“We’re not asking for authorization to visit the United States as tourists, or to work there—much less to live there. We just want to see our husbands,” said Adriana Pérez (right), speaking at a November 20 press conference in Havana alongside Olga Salanueva (left). The two women, married to imprisoned Cuban revolutionaries Gerardo Hernández and René González, respectively, have been denied visas four times to enter the U.S. and visit their husbands. The two men are serving sentences in U.S. prisons of double life and 15 years, respectively, on frame-up charges that include conspiracy to commit espionage. Three others—Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, and Ramón Labañino—were convicted along with them. The Cuban Five, as they are known, were collecting information on groups with long records of violent attacks against Cuba operating from U.S. soil with Washington’s complicity when federal agents arrested them in 1998. The five Cuban militants are in the process of appealing their sentences and convictions. Visit www.themilitant.com or www.freethefive.org to find out more about the fight to win their freedom.
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