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THE
Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982
Nobel Literature Prize, has added his voice to calls for the
immediate release of the five Cuban anti-terrorists fighters
imprisoned in the United States for more than nine years.
Along with
García Márquez and José Manuel Ramos Horta, Nobel Peace
Prize winner and president of East Timor, who recently
joined the group, six distinguished figures have signed the
call launched October 12 by the Network of Networks in
Defense of Humanity, reported Prensa Latina.
The
document calls for the liberation of Gerardo Hernández,
Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René
González, sentenced to long and unjust sentences by a rigged
trial in the city of Miami.
In
addition to the Colombian writer and Ramos Horta, other
Nobel Prize winners who signed the document include Nadine
Gordimer and Wole Soyinka (Literature), Zhores Alfiorov
(Physics) and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (Peace).
Since its
initiation, the call – now signed by some 3,300
international figures, organizations and institutions – has
generated, without pause, a wave of adherents.
Among the
countries most represented are the United States, Spain,
Argentina, Brazil, France and other Latin American nations.
Translated by Granma International
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