Calls for the release of the Five in Peru

BY RAIMUNDO LOPEZ

LIMA, Nov 12 (PL.).—Today was the culmination of another national action organized by Peruvian groups calling for the release of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters imprisoned in the United States since 1998.

Representatives of those groups campaigned by collecting signatures and other letters of support to be sent to the U.S. government, international organizations, the Cuban authorities and the patriots themselves.

The prominent political leader Gustavo Espinoza, president of the Peruvian Solidarity Committee for the Five Patriots, reported that members of the Peruvian-Cuban Casas de Amistad, trade union and political organizations participated in the activities.

Delegates at the 5th National Solidarity with Cuba Meeting, held last month from October 7 to 10, ratified the struggle for the freedom of the five heroes as one of their main tasks.

Espinoza, former congressman and director of the monthly Nuestra Bandera, explained that petitions will be collected tonight at the headquarters of the National Telephone Workers Union.

"This is a task of honor, which we Peruvians will also fulfill with honor because it demonstrates that in our country solidarity is not only a theoretical concept but concrete action," he informed Prensa Latina.

He indicated that participants can also sign a solidarity book which, together with the petitions, will be sent to international organizations as part of a campaign to support the release of the Five.

Additionally they can send their own messages, letters, greetings, communication and expressions of support to the five patriots, which will be forwarded to prisons in which they are presently confined.