Rene Gonzalez records video message to Cuban people and supporters worldwide
News from Cuba | Saturday, 22 October 2011
Recently released Mimai 5 prisoner Rene Gonzalez has recorded a message to the Cuban people and his supporters around the world from a secret location in Florida, where he is being forced to serve 3 years probation rather than be allowed to return hom to Cuba.
Find out more about Rene's case, read the English transcript and watch the film, and send a letter to President Obama aksing that he be allowed to return home below.
"These words are for my people, to whom I owed since the day I got out of jail and could not be sent because of the circumstances surrounding the need for us to have a safe trip.
It’s very difficult talking through a camera to a people who I love so much and which I feel part of, but I needed to communicate with you and say how grateful I am for everything you have done, to tell you that we have felt very accompanied by the messages, the letters from children, all the study and working groups that have sent us their messages from Cuba, the support that we’ve always had and that has fed us in these years of injustice, which are already too many.
For me this moment of happiness we share is, simply, a parenthesis in a history of abuse where an apex of justice has not been made yet. The fact that I am now out of jail only means that one avenue of abuse, which I’d been subject to, has come to a dead end. But we still have four brothers we have to rescue and we need with us, with their families; among you giving their best and not in those places where they are now, where they get up, wake up every morning, go to a dining room where they shouldn't eat, walk among people they shouldn’t walk with, and we really need to continue with the struggle to keep them going.
For me this is just a trencgh, a new place where I will keep fighting for justice to be done and for The Five to be back at your side.
I want to send a special greeting to the families of the other four brothers, who have really moved me by their joy. It’s deeply moving when you talk on the phone with a person who has a son or a husband in jail and takes my freedom as if it was the freedom of one of their own. That really moves me and commits me, and we have to keep struggling because they don’t deserve to be where they are.
To all my people, to the thousands of people who have been with us all these years around the world, through whom we have been able to break this information blockade little by little and break the silence that the big media corporations have over the case, I extend on behalf of The Five, my deepest gratitude, my commitment to continue representing you how you deserve, which is ultimately what we The Five are doing, because we’re not only five, we are a whole people that has stood for 50 years. And thanks to that we are still standing, because we are inspired by you, because we know that we represent you and will never fail you and will always be at the level that you deserve.
A hug for everyone.
The Five love you from wherever we are"
