>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) >from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >subject: Cuban Compensation Claim -People v. US plus etc > � Copyright GRANMA INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL EDITION. La Havana. Cuba > COMPENSATION CLAIM AGAINST THE UNITED STATES > >Obsessive plans to assassinate Fidel > > Political assassination is one aspect of state terrorism, >traditionally utilized by the United States against leaders in many >parts of the world. But no other public figure has been the object of >such obsessive and unbridled persecution over 40 years as Cuban >President Fidel Castro, against whom 637 conspiracies have been >detected. > >This was affirmed in evidence given by people's witness Colonel Jos* >P*rez Fernandez, in his exhaustive account of CIA-perpetrated plans >to assassinate the leader of the Cuban Revolution, dating back to >pre-1959, and which were discovered and neutralized by State Security >in some cases, and known of in others. > >As early as December 28, 1958, FBI agent Allen Robert Nye was >captured and detained in the Sierra Maestra, armed with a Remington >caliber 30.06 rifle equipped with a telescopic sight. This man had >been sent to Batista by the U.S. government to assassinate Fidel >Castro. > >In 1959 fresh attempts on Fidel's life were hatched. On March 28 >a CIA-backed plan, prepared by notorious thug Rolando Masferrer, >leader of a terrorist organization in Cuba during the '40s and '50s, >was dismantled. Frank Sturgis, a U.S. citizen who arrived in Cuba in >1958, piloting a boat with arms for the Rebel Army with the objective >of "joining" its ranks, was one of the principal authors of plans to >assassinate Fidel: for fear of discovery he subsequently fled to his >country of origin. > >A 1975 report filed by Frank Church, head of a Senate-appointed >committee investigating governmental intelligence activities, reveals >the participation of U.S. authorities in attempts on the life of >Fidel Castro. Church quoted a secret report drawn up by CIA general >inspector F. S. Earman on May 23, 1967, detailing assassination plans >and FBI proposals for seeking ideal subjects to execute them. > >Attempts mentioned in the report included: presenting Fidel with a >fishing wet suit infected with a lethal bacteria, and a box of >poisoned cigars; and planting an explosive device in a shell located >in the area where the leader of the Revolution used to practice >underwater fishing, among others. > >The witness explained in his statement to the court that those plans >were based on the concept of plausible negotiation, so that the >United States couldn't be accused as planner, instigator and executor >in the case of them being discovered. > >In his report, Perez Fernandez testified on the different ways in >which the hundreds of attempts were devised, taking into >consideration the following variants: visits to social objectives; at >public events and places; or the infiltration of terrorist commandos. > >Many examples were presented at the hearing. These included the >Someillen case, consisting of an attempt to kill Fidel as he passed >through a previously studied avenue in the capital; or the explosive >charges to be detonated by various individuals during the reception >for Ahmed Ben Bela and the welcome for Salvador Allende. > >Firing on the President with bazookas and machine guns was envisaged >in 1961, during a ceremony on the terrace north of the Palace of >the Revolution. Logically, the victims would also include members of >the public, an aspect of the policy of sowing terror and panic among >the population. As one example of the unscrupulous character and >murderous instincts of counterrevolutionary elements, the witness >referred to the May 1980 sabotage of Havana's Le Van Tan day care >center, when 570 children and over 150 workers were present but >where, thanks to a rapid response, no human lives wee lost. > >During the '60s, various assassination attempts on leaders of the >Revolution such as Blas Roca, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Ernesto >Guevara were planned. Some of them were to be used as a decoy to >eliminate Fidel, for example, at the supposed funeral honors for Juan >Marinello. > >The lengthy list of frustrated attempts was followed by actions >mounted in Cartagena, Colombia, in 1994; Argentina, 1995; the Isle of >Margarita (Venezuela) two years later; and, in 1998, Portugal, the >host nation for the Ibero-American heads of state summit. There were >further plans prior to Fidel's visit to the Dominican Republic in >1998. > >The Cuban people has been the principal shield in terms of Fidel�s >physical integrity, the witness stated. That is a far cry from the >alleged police repression claimed by the Revolution's enemies as an >obstacle to the success of their plans. > >P*rez Fern�ndez additionally mentioned the operations of the State >Security forces who, at all times, have acted out of conviction and >with heroism. > > ***************** >� Copyright GRANMA INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL EDITION. La Havana. Cuba -- > The people are still marching > >* Cubans' demand for Elian's return and to live in peace is stronger >than ever. >** Around 40,000 people assemble in Guane � Youth and students head >the protests > > BY ALDO MADRUGA (Granma International staff writer > >More than 40,000 people came together in Guane, in the westernmost >province of Pinar del Rio, to denounce the maneuvers and lies of >Miami counterrevolutionaries who, with the complicity of government >officials and politicians in the U.S. legislative bodies, are >desperately trying to avert the return of the Cuban child kidnapped >in Florida. > >Thus, Cubans have been continuing their vigorous protest, in the eyes >of the world, of the harassment to which they have been subjected for >40 years by the most powerful nation on earth. Cuban mother Gloria >Rubie affirmed in her speech to the rally in Guane that these dirty >and vile aggressions are merely the newest pages in that very long >history. > >Songs, poems, fiery speeches of love for the homeland and the >rejection of injustice, roundtables involving the island's most >outstanding professionals and public figures, and a convincing (and >consistently large) mass presence continue to be the Cuban weapons in >this battle. > >First Vice President Ra�l Castro was among those attending this >rally, which took place in a town closely linked to the country's >independence struggles and, in particular, to General Antonio Maceo, >one of the great forgers of the nation. > >Earlier in the week, a thousand pioneers from junior high schools in >the provinces of City of Havana, Havana, Matanzas, Villa Clara, >Cienfuegos and Pinar del Rio filled Havana's International Conference >Center, the island's principal venue for these meetings, and >sincerely expressed their reasons for demanding the liberation of >little Eli�n Gonz�lez, and called on the U.S. government to let Cuba >live in peace. > >President Fidel Castro was in the audience and, at the end of the >rally, conversed with the pupils and listened to their views on the >current political situation. He embraced Carlos Alexis Gonz�lez, a >visually disabled young student at a Havana school who had read his >speech using the Braille system. > >These and other demonstrations have consistently expressed the >Cubans' rejection of the campaign of lies which has crudely >implicated Cuban diplomats as alleged spies, and prompted the >expulsion from U.S. territory of Jose Imperatori, vice consul at the >Cuban Interests Section in Washington." JC > > *************** >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-eGroups-Return: cubasi-return-3346- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Leninist International" <leninist- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Marxism (LP) List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Cubasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >List-Archive: <http://www.egroups.com/group/cubasi/> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Cuba SI] Cuba and DPRK (KCNA) -north Korea. > > Solidarity with Cuban people's just struggle expressed > > Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun on Sunday dedicated a >signed article to the 40th anniversary of the revolutionary slogan >"Motherland or death, we will win" set forth by Fidel Castro Ruz for >the Cuban people. > Under this slogan of faith the Cuban people have smashed the >U.S.'s repeated moves of aggression, intervention, subversion and >sabotage and honorably defended the fatherland and revolution and the >socialist gains, the paper noted, and said: > Today they are reliably defending socialism in the western >hemisphere,holding higher the slogan "Motherland or death, socialism >or death, we will win," rallied close around the central committee >of the Communist Party of Cuba headed by Fidel Castro Ruz. > From the first day of victory in the Cuban revolution the Korean >people have invariably stood on the side of the Cuban people and >expressed firm solidarity with their just struggle to repulse the >outrageous maneuvers of the U.S. >and defend the gains of the revolution. > This position still remains unchanged. > The United States should change its Cuba policy, squarely >looking at the trend of the times towards support to >the Cuban people's indomitable will and just cause. > The just cause of the Cuban people, who are valiantly struggling >under the slogan of revolution and faith >"Motherland or death, we will win," is sure to win. > >Macdonald Stainsby >Check out the Tao ten point program: http://new.tao.ca >*** >"[A] socialist society represents an advance to a higher stage of >life-that is, a form of society which is economically, socially, >culturally, and ethically superior to a system based upon >production for private profit. History shows that the processes of >social change have nothing in common with silly notions about >"plots" and "conspiracies." The development of human society-from >tribalism to feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism-is brought > about by the needs and aspirations of mankind for a better life." > > -Paul Robeson, Quoted in "Here I Stand" >eGroups.com Home: ><http://www.egroups.com/group/cubasi>http://www.egroups.com/group/cub >asi <http://www.egroups.com>www.egroups.com - Simplifying group >communications. > > ************* >from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >subject: CPA: Cuba: US government on trial >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 >From: Communist Party of Australia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Clancy, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: FROM GUARDIAN > >7. Cuba: US Government on trial > >This past January 3, a group of Cuban social, popular and student >organisations, which encompass practically the whole population, >filed a lawsuit against the government of the United States, in >the Civilian and Administrative Court of the People's Provincial >Court of the City of Havana, for economic damages and injuries >arising from illicit acts that have affected the Cuban people >throughout the entire historical process of the Cuban Revolution. > >The organisations that filed the suit are: the Central Organisation >of Cuban Trade Unions; the National Association of Small Farmers; >the Federation of Cuban Women; the University Students Federation; >the Federation of Senior High School Students; and the Association >of Veterans of the Cuban Revolution. > >For over 40 years, the Cuban people have been subjected to a brutal >policy of hostility and aggression of all kinds on the part of the >United States, whose strategic aim has been nothing less that the >liquidation of the revolutionary process in Cuba and the destruction >of the political, economic and social system freely constructed and >developed by the Cuban people. > >In pursuit of this goal, the United States has resorted to all kinds >of political pressures, attempts at diplomatic isolation, propaganda >campaigns, the encouragement of desertion and illegal emigration, >espionage, economic warfare, and a wide range of physical aggression, >including subversion, terrorist acts, sabotage, biological warfare, >the formation of armed bands, armed infiltrations and incursions into >Cuban territory, the organisation of hundreds of plots to assassinate >the principal leaders of the Revolution, military harassment, the >threat of nuclear annihilation and even direct aggression by a >mercenary army. > >Blockade > >The main weapon used in the economic war has been the application >of a total blockade on economic relations between the United States >and Cuba, which the United States has attempted to extend to Cuba's >economic ties with all other countries through the use of its immense >financial, commercial and technological power. > >As early as January 21, 1959, US representative Wayne Hays declared >that the United States should consider sending troops to Cuba and >imposing economic sanctions, among which he expressly mentioned the >reduction of the Cuban sugar quota and a trade embargo. > >An official document signed April 6, 1960 by L D Mallory, a State >Department senior official, brazenly declares that "the only >foreseeable means of alienating inter support is through >disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and >hardship." > >It goes on to stress that "every possible means should be undertaken >promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba", and proposes "a >line of action which makes the greatest inroads in denying money and >supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about >hunger, desperation and overthrow of government." > >This was, in essence, the basic platform that would support >throughout the following 40 years, and still continues to support, >the US economic blockade against Cuba. > >The opportunity to apply one of these potential measures soon >arose. The country's oil supply depended upon three companies that >controlled the importing and refining of the fuel needed for the >country's functioning, namely Esso and Texaco of the United States >and Shell of the United Kingdom. > >At the request of the US Government, these companies had already >begun to limit imports with the purpose of fully cutting off the >country's fuel supply, if necessary, and thus paralysing the national >economy. In view of this fact, the Revolutionary Government obtained >a commitment from the Soviet Union to guarantee the necessary amounts >of oil at reasonable prices. > >This arrangement, however, frustrated the plot agreed upon >between the oil companies and the US Government, and as a result, the >three companies refused to refine the Soviet crude oil in their >installations. On January 3, 1961, the US Government announced the >breaking of its diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba. On the >31st day of that same month, through a presidential proclamation >signed by Kennedy, the Cuban sugar quota on the US market, which >totaled some three million tons, was eliminated. > >Mercenary invasion > >In April of 1961 came the mercenary invasion of Cuba through the >Bay of Pigs, organised by the CIA and approved by Presidents >Eisenhower and Kennedy. This episode constituted a major political >and military defeat for the US Government. > >In January of 1962, the 8th Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of >Foreign Affairs of the Organisation of American States, in Punta del >Este, marked the culmination of the maneouvres to politically isolate >Cuba within the hemisphere. > >Intense pressure from the US delegation resulted in the approval of a >series of resolutions that led to Cuba's suspension from >the Organisation of American States and the breaking of bilateral >diplomatic relations with the majority of Latin American >countries. Soon afterwards, on February 3, 1962, President Kennedy >decreed the total blockade on trade between the United States and >Cuba. > >The approval of the Torricelli Amendment, included in the 1992 >Defense Appropriations Bill, further intensified the blockade by >prohibiting Cuba from trading with subsidiaries of US companies based >in third countries. For the Cuban economy, the loss of its trade with >these subsidiaries, 90 per cent of which was constituted by food and >medicines, was an additional blow during the critical period of the >early 1990s. > >The approval in March of 1996 of the Helms-Burton Act signified >yet another major step, certainly the most despicable and dangerous >of all, in the escalation of the economic war against Cuba. > >Intimidation of investors > >The Act is aimed at cutting off the flow of investments of >foreign capital into Cuba through the intimidation of actual and >potential investors, using as an instrument of blackmail the >nationalisation of US properties, which was in fact carried out by >the Cuban state within the framework of national and international >legality, and the alleged lack of compensation for these properties. > >It has been made impossible for Cuba to acquire from the United >States, or from US subsidiaries based in third countries, medicines >and medical equipment and supplies that are crucial for the >preservation of human life and that are produced exclusively by US >companies. > >Cuba is not allowed to import so much as an aspirin from the >United States or from any other country in the world, if that aspirin >is produced by a US subsidiary. > >As it has been possible to confirm through the recent >declassification of a secret report drafted in October of 1961 by CIA >Inspector General Lyman Kirkpatrick, the US Government's undercover >operations against Cuba began in the summer of 1959, just weeks after >the signing of the Agrarian Reform Law. > >>From that time onwards, the US Government organised and >directly executed or encouraged, assisted, financed, supported and >tolerated thousands of acts of sabotage and terrorism, carried out by >US agents or by counter-revolutionary elements operating within Cuba >or from US territory with the full knowledge and support of that >country's authorities. > >The crushing defeat of the Bay of Pigs invasion elevated the >destruction of the Cuban Revolution to a position of maximum priority >within the highest levels of US Government. > >Operation Mangosta > >This led to a comprehensive examination and revaluation of the >strategy against Cuba, directed by President Kennedy, which finally >resulted in the formulation of the so-called "Cuba Project", >consisting of a complete reappraisal of the undercover war against >Cuba, organised from that time onwards under what came to be called >Operation Mangosta. > >That operation was discontinued in January of 1963, three months >after the so-called Cuban Missile Crisis. During the time in which >the Operation was in effect, that is, a period of 14 months, a total >of 5,780 terrorist acts against Cuba were registered, including 716 >major acts of sabotage against economic targets. >From 1962 until the >present time, the US Government has resorted to the use of biological >aggression as one of the primary weapons in its dirty war against >Cuba, resulting in considerable damage to the country's economy and, >something even more grave and criminal, to the health and the lives >of Cuban citizens. > >A total of 78 aircraft of various kinds have been subject to >terrorist acts and attempted hijackings and assassinations, often >involving the use of violence and the loss of human life. The list of >aggressions is endless. the above are a few of the aspects included >in the suit filed by a group of Cuban organisations to demand that >the Government of the United States provide reparation >and compensation to the Cuba people in the amount of US$121 billion, >for the damages and injuries suffered by the population as a result >of these acts. > >The lawsuit itself contains detailed, exhaustive and >rigorously documented information on the actions undertaken against >the Cuban people since 1959. A copy of the lawsuit can be acquired >from any Cuban diplomatic mission around the world, and is also >available through the Internet at: http://www.granma.cu/siglo/ "JC > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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