The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and President Raul Castro were elected honoray delegates to the Eighth Congress of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), reported today the newspaper Juventud Rebelde .During a meeting in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, were also elected to the event, schedule for September, the five Cubans tried and convicted in the United States to arbitrary sentences in prison for fighting terrorism.

Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero and Rene Gonzalez were arrested in Miami in 1998 for warning their country about violent group plans based in Florida, whose actions have caused more than five thousand people dead and disabled in this country in the last half century.

René remains in Cuba, in exchange for giving up his U.S. citizenship, a requirement set by the judicial authorities to modify conditions of supervised release that should meet after his release from prison in 2011.

The meeting discussed strengthening the inner workings, the role of area coordinators and presidents of the CDR, its example and leadership directly responsible for the participation and mobilization of the masses in the work of the community.

Delegates also referred to confronting social indiscipline and illegal, as well as the political and ideological work and the role of the family in the formation of values, the publication notes.

In the provincial assembly presented the members of Santiago delegation to the national meeting.