, Basilio Gutierrez, vice-president of that organization, told the press that, this year, the meeting, which will have the eastern Cuban city of Holguin as its venue, will bring together 335 delegates from 56 nations.

The colloquium is a meeting of the activists that have contributed to build the great building the international campaign for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists is today, pointed out Gutierrez.

He specified that this year the visit of the First Brigade of Struggle against Media Terrorism will coincide with the Colloquium, aimed at channeling the work of support for the island into the struggle against anti-Cuban campaigns. He added that this group, made up by 70 people from the United States, Latin America and Europe, will carry out a program of activities after the end of the Colloquium.

After informing that the US delegation to the Holguin meeting will be the largest of all, he stressed that this is of great importance for the movement of solidarity for the release of The Five. We shouldn’t forget, he pointed out, that it’s precisely in the United States where The Five are incarcerated.

Although our current efforts for their release are focused on the political aspect, we have to make good use of the few legal opportunities we have left for the battle, he said in reference to the participation of jurists in the 6th Colloquium.

Among persons who have confirmed their presence in the meeting so far we find Justino Di Celmo, father of Fabio, the Italian tourist who died as a consequence of a terrorist act at the Copacabana Hotel in 1997; Gloria La Riva, coordinator in the United States of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, and other international personalities.

Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez and Antonio Guerrero, are serving unjust sentences in the United States after a biased trial held 12 years ago, for monitoring the activities of Florida-based Cuban-American terrorist organizations.

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