2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/171405We show that a closed orientable Riemannian $n$-manifold, $n \ge 5$, with positive isotropic curvature and free fundamental group is homeomorphic to the connected sum of copies of $S^{n-1} \times S^1$.5 Pages. To appear in Proc. of AMSDifferential Geometrytext