(21 May 2003)
1. Wide shot of home exterior
2. Neighbours in street
3. Interior of home
4. Close-up picture of Lorenzo Copello Castillo, executed hijacker
5. Close-up death certificate
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ramona Copello Castillo,Lorenzo Copello's mother:
"That's a lie! He was in prison only once and it was for what they call here 'being dangerous' and we all know that was invented by Fidel."
7. Cutaway of Copello speaking with press
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ramona Copello Castillo, Lorenzo Copello's mother:
"A Colonel told me, 'You need to wait, Mama, for these papers to go and come back from the Council of State.' And this was Thursday afternoon and by Friday morning the boys were dead. Can I continue to live here in this country with what they have done to me? Can I continue? "
9. Close-up sentencing papers of Lorenzo Copello
10.Close-up stamp and date and signature on sentence
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ramona Copello Castillo, Lorenzo Copello's mother:
"What can I say to the United States? They need to find the way to get me there so I can escape, so I can remain alive. That's what I would say to them. Let's see if they let me live and my sons, too and my sister because I will not leave her behind. If I have to leave her behind I will stay too so that they can kill her along with me."
12. Cutaway Copello Castillo with press
13. Wide exterior Copello home
STORYLINE:
The mother of a recently executed Cuban hijacker says she no longer wishes to remain in Cuba and would like the US Government to help her relocate to the United States.
Ramona Copello Castillo, mother of Lorenzo Copello, one of three men executed in Havana last April for the attempted hijacking of a ferryboat, says she no longer trusts the Castro regime and needs to go stateside in order to "remain alive".
During an interview at her home, Copello Castillo showed reporters her son's sentencing papers and death certificate.
"I was told these papers had to go and come back from the Council of State. That was a Thursday afternoon. By Friday morning the boys were dead", Copello said.
The death certificate does not specify a cause of death, it only says that death occurred in a military unit.
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