Puerto Ricans Warn on Alleged Flexibility U.S. Policy to Cuba

Havana, Aug 26. – Friends of Cuba in Puerto Rico said that the authorization of the San Juan-Havana charter flights are far from a change in the traditional U.S. hostile policy against its neighboring island.

Successive U.S. administrations have tried to crush the social project started on January 1, 1959 with a criminal economic, trade and financial blockade on the Cuban people, according to a statement issued by the Committee of Solidarity with Cuba in Puerto Rico.

It also bans U.S. and Puerto Rican citizens from traveling freely to Cuba, notes a release of that Puerto Rican organization made public in Havana by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples.

The Puerto Rican media have already reported that the first charter flight to Santiago de Cuba is scheduled for Friday August 26, but it remains conceal that the flights are taking place under all regulations and prohibitions imposed by Washington, limiting the real exchange between both peoples.

Puerto Ricans will continue to support Cuba, proving that friendship can not be blocked, and so we will continue using different strategies to travel to Cuba, the release states.

As part of the support to Cuba, Puerto Ricans have carried out activities for the prompt release of five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. since 1998.

Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez are currently serving harsh sentences for gathering information on anti-Cuba plans by Miami-based terrorist groups.(Prensa Latina)