The U.S. government focused its media campaign against the five Cuban antiterrorists sentenced in that country on manipulating the downing of two small planes which violated the island's sovereignty, said Ricardo Alarcon, president of the national assembly (parliament).

An article published by the portal Antiterroristas.cu in Internet, the president of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba called the attention on the weight of that incident in the crusade unleashed by Washington paid journalists to promote a hostile environment aimed at achieving severe sentences for The Five.

Gerardo Hernández, René González, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino and Fernando González were sentences ranging from two life sentences plus 15 years (in the case of Gerardo) after their monitoring of violent groups which acted with impunity against Cuba from Miami.

On February 24, 1996, an unfortunate incident occurred facing the Havana coastline avenue.

Two light aircrafts belonging to a Miami terrorist group were downed after violating national air space, actions they had repeated dozens of time before that day, recalls Alarcón.

Over three years after that, the U.S. government in a biased and irresponsible way, used it to support charge 3 (conspire to commit murder), imposed only on Gerardo.

That charge practically concentrated the process against the antiterrorists detained in 1998, four of them still in prison, while Rene has to stay in US soil in a supervised freedom regime, denounced by activists and solidarity groups as an extra punishment and example of cruelty.

Coverage by the media curiously focused on Charge 3, it can be shown without trace of a doubt the accusation was the result of a conspiracy in which government-paid journalists played a decisive role.

Recently, Gerardo's defense presented the Court of Appeals and Affidávit revealing details of payments made to reporters in Miami by the government, with the objective to provoke a scenario capable to influence the jury and the community against the Five.

Only The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald published one thousand 111 notes in 194 days, ending on June 8, 2001, when the Five were declared guilty.

About the paid journalists, they are described as paid agents for their mission of influencing the jury and public opinion.

The list includes Pablo Alfonso, Humberto Cortina, Julio Estorino, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Olance Nogueras, Enrique Encinosa, Ariel Remos, Luis Aguilar, Wilfredo Cancio, Helen Ferre, Caridad Roque, Enrique Patterson and Alberto Muller.

All, without exceptions, were members or closely related to organizations that in Miami promote violence and terrorism and some of them, confessed and convicted terrorists, denounced the head of the Cuban parliament.