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In the name of Adriana

Federation of Cuban Women,
28 July 2009

On behalf of Adriana Pérez, the wife of Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, and in the name of more than 4 millions of affiliated Cuban women, cannot understand this new ferocious and savagery vengeful of the US State Department, that precisely the day they celebrate 21 years of married and for tenth continuously times, has just refused to her the Visa application to meet her husband. The right to see relatives every month is a recognized right to all person imprisoned in that country. On behalf of the reason and of the human dignity, we call women all over the world.

We call you to share with us the demand and the accusation due to this new attack to the justice, this act of extreme violence, of unprecedented cruelty against a woman, for the single fact of being Cuban and of being the wife of a hero, a consequent fighter for the safety, security and the happiness of his people.

Next September will be eleven years of the permanent state of anguish in which Adriana lives. She is subjected to a truth process of physical and affective torture, as is all this could destroy her hopes and feelings. This Cuban woman has not committed a crime in any place of the world, neither in her country, and neither in the United States.

Her life takes place in the middle of the sadness, receiving a punishment for a crime that she has never committed. As if so much suffering was not enough, now she has been wickedness accused, for the Secretary of the State of the most powerful economic and military country in the earth, as a person that "threatens the stability and national security of the United States.”

Adriana still cannot be convinced of this huge artificial lawful and more inadmissible is when such judgment approach comes from a woman: Hillary Clinton, who is also considered as an outstanding jurist. Supposedly, with her intellectual and political level, she should be able to be sensitized by human situations, as those of a wife that for more than 10 years has been denied the right of seeing her husband, the person with whom she has shared her life, it has been denied the possibility of exchanging with him, of supporting him in these difficult circumstances, of sharing the affection and the love that mutually are professed.

We Cuban women are together and supporting Adriana, and we won't give up this battle, so that she can be reencountered with Gerardo and to wait together his return to Cuba . Therefore we again appeal to women all over the world, especially women from United Stated, the simplest wives, sisters, daughters, until the big officers of the highest levels, to revert this absurd and inhuman refusal visa application. We only demand the respect to Adriana's rights, we only ask that her voice to be listened, and the voice of her Cuban sisters that claim for the justice and the reason.

Federation of Cuban Women

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