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Miami: Removal of Cuban Five Billboard, an Act of Intolerance |
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Friday, 13 April 2012 08:50
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 The director of the Areito Digital magazine, Andres Gomez, harshly criticised the recent removal of a billboard claiming the release of five Cuban anti-terrorism fighters, that had been recently placed in a centrally located street of Miami, and said it was an act of savagery and intolerance.
The political journalist and activist commented on the removal of the billboard -placed at the initiative of the Alianza Martiana organization and Radio Miami-, following threats by anti-Cuba hardline groups to the company owner of the advertisement space, over the board placed at 17th Ave and First St, Southwest, Prensa Latina reported.
The board displayed a message calling for the freedom of Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Gerardo Hernandez, who were arrested in 1998 in Miami and sentenced in 2001, to terms ranging from 15 years to two life sentences plus 15 years, for having fought terrorism.
Until when will a negligible minority dictate and impose just because, threatening with violence, their absurd criteria to a whole community of more than two million people?, Gomez asked.
The Cuban-born editorialist based in Florida, U.S., stressed that as long as they continue to do so, he and those who oppose the ideas, methods and purposes of terrorists and their allies in the politics and the media, will continue working under such terrible circumstances as they have been doing over the past 35 years.
Placing the billboard was the second public announcement sponsored by Radio Miami and Alianza Martiana, which had previously published ads for the freedom of the Cuban Five in the El Nuevo Herald and The Miami Herald newspapers.
Gomez said the Miami-based anti-Cuba forces were busy leading an unprecedented exercise of intolerance and criticism against manager Oswaldo Guillen manager of Miami's Marlins baseball team, for having told Time Magazine he loved and respected Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Guillen was brought to his knees and was forced to crawl before those people to be able to preserve his job and his $10-million contract for four years. He was given a five-game suspension and the $100,000 he would have been paid were donated to Cuban-America extreme-right organizations demanding Marlins owners to oust the manager. (acn)
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