Miami 5 send message of Hope for 2012
News from Cuba | Saturday, 31 December 2011
New Year’s messages from the Miami Five: Fernando González Llort, Ramón Labañino Salazar, Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez, René González Sehwerert and Gerardo Hernández Nordelo
Dear friends:
I wish to convey to all of you my most sincere appreciation for another year of company in solidarity with this struggle for truth and justice.
The year which will soon end is yet another year of significant efforts of all those who, in one way or another, contribute to the objective of making the freedom of the Cuban Five a reality.
We are aware of the activities and events that all of you organize everywhere in the world as part of the campaign for our freedom. To each one of you, in each place on the planet where you show the universal value of human solidarity, with the closing of the year 2011, receive my gratitude and my certainty that we will achieve victory.
May you have a happy and fruitful New Year, and that 2012 be another year of gains and victories for the causes that we defend.
Happy 2012!
We shall overcome!
Fernando Gonzalez Llort
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Dear sisters and brothers,
This year 2011 is reaching an end, and we want to take this special time to send you all our love, with warmness and the gratitude of the Five, for all that you give every day for the cause of Cuba; that is our cause.
You are our greatest virtue, our strength and the main reason we can maintain our optimism that someday the big miracle of our freedom will happen and we will all celebrate together in victory.
With those of you who have always been there along our side for these 13 years of unjust imprisonment, we are fulfilling the prophecy that all work of love overcomes the adversity and in the end that will prove to be the case.
We wish you happy holidays, a 2012 with peace, love, health and victories.
The love of the Five is with you every second of the year and of life!
On behalf of our five families, of the Cuban people, and from each one of us, we wish you
HAPPY 2012!!!!!!!
Ramón Labañino
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Dear friends,
The second half of December has started. I decided to share with you this message that I have sent to many friends, answering their words of solidarity and encouragement.
Rene is free, but it is a freedom with many conditions; it is a freedom where he is in constant physical danger; it is a freedom without being able to have Olguita and his daughters next to him; it is a freedom without freedom.
Gerardo continues under the terrible conditions of a penitentiary, something I know very well. His strength remains high against the injustice of the double life sentence despite not being able to receive visits from Adriana.
Our Habeas Corpus process is reaching its end. Perhaps in the beginning of next year we will receive an answer. I am wondering what Judge Lenard's response will be?
It gives us great strength to hear about the participation of many friends from all over the world who attended the Seventh Colloquium for our freedom in Holguin. Once again the success of this yearly event shows that the struggle for our cause is growing.
These are some of the things that 2011 ends with, in the middle of a world that cannot take it anymore and is dying of pain. It is a world that is asking us to run to help it in order to save humanity from so much selfishness; a world that is taking us, as Fidel affirmed, "in a relentless pace, towards a definitive and total catastrophe.”
For me, the recent visit of my two sons has been the most wonderful thing that has happened to me in these13 years of imprisonment.
With great thanks for your support, on behalf of the 5, I wish you a Happy New Year 2012!
Peace, health, happiness and success in your goals.
We are always optimistic, and reiterate: We shall overcome!
Five embraces.
Antonio Guerrero Rodriguez
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Dear friends:
As another end of the year approaches with all the festivities and the symbolism that for each of us, from its place on our diversity, hold these days, the family spirit is renovated and our best wishes point to the immediate future; projecting our aspirations, dreams, realities and affections.
For the five of us, separated from our families and from our people for more than 13 years, the recurrent wish of seeing at last this injustice repaired will be again our greatest hope. All of you, who have being with us throughout all these years on an endless struggle to accomplish something as simple as the application of the laws, have shown to be sensible enough so as to feel on your own flesh the laceration inflicted by the denial of such an elemental aspiration on both us and on our loved ones; by giving space on your hearts to this battle that for enduring would have already made many people give up. For that perseverance we thank you and reiterate to all of you the assurance of our eternal gratitude.
A very important year is coming. It is probably a decisive one, when the last legal skirmish of this long and tortuous process can be elucidated. Such as it has been admitted by the prosecutors themselves, the weight of the solidarity is of no small effect, and the knowledge that we still count on your efforts gives us encouragement and sustenance. We have no doubt that we all will continue together on this struggle until we can be victorious, and that it will be thanks to the actions of people like you that in the end the reunification of our families will be achieved.
It is because of that reciprocal link that the happiness of yours is also our happiness, that we share your projects, that we enjoy your successes and that together we all project the optimism and the perseverance that make us one. With that spirit of fraternity and shared feelings we wish you the best New Year and lots of success on every one of your aspirations, which are also ours.
Wishing you a happy and prosperous 2012.
With affection,
Rene Gonzalez Sehwerert
