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Day 2402 in Prison

Caseros Prison,
August 28, 1995

Michael and all the solidary sisters and brothers of the USA:

Peace and Goodness!

Dear little brothers and sisters: you make me ashamed! You are too good to me! I don't deserve so much love and so much effort! Besides the admirable Korean brother Kim-Sum-Myung, with his 44 years in terrible conditions (could you get me his address so I could write to him? He is a saint!), we are almost partying! I almost feel ashamed to say that I am a prisoner.

Your postcards continue arriving, full of love, tenderness, hope and happiness and prayers!!! They are already over 1500... oh! Thank you, beloved ones!

...I continue writing down the return addresses... but if you can transmit my gratitude to everyone... it would be wonderful! I could only express it hugging and kissing each one of you, with tears of gratitude and happiness, as I realize that in the USA there are such magnificent people as you! Thanks to ALL OF YOU!!!

As a good nag: you already know that much more than my freedom I want that of my compañeros who deserve it and need it more than I who -thanks to faith- even here I am happy and I think I could even be it -thanks to God Himself!- almost as much as dear Kim-Sum-Myung!

Then, dear saintly friends from the USA, I beg you -again- to extend within your possibilities, your pressure from the "prompt report" before the IACHR [Inter-American Commission of Human Rights], that meets in September, and before our Government, demanding justice for the 21 of us who are prisoners.

Dear brothers, sisters, friends: thank you, thank you, thank you! May Papa-God, God love, bless you, enlighten you and strengthen you! Only He knows how much I thank you for what you do!...

A fraternal and grateful kiss to each one of you!

Fray Antonio Puigjane

PS. It is an undeserved honor to be recognized as a prisoner of conscience by AI...


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