Fernando González and René witness exposing new book on Cubans imprisoned in the United States

"I think the fate of this book depends on us as well as the fate of all the books that revolve around the Five", said René González, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, in presenting a portrait Absence book which details, with intensity, actually suffered by the Cuban Five and their families.
In the cultural event, attended Abel Prieto, advisor Cuban President Raul Castro.
René noted the need to think of different organizational forms every time you talk about the book, especially considering the history of the Five, the truth of the Five antiterrorist reach anyone unfamiliar with its life, and especially the people States.

"We were five families hit by the injustice and arbitrary" elements that have excelled in revenge against them and our country, and today imposes "talk of the missing". In this regard, the Cuban antiterrorist emphasized the need to fight every day, that "the absence of Gerardo is not eternal" and that each book is what we have wanted it to be: "to Gerardo, Antonio and Ramon become three presences. "

Fernando Gonzalez, also Hero of the Republic and vice president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), recognized the efforts of young journalists and authors of the book: Nyliam Váz¬quez and Oliver Zamora, and highlighted the fact that a generation young has devoted two years of his professional life to researching issues of not only journalism but also human, compassionate and twinned with the struggle for the release of five kinds.
Vice ICAP text as it opens to the play he wrote with certainty that this book "is an important contribution to the ongoing struggle to dismantle this 'conspiracy of silence' and get to the truth (...), who deserve and so far they have been denied knowing the facts and context of the case. "
Elizabeth Palmeiro, wife of terrorism still incarcerated Ramón Labañino said that this book has managed to express the feelings of all family members, and people unfamiliar with the case, they come in a very human way: "We noticed that the questions of authors for making this text adentraban deep into our feelings, and almost seemed to psychotherapy, "said Palmeiro.
"We have to make it article, message, audiovisual materials, and translate all that information into something that reaches as many people as possible (...) this book is not aimed at those who profess our ideals, but to other honest people world of unknown history ", said Abel Prieto, advisor to the President of the Con¬sejos of State and Ministers.
Prieto said his perception of the book and said it was "a work that clearly set out the reasons for the reality of the Five de¬nuncia with wit and ability to synthesize, describe the process, the task of the trial, the jury selection : all the evil that has employed the empire against the Five and their families. "
Built according to Prieto "as a polyphonic testimony" that interweaves fragments entre¬vistas, and on the basis of texts, images, photographs, statements, letters and complaints, the book itemizes both legal and ethical issues as human, that recall the process and involvement in the lives of their families.
"You always have the hope that his first book is built on a im¬portante, transcendent and useful topic; noso¬tros think, as authors have had the privilege of it, "said Oliver Zamora, one of the creators of the text.
Nyliam Vazquez, meanwhile, said on the need for them to create a really useful process works and to show the world the greatness of the Five: "I stay with the absolute certainty that the Five are men who want my kids know that, "he said.
Portrait of an Absence also includes works of artist René Rancaño and archival photographs and photojournalist Ismael Francisco Arceo.