Dean puede convertirse en tormenta de categoría máxima y enfila hacia Yucatán y el Golfo de México
Miami (Reuters-RHC) Se espera que el huracán Dean se convierta en una poderosa tormenta de categoría 5 mientras pasa por Jamaica y se acerca a la Península de Yucatán y a las plataformas de petróleo y gas en el Golfo de México, dijo el viernes el Centro Nacional de Huracanes de Estados Unidos.
Defensa civil de Cuba establece alerta ciclónica para provincias orientales y fase informativa para el resto del país
La Habana (AIN-RHC) La Defensa Civil emitió la Nota Informativa Número 2 en la que expresa que durante la madrugada de hoy el huracán Dean ha continuado moviéndose en el mar Caribe Oriental convertido en un huracán de gran intensidad.
Huracán Dean continúa como categoría cuatro
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Posponen los juicios contra cinco colaboradores de Posada Carriles
By WILFREDO CANCIO ISLALos juicios por desacato contra cinco cercanos colaboradores del militante anticastrista Luis Posada Carriles fueron pospuestos nuevamente hasta finales de año, confirmaron fuentes judiciales.Según documentos divulgados ayer por el tribunal federal de El Paso, Texas, el juez David Briones decidió prorrogar hasta el 29 de octubre, a las 9 a.m., el juicio contra los acusados Ernesto Abreu, de 44 años, Santiago Alvarez y Osvaldo Mitat, ambos de 65.
La noticia coincidió con la liberación de Mitat, quien salió el jueves de una prisión federal de Miami-Dade tras cumplir 22 meses de condena por una caso de posesión ilícita de armamentos y explosivos. Su compañero de causa, Alvarez, debe quedar en libertad a finales de año.
El tribunal de El Paso también postergó hasta el 13 de noviembre, a las 8:30 a.m., el juicio contra los exiliados cubanos José Hilario Pujol, de 76 años, y Rubén López Castro, de 67, quienes debían comparecer ante la jueza Kathleen Cardone a partir del 22 de agosto.
''La decisión fue motivada porque las partes manifestaron la necesidad de prórroga a fin de explorar una posible solución para todos los involucrados en el caso'', indicó el abogado Luis Fernández, que representa a Pujol.
La postergación de ambos procesos pudiera estar vinculada a la situación de Posada, quien está bajo investigación de un jurado de instrucción en Nueva Jersey por sus presuntos vínculos con atentados en instalaciones turísticas cubanas en 1997.
Ayer una fuente relacionada con la pesquisa de Nueva Jersey aseguró a El Nuevo Herald que ''la fiscalía tiene listo el caso'' para encausar a Posada, de 79 años, quien está en libertad en Miami desde el pasado 8 de mayo bajo un reglamento de supervisión.
''La investigación está concluida y existen presiones de Washington para que Posada acepte cierto grado de culpabilidad'', indicó la fuente bajo condición de anonimato.
El abogado de Posada, Arturo Hernández, no quiso ayer hacer comentarios sobre el asunto.
El gobierno también apeló el caso de inmigración de Posada ante la Corte del Quinto Circuito de Nueva Orleáns, cuya decisión tendría indiscutible impacto en los procesos judiciales contra los cinco exiliados cubanos.
Los abogados Fernández y Miguel del Aguila, que representan a Abreu, declinaron referirse a las posibles implicaciones de un fallo sobre Posada para sus respectivos clientes.
Los cinco activistas se negaron a testificar ante un jurado de instrucción sobre la entrada de Posada a Estados Unidos en marzo del 2005. Excepto Abreu, los cuatro restantes formaron parte de la tripulación del barco Santrina, que viajó a Isla Mujeres, México, en esa fecha.
Un informante del FBI que los acompañó, Gilberto Abascal, asegura que Posada fue traído ilegalmente en la embarcación desde México hasta Miami.
Posada sostiene que entró a Estados Unidos por la frontera mexicana, con la ayuda de un contrabandista. Sobre él pesa una orden final de deportación y una solicitud de extradición del gobierno de Venezuela para juzgarlo por el atentado contra un avión cubano con 73 pasajeros en 1976.
Chicago-born spy remains hero in Cuba
As Rene Gonzalez and four others appeal their 2001 U.S. convictions this week, kin and countrymen rally behind 'terrorism fighters'
By Michael Martinez Chicago Tribune correspondent HAVANA — One of Cuba's most celebrated spies was born in a flat along Chicago's bustling Ashland Avenue in 1956.
Back then, Rene Gonzalez, now in a Florida prison cell, was just like any other kid on the North Side, enjoying outings at the lake, Lincoln Park Zoo and the bygone Riverview amusement park, his mother recalled in an interview last week in Havana.
But after his parents returned home to Cuba in 1961 to join Fidel Castro's young communist nation, Gonzalez grew up to become a Cuban agent. He eventually worked in an intelligence ring called the Wasp Network, which U.S. authorities accused of entering the U.S. and spying on an American naval base in Key West and militant anti-Castro groups in Miami—with deadly results.
On Monday, Gonzalez and four imprisoned comrades will challenge their 2001 spying convictions in a federal appeals court in Atlanta. They will argue that a prosecutor's arguments to the jury constituted misconduct, that their convictions were based on insufficient evidence and that their sentences exceeded federal guidelines.
In Cuba, the incarceration of the "Cuban 5" or "Los Cinco"—Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez (no relation to Rene)—is the focus of an enormous campaign to portray the agents as national heroes suffering injustice on U.S. soil. They are serving sentences ranging from 15 years to life.
In the state-controlled Cuban media, they are called "terrorism fighters," not spies.
"They will return," say billboards adorned with photos of each one, including Rene Gonzalez, looking like a casual professor with a salt-and-pepper goatee.
"They were fighting for the [Cuban] revolution," contended Irma Schwerert, Gonzalez's 69-year-old mother. "Undoubtedly, they are political prisoners."
The five agents are lionized here for infiltrating Cuban-American groups in South Florida that Cuban officials say were intent on terrorizing the island in the 1990s, when tourism was reintroduced to replace lost subsidies from the collapsed Soviet Union. Several Cuban tourism centers were bombed during that decade. The Cuban government lodged a protest with the U.S. over what it said were exiles financing the bombings.
"The crowd in Miami saw an opportunity to destroy the tourism industry and bring Cuba to its knees," said Leonard Weinglass, a New York attorney representing one of the five agents. "These five came in the early-to-the-mid-'90s from Cuba when the United States didn't respond to the [Cuban] protest."
One of the five agents held a civilian job at the Boca Chica Naval Air Station in Key West, but the defendants contended they did not gather secret U.S. defense information, only public data, Weinglass said. Prosecutors dispute that claim.
All five were convicted of conspiring as unregistered Cuban agents to spy on the U.S., and three were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. The spy group had included five more members, but they pleaded guilty in exchange for cooperation and were given reduced sentences.
Prosecutors accused Rene Gonzalez of faking defection back to the U.S. in 1990, reclaiming his U.S. citizenship, and then working as a pilot for two exile groups, including one called Brothers to the Rescue. He is serving a 15-year sentence in a Marianna, Fla., prison.
Another of the agents, Hernandez, was convicted of murder conspiracy relating to the deaths of four members of Brothers to the Rescue after two of the group's U.S.-registered civilian planes were shot down by the Cuban military in 1996.
The spy case highlights the enmity between Castro and Cuban-Americans in Miami, as well as the hostility between Havana and Washington that extends back to the unsuccessful U.S.-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion using Cuban exiles in 1961.
Cuban officials charge that the prosecution and sentencing of the five men in a federal court in Miami was influenced by that community's antipathy against Castro. Cuban officials also have condemned the United States for what they deem as hypocrisy in fighting terrorism.
"These were persons who were in the United States monitoring Cuban terrorist groups in Florida," Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba's National Assembly, said in an interview last week.
Alarcon described the sentences as "excessive" when compared with those of other convicted spies in the U.S. He cited a Chicago-area case in which an alleged spy for Saddam Hussein, Khaled Abdel-Latif Dumeisi of Oak Lawn, was sentenced to 46 months in 2004 for failing to register as a foreign agent and committing conspiracy and perjury.
In court documents, U.S. prosecutors said the convictions against the Cuban agents should stand.
"What the United States proved, overwhelmingly, is that the appellants agreed and sought to communicate, deliver and transmit non-public national defense information to Cuba, with reason to believe it would be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of Cuba," R. Alexander Acosta, the Miami-based U.S. attorney for South Florida, wrote last December.
Back in Havana, Schwerert and other relatives of the agents often are feted at state functions. In interviews, they have denounced the sentences as unjust and politically motivated.
Schwerert, a retired union official, said her family used to live on the 1300 block of North Ashland Avenue, then a Polish neighborhood, and eventually moved to northwest Indiana for better-paying jobs.
She still has a sister and a half-dozen other relatives in Chicago; her mother, with whom she initially lived on the same Ashland block, now lives in Sarasota, Fla. Schwerert and her husband were among a small number of immigrants who returned to Cuba after Castro's 1959 takeover, she said.
Schwerert, who recalled sending money from Chicago to support the Castro-led revolution, now proudly notes that her son was born on the same date as the Cuban leader, Aug. 13. Gonzalez, who attended kindergarten in Indiana, was 5 years old when the family left that area for Cuba, but his mother said he still can remember Chicago's parks and cold winters.
"He was very friendly as a boy," said Schwerert, who has two other sons besides her imprisoned eldest. "He learned the language very quickly."
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