From: "Walter Lippmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:03:33 -0700 To: "CubaNews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CubaNews] Fidel joins round table on Miami verdicts Read this carefully as it has lots of very specific details to show why Cuba feels it must do everything it can to find out about actions being taken against it these past forty years. ____________________ Cubans Unfairly Arrested in Miami, were defending their Country from Terrorism Havana, June 20 (AIN) Meanwhile the United States do not act upon one of at least the facts denounced or condemned, the criminals walking in Miami, Cuba has the whole right of looking for information to defend its people's life, because life is the reason of being of the Revolution. That conclusion was reiterated at the informative round table that counted with the presence of the Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro. The round table reflected how the five valuable revolutionary men risked their lives right in the entails of the monster to discover and inform the terrorists plans of the Anti Cuban Mafia, they are : Ren� Gonz�lez, Ram�n Labanino, Fern�ndo Gonz�lez, Antonio Guerrero and Gerardo Hern�ndez who were found guilty by a previous prejudice jury, which was ill informed and under colossal pressure by the authorities at Miami, besides the mass media and the poisonous atmosphere at Florida. They could be condemned by their rest of their lives in the hostile and inhumane jails of USA. A summary of the main actions against Cuba at the 90 decade and the revelation of the capture of a team, in April, pretending to go under cover inside the country in order to carry out terrorist actions, allowed the panelists to stay clear the reasons that justified the action of the young combatants jailed at USA. That is how , year 1993 was recalled by the panel, a difficult year when the economic war was tightened against Cuba and began a new stage full of violent acts against industrial, social objectives and specially tourist targets. Among the main actions that counted with full impunity and tolerance by the USA authorities, they mentioned the continuos infiltration of Mafia elements with abundant weapons and explosive material, financed by the Cuban American National Foundation (FNCA) and that in all cases were exonerated of charges and responsibilities. They narrated how in 1994, when the Cuban economy touched the bottom and began the recovery road, more than ten violent acts were registered and the invitation to illegal trips was increased. They also denounced the use of a plane from the North American Department to spread substances as harmful as Thrip Palmi over Cuban plantations. >From the list, twenty five violations of air space of the archipelago ,did not escape. International Norms for air space were also violated by "Brothers to Rescue", that included the grave incident of the pulling down of two pirate planes, on February 24, 1996, pretext used to impose the illegal law "Helms Burton". the informative table offered abundant data about terrorist action against the island in 1997 to 2 000 and the increase and gravity of these facts organized from USA territory and under the tolerance and complicity of the North American authorities. In particular, the bombing attacks against hotels : Meli� Cohiba, Capri, National, Sol Palmera from Varadero were recalled; also how right in front the Cubanacan�s offices in Mexico and Havanatur in Bahamas these type of attacks were perpetrated. On September 4 of this same year , explosives were detonated at "Bodeguita del Medio " restaurant and hotels : Trit�n, Chateaux Miramar and Copacabana, in this last one, there was an Italian tourist who resulted dead, Fabio di Celmo, as a result of this explosion. They outlined that, right from these criminal acts , Salvadorian citizens were arrested and other three from Guatemala, linked to the highly known counter revolutionary terrorist : Luis Posada Carriles. In 1997 plans were organized to act against President Fidel Castro�s life to be carried out at Margarita island, Venezuela,. The executors were arrested with a group of weapons, they were judged in Puerto Rico and finally found free of charge. Another attempt of assassination against Fidel was pretended to be done during his visit to the Dominican Republic in August 98, in which Posada Carriles was involved. Furthermore, infiltrations were recalled in April and May 98 by the northern part of Matanzas and Santa Luc�a region at Pinar del R�o, respectively. The capture of a terrorist team that pretended to infiltrate in the country on April 26 of this year by the Northern coast of Villa Clara , was announced. As a result the Cuban Coast Guards arrested citizens of Cuban origin: Ihosvani Suris de la Torre, Maximo Pradera Vald�s and Santiago Padr�n Quintero all with address registered at Miami and supported by counter revolutionary organizations , FNCA, Alfa 66 and F-4 Commands. During the TV program, a video was shown about a phone conversation between Suris , arrested, and his boss at Miami, Santiago Alvarez, who in a shameful attitude recommended calm and to continue with the counter revolutionary plans, among them, the destruction of the famous Tropicana Cabaret. The long relation of the panelists included the capture at Panama, on November 19, 2000 of a counter revolutionary group guided by Posada Carriles himself, who pretended to act against the Cuban President�s life , risking hundreds of students�s life , during the X Iberian American Summit , case still unfinished and that Cuba demands justice. Besides of all this illegal relation between years 1990 and 2001 the Cuban authorities had knowledge of 16 plans plus attempts against Fidel, eight (8) conspiracies to murder other leaders of the Revolution and 140 terrorist acts. Newspapers coincided that part of the terrorist acts were frustrated , not encouraged and obstructed by the work of the Security Organ and of Intelligence of the country in collaboration with Cuban patriots, who risking their lives in USA have got information about these operations. The analysis also included the repercussion of the terrorist actions in the USA territory itself and against that people that have given an additional value to the attitude of the five patriots jailed and show the transcendence of their brave message from jail. In her final comment, journalist, Arleen Rodr�guez expressed that the round table had the honorable mission of broadcast details of this hour of great truth that explains why those young men were at Miami, risking their lives. She went on saying, it is obvious why their letter was guided to the North American people and not to the government of that nation, whose authorities have propitiated a political process without real reasons and as pretext to harm Cuba. Another reason is the positive reaction of North Americans when Elian was kidnapped by the Mafia and the Mafia used the child as a piece of their policy . Cubans unfairly in jail are the evidence of the tremendous reserve of the country, the value of the youth and expression of Jos� Mart� Cuba, the country that Jos� Mart� knew how to see, facing USA that pays thousands of dollars to seed death and pain, expressed. The round table reiterated the certainty of their innocence, since they have not committed any crime, what they did , was to save their people and the one from USA of terrorists actions from the Miami Mafia. Along four years, they have kept a patriotic and example attitude facing humiliations included 17 months without communication , that is why their homeland is proud and will go on facing the fallacies and discovering truth. The round table will go on tomorrow Thursday, revealing the real history of these deeds. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
