{"id":4306,"date":"2008-09-23T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2008-09-23T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T17:36:08","slug":"a-message-from-gerardo-hernandez-on-the-tenth-anniversary-of-the-unjust-imprisonment-of-the-cuban-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4306","title":{"rendered":"A Message from Gerardo Hern\u00e1ndez on the tenth anniversary of the unjust imprisonment of the Cuban Five"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear compa\u00f1eras and compa\u00f1eros:<\/p>\n

\"Gerardo<\/a>

Gerardo Hern\u00e1ndez<\/p><\/div>We arrive at the 10th anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban Five at a crucial moment of our legal process (That is what they call it, although perhaps \u201cillegal process\u201d would be more appropriate.) The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Atlanta, has just ended our appeal.<\/p>\n

That is to say, if it were up to them, things would stand as is, and some day my bones would be sent to Cuba, after death frees me from two life sentences.<\/p>\n

The court in question has given unmistakable signals of the type of \u201cjustice\u201d that the Five can aspire to in this country. When there was a decision 3-to-0 in our favor, with 93 pages of solid arguments in which the three-judge panel characterized our trial as \u201cThe Perfect Storm,\u201d the full panel, against all predictions, not only agreed to review the decision, but reversed it without much explanation. The \u201cperfect storm\u201d quickly became simply a drizzle.<\/p>\n

Yet, this time, when the decision was 2-1 against the Five, with obvious legal errors, with a judge arguing in 16 pages that the prosecution presented absolutely no proof that sustains the charge of conspiracy to commit murder, and with a judge who\u2014although voting against us\u2014recognized that it is a \u201cvery close case,\u201d and with several defense arguments were not even seriously analyzed, the 11th Circuit categorically refused to review it.<\/p>\n

As we say in Cuba: \u201cNot even water is as clear.\u201d We have said time and again that this is a political case, and those who do not see it as such, choose not to see it.<\/p>\n

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Dear compa\u00f1eras and compa\u00f1eros: We arrive at the 10th anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban Five at a crucial moment of our legal process (That is what they call it, although perhaps \u201cillegal process\u201d would be more appropriate.) The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-17s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4309,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions\/4309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}