The Guatemalan Coordinating Committee of Solidarity with Cuba and the Peoples will hold an activity today in this capital, in support of the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly held in the United States.

U.S. authorities detained Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez and Antonio Guerrero in September 1998, for alerting their country on terrorist actions planned by hostile groups operating in southern Florida.

Gerardo, Ramon, Antonio and Fernando still remain in prison, while Rene is being forced to spend three years in that northern country under supervised release, despite having completed his sentences.

The Guatemalan Coordinating Committee of Solidarity with Cuba and the People brings together members of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity and New National Alternative (ANN) parties, plus a dozen social groups.

This group organized a meeting on March 11 about The Five, as they are internationally known, in the School of History's theater at the University of San Carlos, the oldest and most prestigious institutions of its kind in this Central American country.

Gerardo, Rene, Ramon, Fernando and Antonio fought terrorism from the United States, Enrique Alvarez, Secretary of International Relations of ANN, said then.

Meanwhile, Julio Almaguer, third secretary of the Cuban embassy in Guatemala, said that the most striking feature of the case with the Five is that none were capable of showing that they carried out actions against the United States.