Cuban agent who served 13 years in the United States itself trapped imprisoned, his role in a spy ring showed off renounce his U.S. citizenship certificate on Friday and said that he is now just a "Cuban patriot."
For Rene Gonzalez, who was born in Chicago, but grew up in Cuba, holds dual US-Cuban citizen, certificate meant that he was the first one requested by the Government of Cuba "Five Heroes" in order to complete his sentence and return to the island since the 1990s, the United States-Cuban relations have plagued the case.
He agreed to give up his American citizenship, the United States Interests Section in Havana this week in Florida in exchange for having a three-year parole up to the end, serve the remainder of his sentence.
Gonzalez, 56, said: "I am only a citizen of Cuba, the Cuban patriots, which in all cases, I have been" a news conference in Havana, he lifted his last Thursday received certificates.
Man was known as the "Cuban Five" were convicted in the United States spy on Cuban exile groups conspiracy trial and the U.S. military's activities in Florida as part of the Cuban spy network support is called "Wasp Network in 2001 in the United States."
Gonzalez flew to Florida, in 1990, allegedly stolen crop spraying pesticides, posing as defectors from the communist island.
The case of the Cuban exile community in the United States outside the little-known, but it is a country in the cause of Cuba's five, and the word "Volveran" - they will return - Photo posted everywhere.
Cuba said that agents were unjustly convicted and excessive punishment, they just gather information for planning operations against Florida Key West Island 90 miles Cuban exile groups.
Trial in Miami, the Cuban exile community centers and against the government, especially the former leader Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro, President of the hotbed.
, A lanky, bearded former military pilots, Gonzalez said he enjoyed Havana once again walk in the street, and received the Cuban people's feelings, but he has not really free, because his four colleagues are still imprisoned in the United States.
"From the first day, the five of us, I do not think we are a free, until my four brothers return," Gonzalez said, accompanied by his wife, Olga Sarah Nueva, the international press center in Havana.
Gonzalez is one of the co-defendants serve a double life sentence for his part in the shooting in 1996, two U.S. aircraft exile organization dropped anti-government leaflets over Havana. The other three are serving sentences ranging from 18 years old to 30 years old.
Gonzalez, Spanish and English, expressed in his undercover work, in exile in Miami, he found that most of the "people not bad", but "some philosophical confrontation between Cuba and the United States, which is very dangerous. "
Create conflict
"There are some people, some of them members of Congress, will not rest until they create a conflict between Cuba and the United States, I want to say anything to these people," he said, yes, they're looking for is a tragedy.
"In Miami's population structure is changing," Gonzalez said. "I hope that one day the philosophy of confrontation, provocation, terrorism against Cuba and to seek war between Cuba and the United States will be a thing of the past."
Some people explain U.S. trading, allowing Gonzalez to stay in Cuba an indication that something is in the works free jailed U.S. contractor Alan Gross, is serving a 15 year sentence, install Internet network considered U.S. program in Cuba Cuba Jewish subversive.
However, Gonzalez said, U.S. prosecutors agreed, because they had "run out of excuses" against it, rather than as a "humanitarian gesture", they hope Cuba will return.
He said the case of Maori, as a global solution to the problems there are differences, Cuba and the United States since 1959 Fidel Castro's revolution part should be addressed.
Cuba has hinted a possible exchange of the "Cuban Five" building, but the United States has rejected the idea.
Gonzalez said that he and his wife and two daughters to understand their own and want to participate in Cuba's Soviet-style economic modernization, Raul Castro succeeded his brother Fidel Castro in 2008 introduced reforms.
Despite the high price of Gonzalez to pay for their actions, he said he did not regret it.
"I have no regrets, I grew up in a country where the bomb exploded," he said. "My desire is good between the United States and Cuba relations."
 
 



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