Today, October 13, 2009, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida imposed a new sentence to Antonio Guerrero, unjustly imprisoned for more that 11 years in Florence, Colorado, one of the toughest detention facilities, dubbed by the Guinness World Records as the most secure prison in the world, where the inmates are in solitary confinement for most of the day, and that is labelled by some as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies" and its prison regimen as “a living tomb”.

As it is known, Antonio had been initially condemned by that same court to a life sentence plus 10 years. That sentence was considered excessive, contrary to the legal rules currently in force and was vacated by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, establishing that the defendant did not gather or transmit any information related to the national security of the United States.

The new sentence of 262 months (nearly 22-year) of prison is the result of international solidarity and the tenacious effort of his defense counsel, Leonard Weinglass, and although it is not as absurdly exorbitant as the one before, it is also unjust. It’s time to intensify the struggle for the immediate freedom of our five compatriots.

This episode is one of the so many proofs that confirm the absolute arbitrariness of the process followed against who are imprisoned in the United States only and exclusively for fighting anti-Cuban terrorism promoted by US authorities. The irrational disproportion of the originally imposed sentences was one of the issues reclaimed by the defense regarding to which it was possible to reach a partial, limited and contradictory achievement. In 2008 the Atlanta Court of Appeals ratified the unfair guilty verdicts of the Five, annulled the sentences of Antonio, Ramón and Fernando and remanded for resentencing.

As an expression of the strange way of doing justice in that country, the Court of Appeals recognized that in spite of the fact that Gerardo Hernández Nordelo deserves be resentenced, they decided not to do that and ratified the cruel sentence of two lives plus 15 years.

Gerardo, Ramón, Antonio, Fernando and René are innocent and should never have been deprived of freedom. Every day that they remain in prison will be a shameful confirmation of the US Administration complicity with terrorism.