The Cuban Five are Innocent, affirms Leonard Weinglass

The US lawyer said that after the five Cubans infiltrated a Florida-based terrorist network, they reveal the hypocrisy of George W. Bush, who protects such criminals in the United States, PL news reported.

During an interview with Chile’s Punto Final magazine, Weinglass, who visited the South American country last September, affirmed the innocence of Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino and Fernando Gonzalez, known as the Cuban Five, who were given unfair sentences in different high security US jails.

After explaining about the whole judicial process, which started with an unfair and biased trial in the US city of Miami, Weinglass said he will request the revision of the case by the US Supreme Court next December.

In response to a question by Punto Final about the upcoming change of government in the United States, Weinglass said that the Chilean people know very well that the stepping down of a president from power does not mean the end of all evils, because he has left his imprint for continuity.

It has been very encouraging to see that the left is alive in Chile, at that it is the center of the struggle against the imprint left by Augusto Pinochet, on the basis of the legacy of President Salvador Allende, said the US lawyer.