Europeans Ratify Solidarity with Cuba

Zeta Katamperi, a member of the executive council of the Cuba-Greece
Solidarity and Friendship Association, spoke to ACN and highlighted the
international significance of socialism on the Caribbean island as a
guide for other peoples.

Katamperi explained that their presence in Cuba also aims at expressing
their rejection of the financial, commercial and economic blockade
imposed on the island by many US administrations for almost 50 years
and which has cost the Cuban people more than 82 billion dollars and
has been repeatedly condemned by the UN General Assembly.

For his part, Domenico Toscano, of the Cuba-Italy Friendship
Association in Fosacesia, demanded the release of five Cuban
anti-terrorist fighters who have been unjustly imprisoned in the United
States for almost nine years.

Toscano noted that Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando
Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino and Rene Gonzalez, internationally known as
the Cuban Five, were detained in 1998 for having infiltrating
right-wing anti-Cuba organization based in Florida, which have
organized numerous terrorist actions against the island over the last
45 years causing death and huge material damage.

Meanwhile, Dean Weston, a British member of the group and coordinator
of the Executive Board of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign in London,
announced that, on October 8th, they would participate in a vigil in
front of the US embassy in the British capital to express their support
of Cuba.

During their stay in Cuba that will conclude on September 22nd, the
visitors will carry out voluntary work in farms and will exchange
experiences with Cuban youth, workers and leaders of political and
grass-root organizations. They will also visit places of cultural,
historic and economic interest.

Also on Monday, the Greek members of the European solidarity brigade
sent a replica of the Parthenon to Cuban President Fidel Castro as an
expression of their admiration for the Cuban people and the leadership
of Fidel Castro.

The Parthenon (in Greek it means virgin - one of the adjectives that
described Athens’ patron goddess Athena) was built on the Acropolis in
447-432 B.C. by Pericles to honor Athena and to commemorate the Greek
victory over the Persians. The monument is considered one of the most
important ones of the old Greek civilization and is also regarded as
one of the most beautiful architectural works of all times.