Madrid, September 18 (PL).- Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez dedicated the show to his compatriots, the five Cuban prisoners in the United States, in front of the mass attendance to the Spanish Communist Party festival in Casa Campo.

Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, Rene Gonzalez Sehwerert, Antonio Guerrero Rodriguez, Fernando Gonzalez Llort and Ramon Labañino Salazar were in his mind while he performed songs including those of his latest album "Cita con Angeles."

As it happened in his recitals in Barcelona, Salamanca, San Sebastian and Vigo, where the shows were sold-out long before and the arenas were crowded, the audience here in Madrid went to the places early, even though the concert started by midnight.

The five Cuban heroes, prisoners of the empire, as Silvio introduced them, are serving ridiculous sentences including more than one life prison, for fighting against the Miami-based Cuban-origin terrorist mafia.

An abominable incident just happened in Panama, where former-President Mireya Moscoso, following orders from the United States, pardoned the four terrorists who tried to kill President Fidel Castro during the 10th Ibero-American summit.

The US government, alleged champion of the war against terrorism, officially welcomed three of them in Miami.

The fourth, mastermind of the attack of Cubana de Aviacion plane in the air by the coasts of Barbados, where 73 passengers died, sinister Luis Posada Carriles is hiding somewhere in Central America.

Silvio denounced this double standard attitude of Washington"s administration, curiously selective for terrorism, and accused them of massacring Iraq with high tech, as he does in one of the 11 songs included in Cita con Angeles.

"Expedicion" and "Sueño con serpientes," "Alabanzas" and the title song, alluding to the "civil rights mushroom / of the ghost that inhabit / Baghdad," were applauded by the audience.

Joined by Trovarroco string trio, Silvio also sang some of his classics, such as "Playa Giron," "Ojala," "Pequeña serenata diurna," "Mi lecho esta tendido," "Te amare" and "Requiem," requested by the audience.

(Trabajadores) 18 September 2004