Carlos Muñiz Varela and his son Carlitos. (Foto: Juventud Rebelde)

Carlos Muñiz Pérez, son of a Cuban young man killed 31 years ago in Puerto Rico by the terrorist organization Omega 7, said Thursday that there is still a need of justice in the case of the Cuban five political prisoners in U.S.

The events and meetings being held in all continents in favor of these pacifists is a necessity, because now more than ever support is essential, told the son of  Carlos Muñiz Varela to AIN who was a victim of anti-Cuban groups settled in Miami.

Muñiz Perez said Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, Antonio Guerrero and René González have been in U.S. prisons for 12 years for struggling against  terrorism and avoiding actions like the one done against his father.

The young architect recalled that Cuba has the right to defend herself on a peaceful manner, as it always has done in its own right,  for the fact of being a victim of countless cowardly acts that have killed thousands of its sons and daughters.

Thirty one years have gone by and there is still no justice regarding my father´s case, something we must never accept to happen again as in the case of the Five, so the  struggle for their freedom must conclude when  they reunite with their family in Cuba, he said.

Muñiz Perez is in the eastern city of Holguin, 770 kilometers from Havana, attending the Sixth International Symposium for the liberation of The Five.

On April 28th , 1979, two 45 caliber bullets pierced Carlos Muñiz Varela´s skull and neck, who died some hours later at a hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

This criminal action took place when the car he was driving was shot nine times, as it moved through the urbanization of San Ramon, the municipality of Guaynabo, near San Juan.

Muñiz Varela, 26, was a member of the Antonio Maceo Brigade National Committee and headed the travel agency Viajes Varadero.

He founded Areíto magazine in 1974 and  was also a member of the first Brigade contingent and a delegate to the Eleventh World Festival of Youth and Students.

Translated by: Daysi Olano

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