THE mothers of the five Cubans imprisoned for the last three years in
                   Miami jails, accused of espionage, all expressed their confidence that
                   "justice will be done" in the manipulated trial recently completed,
                   whose sentencing hearings began this Monday.

                   In a televised roundtable on the subject of the five Cubans,
                   broadcast from a Cuban TV studio and attended by President Fidel
                   Castro, three of the mothers and the daughter of one of the accused
                   were interviewed by phone, after they had visited their loved ones in
                   prison.

                   René González, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón
                   Labañino and Fernando González, detained in the United States since
                   1998, have been found guilty of espionage in a rigged trial, when in
                   fact their only purpose was to obtain information about terrorist
                   groups in Florida, in order to protect their country from violent
                   attacks.

                   Irma Sehwehert, René González’s mother, said that the encounter
                   with her son "was very beautiful. We all have great and absolute
                   confidence that sooner or later justice will prevail," she stated.

                   "He’s very certain of that, and it couldn’t be any other way, because
                   ultimately they’re innocent, they haven’t done anything to anybody."

                   For her part, Carmen Nordelo, mother of Gerardo Hernández, said
                   she was "very moved" by the reunion, and noted that her son "has
                   faith and trusts that honesty and justice will prevail."

                   Meanwhile, Magalis Llort, mother of Fernando González, explained
                   that "he’s aware that some very harsh days await him, in the sense
                   that the conditions there are still unfavorable. But nonetheless, they
                   are satisfied because they are convinced that they did what they had
                   to do."

                   Finally, Irma González, René González’s daughter, said that the
                   encounter with her father "was marvelous" and that he told her "not
                   to be concerned, that he was sure that sooner or later justice would
                   triumph." She added that "his conscience was clear because they had
                   no intention of carrying out any terrorist act in the United States; on
                   the contrary, they were trying to protect their people from acts of
                   that kind."

                   Randy Alonso, moderator of the roundtable, stated, "The rigged trial;
                   the enormous pressures on the part of the Cuban-American mafia in
                   Miami and the lies spread by the media; the role of pro-terror
                   members of Congress Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln Díaz-Balart;
                   and the complicity of FBI authorities do not augur anything positive in
                   the hearings related to the sentencing of our valiant compatriots.
                   Three of them could even be sentenced to life in prison."