Cuban agent who served 13 years in prison in the United States, and his role in the process of a spy network, to give up his American citizens begin on Monday, so that he can stay in Cuba.
Rene Gonzalez is a five-person sentenced in the case of controversial trial in 2001 of conspiring to spy on Cuban exile groups and U.S. military activities in Florida is known as part of the "Wasp Network spy network.", Long plagued U.S. relations with Cuba.
Gonzalez, who was born in Chicago and held dual US-Cuban citizen, told reporters that U.S. interests in Havana, fill out the form and answer questions, emerging process is not yet completed.
He will still have a formal waiver of citizens before the officials of the U.S. diplomatic posts, and then wait for approval, he said, should occur on May 16.
"I am pleased that in Cuba, with my family, and into their own I belong to society," he said as onlookers applauded called his name in the streets and on the balcony of the apartment above.
When he first came to the United States diplomatic Gonzalez in a black government car three dozen onlookers waved, clasped his hands over his head victory. He was wearing a short-sleeved blue plaid shirt and black pants informal.
He was the first Cuban called the "Five Heroes" in order to complete his sentence and return to the leadership of the Communist Party of the island.
56-year-old Gonzalez, who has a wife and two children in Havana, leave the prison in October 2011 and has services in Florida, a three-year trial period. He returned to the leadership of the Communist Party of the island on April 22 to attend a memorial service for his late father temporarily.
U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard has been granted access to the condition that he must be returned within two weeks Florida a few weeks ago. But on Friday, the ruling motion by his lawyer, she said, he can stay in Cuba, if he renounced his U.S. citizenship.
By doing so, he foreswears the right to return to the United States, where he spent his first years of life.
The United States does not oppose
In its previous location, Gonzalez completed his full three years probation reversal, the U.S. government did not oppose.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, told reporters during a visit to Brazil on Monday said there is no indication that the resolution of the case will affect the status of U.S. contractor Alan Gross, who is 15 years illegally installed Internet Service imprisonment in the service of the Jewish community in Havana Cuba.
Some people hope it can help building more lenient treatment, but Rodriguez said Gonzalez was serving a building, sentenced to jail since December 2009, and no.
"This is the case of an applicable law, I do not see the relationship between the two cases, therefore," he said in Brasilia.
Cuba has hinted at the possible exchange of the "Cuban Five" building, but the United States has rejected the idea.
Repeat government has disclosed before, Rodriguez said Cuba has told Washington that it is open to negotiations, find a humanitarian solution, construction and four Cubans.
The case of the Cuban Five little-known outside the Cuban exile community in the United States, but the Cuban government to release photos of their national cause men, the plaster national word "Volveran" - they will return - the bottom of their image.
Cuban agents were unjustly convicted and excessive punishment, because they just collect information planning actions against the island of Key West, Florida, 90 miles from the Cuban exile groups.
Trial in Miami exile community centers and against the Cuban government, especially the former leader Fidel Castro and President Raul Castro hotbed.
Gonzalez's one of the co-defendants is the double life imprisonment, he participated in the shooting of two U.S. aircraft flight organization in exile in 1996, and dropped anti-government leaflets over Havana. The other three services within the scope of the sentence, from 18 to 30 years old.
, "Gonzalez said:" a person to continue the fight to get them out of prison, this is an unjust, this is a crime, they are prisoners.
"In Cuba, we need them," he said.
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