{"id":265,"date":"2011-10-17T09:41:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T09:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cubasupport.com\/latest\/?p=265"},"modified":"2020-05-06T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T14:14:13","slug":"rene-gonzalez-is-out-of-prison-but-still-not-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/rene-gonzalez-is-out-of-prison-but-still-not-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez is out of prison … but still not free"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is Ren\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez, first of the Miami\u00a0Five to be freed in the United States, as he leaves Marianna prison in Florida, Friday, Oct. 7, 2011.\u00a0\u00a0Watch the YouTube video below\u00a0– it’s\u00a0an emotional first encounter with his daughters, his father C\u00e1ndido and his brother Roberto.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9’s wife, Olga, is still banned form travelling to the USA to visit him by US authorities, continuing what Amnesty International called a “form of torture” which has been imposed arbitrarily on him for more than a decade.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I am ready to continue fighting until I die,” <\/em>were his first words after embracing and kissing his daughters, Ivette and Irmita, who filmed the moment that they met him as he left the prison.<\/em><\/p>\n

“My love, my treasure. How are you? …they say that I’m looking great. Your older daughter is here filming. They are both beautiful,”<\/em> he told his wife Olga Salanueva by telephone.<\/em><\/p>\n

He added that on the eve of his release from the prison, he was confined to the “hole” (the punishment cell) by prison officials: “I remained in the hole the rest of the evening, I slept well and they woke me. I jumped up like a spring. Everything was very quick; from the time they opened the hole until I got out: 10 minutes,” <\/em>Ren\u00e9 said.<\/em><\/p>\n

One can also see Ren\u00e9 singing “El Mayor,” the song by Silvio Rodr\u00edguez, while he is with his daughters and brother Roberto in the car that takes him to where he will live in Florida, while he completes the three years of supervised release imposed by judge Joan Lenard.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I am thinking of Gerardo,” says Ren\u00e9, with the dawn of the morning light and the sounds of “El Necio,” in the car, also by Silvio.The Cuban anti-terrorist activist, together with his lawyer Philip Horowitz, appeared before the officials assigned to supervise his case.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Video: Ren\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez Leaving Prison<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I am ready to continue fighting until I die,” were his first words after embracing and kissing his daughters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miami-5"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":227,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/free-the-miami-five-launch-events-to-mark-start-of-the-fives-14th-year-in-custody\/","url_meta":{"origin":265,"position":0},"title":"Free the Miami Five launch events to mark start of the Five’s 14th year in custody","author":"Editorial Team","date":"September 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, the Irish Free the Miami Five Campaign is launching a programme of actions in the months of September and October to increase pressure for an end to this gross miscarriage of justice.","rel":"","context":"In "Miami 5"","block_context":{"text":"Miami 5","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/miami-5\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.com\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/M5-Sept-20111.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2237,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/the-wasp-network-highlights-our-lack-of-freedom-to-tell-the-truth-on-the-cuban-five-case\/","url_meta":{"origin":265,"position":1},"title":"The \u201cWasp Network\u201d Highlights our Lack of Freedom to Tell the Truth on the Cuban Five Case","author":"Editorial Team","date":"June 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The film\u00a0Wasp Network,\u00a0based on the book\u00a0The Last Soldiers of the Cold War, The Story of the Cuban Fiveby Fernando Morais, is a co-production between France, Spain, Belgium and Brazil.\u00a0It was shown in Cuba last December, soon after it came out. 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