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Statement of Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez. |
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Antonio
Guerrero
Birthday: October 16 |
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Write to him:
Antonio Guerrero
#58741-004
U.S.P. Florence
P.O. Box 7500
Florence CO 81226
U.S.A. |
"... My beloved brothers and I must be
unjustly kept in prison, but there we shall not cease from defending the
cause and the principles we have embraced."
Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez
was born in the city of Miami on October 16, 1958. His parents were both
from Cuba and immediately after the initiation of the Cuban Revolution in
1959, they returned to Cuba. In 1983 Guerrero graduated as airfield
construction engineer in Kiev, Ukraine. The expansion of the Santiago de
Cuba International Airport was the most important work in which he was
involved. Guerrero is a poet and has penned a considerable number of poems,
a selection of which has been published in English and Spanish under the
title "Desde Mi Altura" (From My Altitude). Guerrero has become an
accomplished artist and his art and poetry can be viewed on this website. He
has two sons, 20-year-old Antonio, and 15-year-old Gabriel. He was sentenced
to life imprisonment plus 10 years, and is in U.S.P. Florence, Colorado.
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Charged with:
a.
Conspiracy to commit crimes against the United
States: carries a maximum five-year term.
b.
Conspiracy to commit
espionage: carries a maximum life term.
c.
Conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign
agent: carries a maximum 10-year term
Without taking into
consideration any extenuating circumstances, the
maximum penalty was imposed on Antonio for every
infraction of which he was found guilty. This
shows the unmeasured and irrational nature of
the penalties. According to U.S. law a maximum
life sentence can be imposed in the event the
defendant is proved to be potentially dangerous,
aggressive or open to recidivism. At no point
did the judge, jury or Public Prosecutor ever
complain about the behavior of the accused, nor
was there any evidence to suggest that he had
not maintained high moral and ethical conduct
during the entire period he lived in the USA.
The issue of necessity was not even considered
to be an extenuating circumstance.
The charges of
a) Conspiring to
commit crimes against the United States
and b)
Conspiring to commit acts of espionage
are practically the same. Yet the maximum
penalty was applied on both counts. No proof
exists to indicate any conspiracy to commit a
crime. As to the espionage charge, in what must
be without a precedent, Antonio was convicted
without proof or witnesses to indicate that he
had sought or obtained information that could be
detrimental to the USA. In fact, there were
witnesses that specifically denied he had
practiced espionage: Generals Clapper, Whilelm
and Atkeson, Admiral Carroll and Colonel
Buckner.
As far as
c) Conspiracy to
act as an unregistered foreign agent
is concerned, to be convicted of this charge the
accused had to have demonstrated that he knew of
this law beforehand. Although in general not
knowing the law does not relieve a citizen of
their civic responsibilities, there are unusual
cases such as this where an accused has been
exonerated because the applicable statute was
not common knowledge.
The civil and political
rights of Antonio Guerrero, a US citizen by
birth, were thereby violated.
Life Sentence
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