>From : Aimara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reflections by the Commander in Chief
A BRUTAL REPLY
George W. Bush is undoubtedly the most genuine representative
of a system of terror forced on the world by the technological,
economic and political superiority of the most powerful country
known to this planet.
For this reason, we share the tragedy of the American people
and their ethical values. The instructions for the verdict issued
by Judge Kathleen Cardone, of the El Paso Federal Court
last Friday, granting Luis Posada Carriles freedom on bail,
could only have come from the White House.
It was President Bush himself who ignored at all times the
criminal and terrorist nature of the defendant who was protected
with a simple accusation of immigration violation leveled at him.
The reply is brutal.
The government of the United States and its most representative
institutions had already decided to release the monster.
The backgrounds are well-known and reach far back.
The people who trained him and ordered him to destroy
- a Cuban passenger plane in midair, with 73 athletes,
students and other Cuban and foreign travelers on board,
together with its dedicated crew;
- those who bought his freedom while the terrorist was held in prison
in Venezuela, so that he could supply and practically conduct
a dirty war against the people of Nicaragua,
resulting in the loss of thousands of lives
and the devastation of a country for decades to come;
- those who empowered him to smuggle with drugs
and weapons making a mockery of the laws of Congress;
those who collaborated with him to create the terrible
Operation Condor and to internationalize terror;
the same who brought torture, death and often the physical
disappearance of hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans,
could not possibly act any different.
Even though Bushs decision was to be expected, it is certainly
no less humiliating for our people. Thanks to the revelations of
Por Esto! a Mexican publication from the state of Quintana Roo
later complemented by our own sources,
Cuba knew with absolute precision how Posada Carriles
entered from Central America, via Cancun, to the Isla Mujeres
departing from there on board the Santrina, after the ship
was inspected by the Mexican federal authorities,
heading with other terrorists straight to Miami.
Denounced and publicly challenged with exact information
on the matter, since April 15, 2005, it took the government
of that country more than a month to arrest the terrorist,
and a year and two months to admit that Luis Posada Carriles
had entered through the Florida coast illegally on board
the Santrina, a presumed school-ship licensed in the United States.
Not a single word is said of his countless victims, of the bombs
he set off in tourist facilities in recent years, of his dozens of plans
financed by the govt. of the United States to physically eliminate me.
It was not enough for Bush to offend the name of Cuba
by installing a horrible torture center similar to Abu Ghraib
on the territory illegally occupied in Guantánamo,
horrifying the world with this procedure.
The cruel actions of his predecessors seemed not enough for him.
It was not enough to force a poor and underdeveloped country
like Cuba to spend 100 billion dollars.
To accuse Posada Carriles was tantamount to accusing himself.
Throughout almost half a century, everything was fair game
against our small island lying 90 miles away from its coast,
wanting to be independent. Florida saw the installation of the largest
station for intelligence and subversion that ever existed on this planet.
It was not enough to send a mercenary invasion on the
Bay of Pigs, costing us 176 dead and more than 300 wounded
at a time when the few medical specialists they left us
had no experience treating war wounds.
Earlier still, the French ship La Coubre carrying Belgian weapons
and grenades for Cuba had exploded on the docks of Havana Harbor.
The two well synchronized explosions caused the deaths
of more than 100 workers and wounded others
as many of them tool part in the rescue attempts.
It was not enough to have the Missile Crisis of 1962, which brought
the world to the brink of an all-consuming thermonuclear war,
at a time when there were bombs 50 times more powerful
than the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It was not enough to introduce in our country viruses,
bacteria and fungi to attack plantations and flocks;
and incredible as it may seem, to attack human beings.
Some of these pathogens came out of American laboratories a
nd were brought to Cuba by well-known terrorists
in the service of the United States government.
Add to all this the enormous injustice of keeping 5 heroic patriots
imprisoned for supplying information about terrorist activities;
they were condemned in a fraudulent manner to sentences
that include 2 life sentences and they stoically withstand
cruel mistreatment, each of them in a different prison.
Time and again the Cuban people have fearlessly faced the
threat of death. They have demonstrated that with intelligence,
using appropriate tactics and strategies, and especially
preserving unity around their political and social vanguard,
there can be no force on this earth capable of defeating them.
I think that the coming May Day celebration would be the ideal day
for our people, - using the minimum of fuel and transportation -
- to show their feelings to the workers and the poor of the world.
Fidel Castro Ruz
April 10, 2007.
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