Saturday 29, 2000

Presidio Politico Cubano
Communiqué

The entire Presidio Politico Cubano (Cuban Political Prisioners Organization) upon the public opinion:

Hold President Bill Clinton and Secretary of Justice, Janet Reno, responsible for all material and moral damages that have taken place, and will take place, in Miami Dade and other cities of the United States due to the Cuban and Hispanic Community’s protests motivated by the violent and illegal form in which Mr. Clinton and Ms. Reno have handled the Elián Gonzalez case and his Miami Family.

We denounce the obvious compliance of the President and the Secretary of Justice with Castro’s government, because this case of little Elián Gonzalez has been acted out and led under the direct orientation of Castro’s government, for Castro’s own convenience and advantage.

Therefore, we demand that Congress carry out an investigation of the deceiving links and arrangements that Clinton’s government has performed through attorney Gregory Craig, and other financial interests groups, with Castro’s government in both, Elián Gonzalez’s case and in future agreements with such dictatorship.

In Miami, this twenty-fourth day of April of the year 2000

The undersigned, Cuban Political Prisioners Organizations:

Coornadora International De Ex Prisioneros Politicos Cubanos.
General Secretary, Eddy Carreras

Frente Nacional Presidio Politico Cubano
President, Rufino Alvarez

Presidio Politico Historico Cubano “Casa Del Preso
President, Rodolfo San Róman

Asociacion De Ex Prisioneros Y Combatientes Politicos Cubanos.
"El EX-Club”
President, Rolando Borges

Ex Confinados Politicos De La UMAP
President, Emilio Izquierdo Jr