René González Shewerert, Biography

René González Shewerert, Biography
2010.04.29 - 15:48:23 / web@radiorebelde.icrt.cu




No. 58738-004
René González
F.C.I. Edgefield
P. O. Box 725
Edgefield, South Carolina 29824

René González Sehwerert was born in Chicago on August 13, 1956. On October 6, 1961 his parents, Cándido René González Castillo and Irma Teodora Sehwerert, returned to Cuba with their two sons.


René began primary studies in the José Martí School in Santa María del Mar, east of Havana, with satisfactory results. In 1968, he was admitted to the Military School in Baracoa, west of Havana. But due to health problems he was unable to continue this institute's rigorous academic program.


He began high school in 1972 and in 1973 joined a Workers Contingent in which he took a special high school course for workers. He began teaching classes between 1973 and 1974. It was common practice for high school graduates to teach classes in the early years of the Cuban Revolution when the government was still trying to consolidate the education system.


In 1974, although maintaining his status as a US citizen and therefore eligible for exemption from patriotic responsibilities, he presented himself for military service. He was trained as a tank driver, and at the beginning of 1977, after completing his military service, was accepted to go on an internationalist mission to Angola. He completed his mission in 1979, having been decorated for bravery. Between 1979 and 1982 he studied at the Carlos Ulloa School of Aviation, where he graduated as a pilot. He worked as a flight instructor until 1985, when he was designated squadron chief and head of the aeronautics sports sector.


At the end of 1990 he travelled to the United States. In Miami he gained access to different counterrevolutionary organizations that used US territory to organize and carry out terrorist actions against Cuba with the aim of provoking a military confrontation between the two countries. He earned his living as a flight instructor.


His wife Olga Salanueva Arango went to the US in January 1997 to join her husband, accompanied by their eldest daughter, Irma González Salanueva. In 1998, a few months before his detention, the youngest member of the family was born in the US, Ivette González Salanueva.


As a result of René's arrest, Olga and her family began to receive threats as well as psychological and economic pressure to betray her husband and her convictions. She nevertheless decided to stay in the United States to act as an intermediary between René and his country, and to provide him moral support. But due to her unwavering attitude she was imprisoned for 3 months by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and then deported to Cuba in late 2000.


René was charged with Count 1 (general conspiracy) and with failure to register as a foreign agent and sentenced to 15 years.

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Fernando González Llort (Rubén Campa), Biography

Fernando González Llort (Rubén Campa), Biography
2010.04.29 - 15:44:27 / web@radiorebelde.icrt.cu




No. 58733-004v
F.C.I. Oxford
P.O. Box 1000
Oxford WI 53952-0505

Fernando González Llort was born in Havana on August 18, 1963, son of Magaly Llort Ruiz and Fernando Rafael González Quiñones.Fernando started his primary school education in 1968 and in 1973 began junior high school in the José Martí Secondary School outside of Havana. At this stage he joined the Union of Junior and High School Students (FEEM) with responsibilities at class level.


Between 1978 and 1981 he attended senior high school on the Isle of Youth, finishing in the top three of his class.


From 1981 to 1987 he studied at the Higher Institute of International Relations, from which he graduated with honors. While attending the institute, he held several responsibilities as a member of the Federation of University Students (FEU).
He also stood out as an organizer and promoter of cultural events, actively participating in the theatre festivals held at the institute.


Between 1987 and 1989 he we went to Angola as part of an internationalist mission, for which he received a medal for bravery.


In the wake of increased aggressions and terrorist activities against Cuba in the 1990s, Fernando was assigned the mission of monitoring and gathering information about the activities of some leaders and members of counterrevolutionary organizations based in Florida.


Fernando's wife, Rosa Aurora Freijanes Coca, graduated in economics. Since 1997, she's been working for a branch of Cuba's COPEXTEL firm. Both Rosa Aurora and Fernando's mother, Magaly, work tirelessly for his release.


Fernando was charged with Count 1 (general conspiracy) and with a number of false identity and failure to register as a foreign agent charges. He was sentenced to 19 years imprisonment.

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Ramón Labañino Salazar (Luis Medina), Biography

Ramón Labañino Salazar (Luis Medina), Biography
2010.04.29 - 15:40:27 / web@radiorebelde.icrt.cu




No. 58734-004
U.S.P. Beaumont
P.O. Box 26030
Beaumont TX 77720-6035

Ramón Labañino Salazar was born on June 9, 1963 in the municipality of Marianao, Havana, to Nereyda Salazar Verduy, now deceased, and Olmes Labañino Castillo. He attended primary school in La Lisa municipality, where his responsibilities included taking charge of the classroom and supervising younger students.


Between 1973 and 1976, he continued his secondary studies at the Osvaldo Rafael Sánchez Junior High School in La Lisa, where he also had responsibilities such as supervising sports and recreation periods.


From 1976 1979 he attended the high school in Marianao municipality, where he earned several distinctions including diplomas for being an outstanding and advanced student. He also began to develop an active political life.


Between 1980 and 1986 he completed his academic education at the University of Havana, majoring in Economics graduating with first class honours.


He went to the Unites States at the beginning of the '90s charged with the important and risk-filled task of penetrating counterrevolutionary groups in Miami, which, with support from Washington, had increased their terrorist and destabilization activities against Cuba.


Up until the moment of his detention in Florida, he earned his living delivering medicines to different pharmacies in Florida and selling shoes.


Ramón married Elizabeth Palmeiro Casado, an English Language and Literature graduate employed by the foreign affairs ministry, in June 1990. They have two daughters: Laura Labañino Palmeiro, 8,and Lisbet Labañino Palmeiro, 4. He has a 13-year old daughter, Ailí Labañino Cardoso, from a previous marriage.


Ramón was charged with Count 1(general conspiracy) and Count 2 (conspiracy to commit espionage). He was charged with having monitored the McDill Air Force base nearby Tampa and subsequently working in the oversight of Cuban agents, intending to penetrate the military installations of the Boca Chica naval air station in the Keys and the U.S. Southern Command in Miami.

He was sentenced to life plus 8 years.

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Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez, Biography

Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez, Biography
2010.04.29 - 15:30:11 / web@radiorebelde.icrt.cu




No. 58741-004
U.S.P. Florence
P.O. Box 7500
Florence CO 81226


Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez was born on October 16, 1958 in Miami.


In 1959, a few days after the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution, his parents Antonio Guerrero Cancio y Mirta Rodríguez Pérez decided to return to Cuba to become involved in the revolutionary process. Antonio began his primary school education in 1962 at the Lazo de la Vega Primary School where he completed his studies in 1970.


His secondary education took place at the José María Heredia High School, where he was one of the most outstanding students of his year.


In 1973 he started junior high school studies at the Vladimir Ilich Lenin Vocational School where he continued to be an excellent student. He was regional president of the Union of Junior High and High School Students (FEEM).


When he completed his high school studies he won a scholarship to study aeronautic engineering and construction in the former Soviet Union. In 1983 he graduated with top honors, receiving 4.7 points out of a possible 5 in his final thesis.


On his return to Cuba he was assigned to Cubana de Aviación, the national airline company, where he worked as a specialist in airport construction, rapidly rising to the position of head of the aerodrome section in the airport.


During this period he married Delgis Cabrera Puentes and had a son, Tonito, who now resides with his mother in Santiago de Cuba.


A second son, Gabriel Eduardo Guerrero, was born in Panama to his second wife, Niccia Pérez Barreto.


Later on Antonio went to the United States where he had various casual jobs until finally getting temporary better paid work at the office of public works at the Aero naval station in Cayo Hueso.


While in the United States, Antonio met a US woman, Magaret Bécquer, whom he married in 1998. Maggy has collected, translated and helped to publish Antonio's poems written during his time in detention and prison, titled: From My Altitide.


In spite of his imprisonment thousands of miles away from his family, Antonio Guerrero has maintained close personal contact with all his family, especially his widowed mother, Mirta, who has been to visit him in prison.


Antonio was a charged with Count 1 (the general conspiracy count) and Count 2 (conspiracy to commit espionage).


He was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 10 years.

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Gerardo Hernández Nordelo (Manuel Viramontes), Biography

.Gerardo Hernández Nordelo (Manuel Viramontes), Biography
2010.04.29 - 15:27:12 / web@radiorebelde.icrt.cu




No. 58739-004
U.S. Penitentiary-Lompoc
3901 Klein Blvd.
Lompoc, CA 93436

Gerardo Hernández Nordelo was born in Havana on June 4, 1965, the third and youngest son of Gerardo Hernández Martí, since deceased, and Carmen Nordelo Tejera. He spent all his childhood in the Havana suburb of Víbora. He studied at his neighbourhood primary school, where he received several awards for his activities as a Young Pioneer, Cuba's children's organization.


He completed his junior high school education occupying different levels of responsibilities and finishing among the top students in his class. He began high school studies in 1980, and was elected as municipal delegate to the FEEM, the Union of Junior High and High School Students. In the 11th grade he was elected member of the Municipal Council of the FEEM.


Between 1983 and 1989 Gerardo studied at the Higher Institute of International Relations, finishing with excellent results. During his university studies he was outstanding for his participation in amateur festivals organised by the National Students Union, the FEU, as part of a theatre group and as a caricaturist.


In 1988 he married Adriana Pérez O'Connor, a graduate in chemical engineering and specialist at the Food Industry Research Institute. He went to Angola in 1989 to take part in an internationalist mission that earned him several medals and awards for bravery in combat.


During the 90's he took part in missions in the United States directed at preventing terrorist actions against Cuba, organized and carried out by counterrevolutionary groups in Miami. While in the United States he worked as a graphic artist.


Gerardo has the full support of his wife, Adriana Perez O'Connor, his mother, Carmen Nordelo Tejera, who was born in the Canary Islands and came to Cuba in 1950, and his surviving sister, Isabel Hernández Nordelo, all of whom work tirelessly to gain his release.


In addition to the general conspiracy count (Count 1) and the conspiracy to commit espionage (Count 2), Gerardo was the only defendant charged with Count 3, conspiracy to commit murder by the alleged unlawful killing of the four Brothers to the Rescue pilots by the shooting down by Cuban air force Mig pilots, in a disputed air space, on February 24, 1996. He was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment plus 15 years.

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Inventos en la prensa de Suiza: dicen que lanzadoras cubanas de jabalina usan granadas de mano por falta de materiales

José Manzaneda, coordinador de Cubainformación.- La Asociación de amistad Suiza-Cuba nos facilita un ejemplo de cómo la prensa helvética participa de la guerra mediática contra Cuba.

En junio de 2010, el periódico en idioma alemán Aargauer Zeitung, principal diario del Cantón de Argovia, en Suiza, publicaba una columna titulada “¡Qué clase de granada!”, junto a una gran fotografía de una lanzadora cubana de jabalina, que portaba una granada de mano vacía (2).

En el texto, se lee: “(En Cuba) no hay jabalinas, pero hay que entrenar y a su entrenador se le ocurrió la idea de darle bolas de acero. Pero como estas bolas también escasean, ella (la deportista de la foto) practica (...) con granadas desactivadas. En las dictaduras el deporte siempre es una batalla”.

El texto, del novelista y periodista Max Dohner, da a entender algo que es absolutamente ridículo: que en Cuba las lanzadoras de jabalina no tienen jabalinas, y que por eso utilizan bolas o granadas. En febrero de 2011, miembros de la Asociación de amistad Suiza-Cuba localizaron, en un entrenamiento en La Habana, a Yanet Cruz, la joven deportista de la fotografía, y le mostraron el recorte de prensa. Tras una primera reacción de completo asombro, su primer comentario fue muy cubano: ese periodista “está loco”.

La lanzadora explicó que el uso de bolas y granadas vacías –un ejemplo de reutilización de materiales muy común en la Isla- no es sustitutivo del empleo de jabalinas, y que cumple otra función en el entrenamiento: buscar la velocidad en el lanzamiento.

Es posible que al autor, alguien le contara que el material deportivo no abunda en Cuba, algo cierto sin duda. Los mil prejuicios y mentiras sobre Cuba instalados en su mente hicieron el resto.

Pero regresemos al texto, que continúa así: “Yanet no puede lograr medalla de oro olímpico, no debido al instrumento que utilizó para entrenar, sino por falta de fuerza. La causa es que el arroz, alimento básico, desde hace semanas también escasea en Cuba. (...) De nuevo rige en Cuba el `Periodo especial´”.

Recordemos que “Período especial” es como Fidel Castro denominó, a comienzo de los años 90, a la etapa de carencias materiales que sobrevino a la caída de la Unión Soviética, principal socio comercial de Cuba. Este “Período especial” aún no ha sido superado completamente, aunque el autor se refiere a los años más duros de éste, en los que había una gran escasez de comida, electricidad y transporte. Pretender comparar la situación actual –no exenta de carencias- con la de aquellos años es mentir descaradamente a los lectores suizos.

Lo curioso es que el autor de este texto, el escritor y periodista Max Dohner, residió varios años en Nicaragua. Por ello, debe conocer realmente lo que son situaciones de grave carencia alimenticia. La escasez de determinados productos en Cuba en algunos momentos jamás ha conducido, en estos últimos años, a situaciones de déficit nutricional, tan comunes en otros lugares de América Latina. Marcio Porto, representante de la FAO, aseguraba recientemente que Cuba garantiza a sus habitantes seguridad alimentaria sustentable (3). El informe “Progreso de la infancia. Un balance sobre la nutrición”, presentado por UNICEF, afirma que Cuba es el único país de América Latina y el Caribe que ha eliminado, por ejemplo, la desnutrición infantil severa (4). Mientras, 53 millones de personas pasan hambre en América Latina. En un país petrolero como México, por ejemplo, hay más de 5 millones de personas desnutridas.

Por otra parte, hablar de una supuesta “falta de fuerza” de los deportistas de Cuba por no comer arroz, además de mentira, es una soberana estupidez, porque es conocido que estas personas reciben una atención alimenticia especial.

Por cierto, la lanzadora Yanet Cruz, de 23 años, que fue tercera en el Campeonato Mundial Juvenil de 2005, tiene una marca personal de 62,90 metros, 10 metros más que las supuestamente mejor alimentadas atletas de Suiza.

La frase final del artículo tampoco tiene desperdicio: “¿Cuando llegará el día en que alguien (en Cuba) arroje granadas de verdad?” Imaginamos que esta pregunta responde a un profundo deseo del redactor: la destrucción violenta del orden político y social cubano. Algo que refleja –de una manera un tanto extrema- la ansiedad de los medios ante la normalidad con que la sociedad cubana afronta sus dificultades y discute también sus necesarios cambios.

Nos cuentan los miembros de la Asocación Suiza-Cuba que, en febrero de 2011, mientras paseaban por la Feria del Libro de La Habana, se les acercó una periodista alemana y les preguntó si creían que en Cuba comenzarían pronto revueltas similares a las de El Cairo y Túnez. La desconexión de la realidad de quienes en Europa –supuestamente- tienen el deber de informarnos es cada día más sorprendente.

No sabemos si al periodista suizo Max Dohner, después de semejante ejercicio de imaginación, se le habrán agotado las ideas para seguir tergiversando la realidad cubana. Por ello -y sin que sirva de precedente- desde Cubainformación le sugerimos una nueva: ¿Estará en esta foto la deportista lanzando su jabalina contra el Che, icono de la Revolución cubana?

Resalta Labañino ejemplo de dignidad del abogado Weinglass

Ramón Labañino, uno de los cinco antiterroristas cubanos prisioneros desde hace más de 12 años en Estados Unidos, resaltó el ejemplo de dignidad del abogado norteamericano Leonard Weinglass, quien falleció este miércoles en Nueva York.
Aquellos que tuvieron el honor de reunirse con él, conservaremos para siempre en nuestras mentes y corazones su ejemplo de dignidad, inteligencia y de excelente ser humano, escribió Labañino desde la prisión de Jesup, en el estado de Georgia, donde cumple una condena de 30 años.
El mensaje se dio a conocer en la filial del Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos, en esta ciudad, mientras Adriana Pérez y Rosa Aurora Freijanes, respectivas esposas de Gerardo Hernández y Fernando González, sostenían un encuentro con jóvenes de naciones tercermundistas becados gratuitamente por Cuba en universidades de Camagüey.
La mejor manera de honrarlo es seguir su senda, nos mantendremos luchando hasta la victoria final, señala Labañino.
El mensaje fue enviado en nombre también de Gerardo Hernández, René González, Fernando González y Antonio Guerrero, quienes, al igual que Labañino, penetraron organizaciones terroristas anticubanas en Estados Unidos para prevenir planes criminales contra la Isla.
Adriana Pérez y Rosa Aurora Freijanes asisten al XIII Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres Economistas y Contadoras, que se inició hoy aquí.
(Con información de la AIN)