He always wanted to be a pilot, however, when he got his chance, he put before a duty he always considered could not be postponed. He first left, due to hepatitis, the cadet school Camilo Cienfuegos in secondary education. Later, while he was a member of the Young Communist League he joins the Manuel Ascunce Domenech pedagogical organization, and when he was already teaching in the Junior High School "República Socialista de Rumania" in the countryside he is called to enlist.

He volunteered to the army according to his US nationality though that meant postponing once again his ambition of becoming a pilot.

Nevertheless, after some time, he was glad with his new specialty in the military service. His love for the tank on which he worked at the military unit made him choose the Day of the Tank operator, April 17, to marry Olga Salanueva Arango , his wife and mother of his two children: Irmita and Ivett.

At the end of that phase of his life, he is given excellent grades and the ticket he so much longed for to the Aviation school, but, once again, he postponed his dream when he knew about his military unit going to the People's Republic of Angola to fight for the independence of that country.

He went in an internationalist mission to Angola and when he returned he finally became a pilot at the Carlos Ulloa Aviation School. He worked as flying instructor in the Military Patriotic Education Society. He was flight chief at the San Nicolás de Bari air base and head of the aeronautic sports section.

He becomes a member of the Communist Party in 1990. Later that year he left to the USA. His stories of the fixed trial performed in Miami, where he was unfairly sentenced together with other four compatriots, revealed the exceptional qualities he has as a writer and journalist.

His mother's name is Irma Sehwerert Mileham and his father's name is Cándido René González .

THE MISSION

René González case, as that of the other four Cuban imprisoned in Miami accused of jeopardizing US national security, including other charges, is another Washington's political vendetta against Cuban revolution.

Member of the Young Communist League (UJC) National Committee Randy Alonso stated before the delegates to the 2nd Youth Meeting Cuba-US that the five Cuban imprisoned as terrible spies in US prisons only had as mission to compile information on the terrorist plans of anti-Cuban groups operating from Florida.

He expounded that to understand the mission they carried out on US territory it was necessary to analyze the different administration's indifference concerning denounces about criminal plans against Cuba.

Attacks and terrorist actions against Cuba since 1959 -year of the Revolution's Victory-caused death to more than three thousand Cubans and injuries to a similar number, as well as damages estimated in around 100 billion dollars, he added.

Alonso, who also hosts a TV show about Cuban society's interesting top themes explained the circumstances in which the five Cubans were arrested in September 1998 and denounced that the "political and manipulated" trial was actually against the Cuban revolution.

On that year 1998, added the youth leader, during a hearing in the Pentagon it was said that Cuba was not representing a menace to the USA. Even drug tsar (Barry) McCafrey stated that the Caribbean nation was no port of call for drug dealers due to the government actions to fight that problem.

However, added Randy, two months after (July 1998) Cuba delivered to Washington proofs of the terrorist activity organized by right wing groups settled in Miami, as the Cuban American Foundation, The FBI answered with the arrest of the five Cubans.

According to Alonso, The Cuban Ministry of Interior delivered enough material on the counterrevolutionary activity organized and financed in that country, together with recordings on similar plans, thanks in part to the work of these five arrested men.

Only in the past decade, when the island was going through its worst economic crisis after the triumph of the revolution in 1959, made even worse with the embargo from Washington, were stopped 170 terrorist actions, including plans to kill President Fidel Castro.

Alonso also said that the five Cubans arrested in Miami, three of which were given life sentences, did gathered information on terrorism towards their country, but never attempted against the US national security because, besides, they did not have access to classified information.

"They worked and lived the best they could, they did not receive a great salary and did not have access to strategic programs of that country" said the student leader.

ACCUSATION

The first accusation presented by the prosecutor was only nine pages long, where barely are found references to facts, adjectives and descriptions prevailing. It was a move to win some time until a second accusation was presented, in May 1999, eight months after the arrest. It is the moment when the charge on conspiracy to murder is presented, based on the alleged involvement of one of the accused, Gerardo, on the shooting down of the airplanes which violated Cuban airspace in February 1996.

The accusation, as it is known, had been the main issue of the terrorist mafia and of Miami's press incessant and scandalous campaigns. To this point, the second accusation already counts on 40 pages, with charges to open a process and it is a little bit more documented, aimed to typify the alleged actions committed, but it has the flavor of the charge that has been "cooked" on slow fire, during 8 months, to please Cuba's enemies. With it, it has been proved beyond objections that it is a political trial, clearly faked and manipulated.

To sum up, there are five charges: the first, conspiracy, which consists of an agreement to commit crime against United States or deceive this nation.

The second charge is espionage, that is, to compile information and send it out. But in that charge it is assumed that the information is something regarding the security of the United States or a supposed collaboration with a foreign country to harm the United States.

The third charge is conspiracy to murder. Premeditated conspiracy is an agreement to deliberately carry out the death of one or more people. This is what Gerardo was charged with, for the alleged crime of conspiracy on the shooting down of the airplanes.

The fourth charge is faking documents or issuing false statements before government authorities to get documents.

And the last charge, more formal than the other, the one of being foreign agent, consisting of acting as a foreign government's agent without being diplomat or communicating it to US General Attorney. In the way the crime is typified on US penal code, the crime is not in being a foreign agent, but in being a foreign agent without being identified.

SANCTION

A federal court of Florida condemned on December 14 2001 René González , to 15 years of imprisonment. He is one of the five Cubans arrested in the United States, accused with endangering the national security of that country.

González was sentenced to 10 years because, according to the prosecution, he did not registered himself as an agent of a foreign country in the USA and to five more years for conspiracy to spy.

That week, the same judge, Joan Lenard, imposed life sentences to Gerardo Hernández and Ramón Labañino , charged with attempting to enter US military facilities and infiltrate anti-Cuban groups based in Miami. Fernando González was sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment, while Antonio Guerrero was imposed a life sentence and other two additional sentences of five years each.

The Cuban government claims that those five people only compiled information to prevent terrorist actions organized and carried out against Cuba from the US territory by anti Cuban groups settled in Miami. According to that statement the Cuban government considers them as patriots and fighters against terrorism.

Cuba claims that those sentence hearings were manipulated and influenced by the Cuban American ultra right wing and described the trial as being "fixed, uninformed and performed under a colossal pressure".

An official note read on Cuban television denounced that "the vengeance and ignominy dance is being performed in Miami, two courageous Cuban patriots, Gerardo Hernández and Ramón Labañino have received life sentences for the serious crime of protecting their people from death".

THE PRISON

René González is serving his sentence of 15 years of imprisonment in a prison of Pennsylvania, purposely away from the rest of his comrades, as if the physical distance could destroy the union among people which main link are their shared ideas and patriotism.

During a discussion on a Cuban TV panel, the participants compared the conditions of this fighter against terrorism with the luxurious prisons in which such proven and confessed terrorists as anti-Cuban Luis Posada Carriles receive the visits of his Mafioso friends from Miami, in Panama, where they weigh with them new terrorist actions against Cuba.

The five young Cubans sentenced in Miami were first moved, under strong watch, to prisons in Atlanta and Oklahoma and from there taken to their final prisons in different and far apart states.

"Strongly handcuffed, with not enough clothes to protect them from cold weather, thirsty and hungry during the transfer and later suffering the harsh conditions of the hole (isolation cells), our five heroes keep their high moral and untouched honor. Nothing will make them surrender" stated journalist Randy Alonso, moderator at a roundtable broadcasted by Cuban Television.

President Fidel Castro stated on June 23 2001 that those five imprisoned Cubans are political prisoners.