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letter of july to Obama

by Open-Publishing - Thursday 1 July 2010

Justice Governments USA South/Latin America

Mister President Obama
July 1st 2010
The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.

Washington DC 20500

Mister President,

I had just sent you the letter for June when we found out that an important new element had been discovered that shows that the Cuban Five (René González, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González and Antonio Guerrero), who are political prisoners in the United States for eleven years and ten months now, were misjudged. Yes indeed, during the court case concerning the members of the Avispa network in Miami, a serious business of corruption among several Florida newspaper reporters took place.

The reporters covering the case, from December of 1999 to December 2001, had been bought off by the federal government of Florida. These unscrupulous reporters had been paid to publish hateful articles and reports likely to set the public opinion against the Cubans and also against Cuba, during the court case.

The North American National Committee for the Liberation of the Cuban Five investigated during eighteen months in order to bring these facts to light. I don’t need to give you either the names of the reporters incriminated or the amounts of money they received, as this information was already transmitted by the Committee during Public Prosecutor Eric Holder’s petition, based on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

A minimum of respect for the professional code of ethics should have kept these reporters from being bought off, but the Florida government that bribed them is at least as guilty as them, if not more so.

From that moment, the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which guarantees a fair judgment before an impartial jury was flouted. During the Cuban Five court case, the jury’s opinions were influenced by these corrupted reporters’s coverage, and the verdict was thusly falsified. This, by the way, was what they were looking to do! Public opinion had been forged by intentionally falsified information, and the judges of the Atlanta Appeals Court were probably taken in also by this disinformation.

In the face of such a violation of the law, we ask you, Mister President of the United States, to do all you can so that the five Cubans (René González, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González and Antonio Guerrero), can finally benefit from true justice that they have deserved for close to twelve years. We hope to see them quickly freed, as they should have been from the beginning.

It is unthinkable that these courageous and worthy men stay locked up any longer.
Please believe, Mister President, in my most sincere humanitarian sentiments.

Jacqueline Roussie

translated by bill Peterson.

C.C.: Michelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid and his Excellency the ambassador of United States in France.