>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:10:03 -0500 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: AN APPEAL TO FRIENDS OF CUBA > >AN APPEAL TO FRIENDS OF CUBA > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > >A CALL TO CUBA'S FRIENDS > >On his arrival in the Republic of Panama to participate at the 10th >Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government on November 17, >President Fidel Castro publicly denounced a new Cuban American National >Foundation (CANF) plan to assassinate him. He identified the leader of the >group involved in the assassination attempt as Luis Posada Carriles, a >well-known international terrorist of Cuban origin. Relevant information was >supplied to the Panamanian security forces enabling them to apprehend this >criminal and his accomplices a few hours later. > >Once again, the enemies of the Revolution have shown that they have no >scruples about using political assassination as a means of achieving their >nefarious objectives. Once again, it was not only the leader of the Cuban >Revolution whose life was endangered, but the lives of all the participating >heads of state, their delegations and, according to the latest news >received, the lives of around 1,000 students at Panama University who were >due to meet with them. The terrorists were found to have in their possession >a diagram gof the university campus and 20 kilograms of high-powered C4 >plastic explosive. > >Luis Posada Carriles' criminal record is extensive and shameful. He is >linked to numerous assassination attempts on Comrade Fidel and has been >behind many attacks on Cuban missions and officials in other countries. He >was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and led several >different terrorist groups in perpetrating crimes. He was the mastermind >behind the most monstrous crime of all: the explosion of a Cubana airliner >in full flight, with 73 passengers on board. Among these were the entire >Cuban junior fencing team, returning home after winning all the gold medals >at the Central American Games in Venezuela. > >He was imprisoned for this outrage, but escaped from a Venezuelan prison >thanks to material and financial support from the CANF and the CIA. Since >that time, he has been living in Central America and played a major role in >financing and supplying the Nicaraguan contras. Working under the orders of >Oliver North and receiving a salary from the U.S. State Department, he >played an important part in the activities later revealed in the Iran-Contra >scandal. With the support of the CANF, he has been linked to various >assassination attempts on Fidel at all the Ibero-American summits. He was >also responsible for the placement of bombs in 1997 in various Cuban tourist >hotels and installations, for which he used El Salvadoran and Guatemalan >mercenaries. These crimes resulted in the death of an Italian tourist and >numerous injuries. > >A person with such a horrific history of criminality and terrorism cannot go >unpunished. The time has come for him to be tried and sentenced. He must not >be allowed to escape justice once more. > >For this reason, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples calls on >all Cuba solidarity organizations, on the many millions of friends of the >Cuban Revolution, on all the world's honest men and women, to mobilize in >order to prevent such impunity. > >Luis Posada Carriles and his accomplices must be extradited to Cuba. Cuban >justice has the right to judge his crimes because they were committed >against the Cuban people and the majority of his victims were Cubans. We >give an absolute guarantee that a fair trial will take place and agree to >the participation of an international tribunal, so that his repugnant >genocidal crimes can be judged. > >We call for a mobilization of public opinion. The united force of our >peoples must not allow complicit decisions to be made over these crimes. > >The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples >21 November 2000 > > >================================================================= > NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems > Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us > 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 > http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >================================================================= > >nytcari-11.22.00-03:09:34-12622 > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
