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Fabio Ochoa: an acceptable criminal
BY JOAQUÍN RIVERY TUR—Granma
daily staff writer—
THERE is nothing easier to compare the treatment
given to any criminal and even to “acceptable”
terrorists with the attitude displayed to
anti-terrorists who
are standing up to this scourge, thus defending Cuba
and the United States, and who are incarcerated in
U.S. jails.
The
five Cuban heroes, imprisoned for devoting their
lives to fighting against anti-Cuban terrorist
organizations, have suffered all conceivable
miseries in US jails, including extended periods of
solitary confinement in cells known as the hole,
without any justification.
The
most sadistic psychological torture used against
these prisoners has been by preventing visits by
their closest family – in flagrant violation of US
laws – in order to break them psychologically.
And
what is happening? The news agency EFE informs from
Bogota: “The US embassy in Colombia has granted
visas to the sons of drug dealer Fabio Ochoa Vásquez
to visit their father, who was extradited in 2001
and is serving a 30-year prison term in a Florida
jail.
Marta Nieves Ochoa, the detainee’s sister, stated
that visas were granted to Nicolás and Sebastián
Ochoa, 23 and 22 years old respectively, and that
the family is “very grateful” to the embassy, while
she defended the right of all extradited Colombian
drug dealers to receive visits from their families.
Thus, criminals engaged in trafficking that
seriously damages the US population—mainly the
youth—are enjoying the benefit of family visits,
whereas the five Cuban: Antonio Guerrero, Fernando
González, Ramón Labañino, René González, and Gerardo
Hernández are not. The wives of the last two do not
have the right to such visits due to their husband’s
condition as political prisoners subjected to the
harshest vengeance of the empire.
The
sentenced and self-confessed terrorists imprisoned
in Panama are now freely walking the streets of
Miami, while another is living under a false
identity in some Central American country, on a
healthy payroll provided by the US government,
despite the number of deaths at their hands.
Washington considers them useful.
Even drug dealers are being granted their elementary
human rights. Meanwhile, the five Cuban heroes are
locked up without any rights, and constantly
threatened with a capricious return to the “hole.”
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