HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 23 (AIN) The Cuban people thanked three Argentineans for climbing the Aconcagua, Americas’ highest peak, to place on its summit a flag with a sign claiming for the release of the five Cuban revolutionaries unfairly imprisoned in the United States.

The gratitude of the Cuban people was expressed by ambassador to Argentina Aramis Fuente Hernandez in a meeting in the headquarters of the Cuban diplomatic mission in Buenos Aires, Prensa Latina reported.

Fuente described as “an extraordinary deed” the gesture of radio and TV host Santiago Vega and social activist Alcides Bonavitta, who, with the support in the rearguard of Aldo Bonavitta, climed one the world's seven highest elevations to express their rejection to the injustice committed by the US against Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, known as the Cuban Five.

“You took not only a flag up to the Roof of America, but also a conviction and an ideal,” the Cuban ambassador said. He went on to speak about the aggressions and terrorist acts conducted from the United States against Cuba and which the Cuban Five were trying to stop.

Fuente added that the Argentineans are well aware of the fight of the Cuban people against such criminal actions because they were through a similar situation during the dictatorship and the CIA plan of a series coup d’etats perpetrated across Latin America, known as the Condor Operation.

Several personalities attended the meeting in the Cuban embassy including political
scientist and writer Atilio Boron, jurist Carlos Zamorano and the general coordinator of the Free the Five International Committee, Graciela Ramirez.

Recently, the young mountain climbers received a message from the Cuban Five who thanked them for their gesture.