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Paraguayan solidarity associations demanded on Sunday that the U.S. government grant a permit to Cuban antiterrorist fighter Rene Gonzalez to travel to Cuba. The demand echoes a request from Gonzalez, who is on supervised release after serving 13 years in prison, to visit his seriously-ill brother.»

The book  “Nuestro deber es luchar” (Our Duty Is to Fight), “a revised and expanded transcription of Fidel Castro’s dialogue with intellectuals from the Americas, Europe, and Africa, which took place last February in Havana on the occasion of the annual International Book Fair held in the Cuban capital” will be simultaneously launched next week in several cities around the »

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navy Pillay met in Geneva with Adriana Perez, the wife of Gerardo Hernandez, one of the five Cuban antiterrorists “internationally known as the Cuban Five” who were arrested and condemned in the United States more than a decade ago.»

A moving letter was sent by Rene Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban heroes, to his brother Roberto, who continues in critical condition in Havana, suffering with cancer. Up next, we bring you the English version of this letter, published by the www.freethefive.org web site:»

When Olga Salanueva was asked about how she and Rene Gonzalez manage to make their love survive, she answered that there is no formula. She said that their relation, like in the case of the rest of the Five, is based on love. And, as it is said, love can do anything.»

The book “Fidel Castro in the face of Natural Disasters. Thinking and Action” by researcher Luis Enrique Ramos Guadalupe was launched on Tuesday at the ongoing  21st Havana International Book Fair. The book deals with Fidel´s activity during the passage on the island of different hurricanes since the 1960s.»

The leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro reiterated the need to continue struggling and maintain the population informed, in a meeting with intellectuals of the Network in Defense of Humanity, released by local press on Saturday.»

Lawyer Phillip Horowitz warned that the stay under “supervised release” in the United States of Rene Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly held in that northern country, is a risk for his security.»

The head of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, Kiril Vajromeev, has expressed interest to join the cause for the liberation of the five Cuban prisoners held in the United States since 1998.»

A special declaration for the release of the Cuban antiterrorists who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States was approved during the 11th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA) that took place over the weekend in Caracas, Venezuela.»