3-15-09, 10:26 am

HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 14 (acn) – Although the United States has repeatedly refused to allow Adriana Perez to visit Gerardo Hernandez, she will never give up the struggle for the right to visit her husband. Gerardo Hernandez is one of five Cuban anti-terrorists incarcerated in the United States.

(Learn more about the Cuban Five here.)

On April 10, Adriana will attend another interview with officials from the US Interest Section in Havana. Rosa Aurora Freijanes, the wife of Cuban Five, Fernando González, has also been called for the same day.

The relatives of the Cuban Five are continuing their demand of an end to the restrictions, attempts of division, and other violations of the US prison laws in the case of the Cuban Five.

Olga Salanueva, the wife of Rene Gonzalez, told ACN that she hasn’t seen him since 2000 when she was deported to Cuba, and that she has been declared ineligible for a visa for life.

The US authorities only allow the Five to be visited by their close relatives, and have exceptionally authorized other people, provided that they were acquaintances or friends before September 12, 1998, added the interviewee.

Salanueva stated that besides the considerable restriction of visits, they have been denied visits by religious personalities such as Father Botton in the case of René and Antonio, and even to the mayor of the city where Gerardo is imprisoned.

She indicated that if several years ago consular accesses were monthly, they now take place every three months.

“For these reasons, we denounce that our five companions spend months without personal contacts with the outside world, and have been denied for two years the visits of their wives and children, as happened with Ramon Labañino,” said Salanueva.

She said that, in her opinion, the US government should grant multiple visas to the relatives of the Five and not tourist visas as has happened so far,since intentions and regulations are different.

For her part, Elizabeth Palmeiro, Ramon’s wife, announced that a group of relatives, in addition to Adriana and Rosa Aurora, have been called for April 10, while others have been waiting for the granting of their entry visas since November.

From the Cuban News Agency