The tributes to remember the victims of terrorism started yesterday evening with a vigil at the Mount of Flags that stands in front of the United States Interests Section in Havana. Hundreds of Cuban youths participated in this vigil in remembrance of the victims of terrorism promoted against Cuba which is celebrated every October 6 in the anniversary of the bombing of a Cubana de Aviación airliner off the coasts of Barbados. Seventy-three people were killed in that sabotage that reaches its 35th anniversary today.

Relatives of the victims of Barbados, workers from the National Institute of Physical Culture and Recreation (INDER), from Cubana de Aviación and the Cuban people made a pilgrimage today to the Colon Cemetery, where the victims of that heinous attack rest. More than three decades have passed since that crime, but justice in this case has not been done. Its main author, confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, is still out and free in the streets of Miami.

Both events were also the setting for the young Cubans to denounce the unjust imprisonment of five Cuban antiterrorists in U.S. penitentiaries. They also denounced the new trick of the United States court system against one of them, Rene Gonzalez, who after serving an unjust sentence for 13 long years has been forced to stay in Miami for three more years under a supervised freedom that endangers his life.

These actions demonstrate that despite the years, Cuba has not diminished in its rejection towards the terrorists who killed those young fencing champions in the prime of their lives, nor to those who hold prisoners five of its noblest sons.

Translated by Daysi Olano

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