Stephen Kimber: Courage Defines the Cuban Five

Havana - Canadian journalist Stephen Kimber highlighted here the courage, bravery and honor of the Cuban Five, as their main virtues, after being freed from their respective penal sentences a year ago.

Kimber made some statements during the presentation of his book titled "From the Other Side of the Sea" at the 15th International Book Fair of Cuba, telling about the real story of the Cuban Five.

"What made me tell this story, were their ethic principles and their sense of courage, bravery and honor that they showed during the time they were in prison," said the Canadian write, before the presence of Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and René González, the five anti-terrorist fighters known as the Cuban Five all around the world.

René González, who is in charge of the prologue of the book, thought that "the humanity is a new endangered species, but that would just happen if the truth is eliminated, and, so that this way they could convince us that is good to kill ourselves one to the other", expressed the antiterrorist imprisoned in the USA from 1998 to 2011.

"But for truth to be fully eliminated - added González - they should eliminate first the honest journalism that is already moribund; but there still remain journalists, such as Kimber, who happily decided one day to arrive in Havana as a tourist, from this moment on, we became friends and this was a book that had to be done," he said.

René, as affectionately the Cuban people calls him, praised also the integrity of Kimber, since - according to his appreciation - never left that his religious or political differences with The Cuban Five to intervene in the way of the intention of looking and spreading the truth without altering it in expediency of anybody, he concluded.

Antonio Guerrero was grateful to the Canadian writer, the current Interim Director of the Journalist School of the University of the King in Canada, "for being such a brave man and bold journalist, since this book takes us across everything happened from that fatidical September 12, 1998", the date in which they were arrested.

"It was in that date when we met before the dilemma of seeing exactly what and who we were, in only seconds, the whole history of our people conjugated, from our heroes up to the most common of the Cuban citizens, and it was there when we decide to take the correct way", Guerrero concluded between applauses.

The book has already a vast way toured by different countries, and has been awarded with the prestigious Evelyn Ricardson Prize, because of the volume of truth on the story.

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