Speech of double standard on terrorism in the United States
By Ernesto Vera Mellado
During 1976, the Caribbean island of Barbados started to form part of the long list of tragic accidents ,unjustified and inadmissible. These terrorist actions have been used by the North American administrations to destroy the revolution in Cuba.
October the 6th , 26 years ago , the chosen scene for terrorism was Barbados when terrorists planted two bombs in a Cuban plane with a registration 1201 type DC 8 with 73 people on board.
The plane was coming back from Venezuela and most of the passengers were the members of the young team of fence , who have been awarded all gold metals in dispute in the Central America and the Caribbean games held in that opportunity at the land of Bolivar.
Besides the Cuban fence team and the crew , the flight 455 of Cubana line was carrying five Koreans and a group of 11 people from Guyana, six of them were studying in Cuba.
The first bomb exploded at 18 thousands feet height , eight minutes after its landing and the shaking it caused was followed by fire and a violent descent.
The second load blew 10 minutes later, when pilots tried to return the craft to the Barbados airport , Seawell, as a final resource of survival.
As the last resource, Captain Wilfredo Pérez, "Felo" launched the plane to the sea, avoiding the craft to fall against the beach facilities and thus stopping a bigger tragedy. All died.
On land, the executers of this sabotage were nervous, their constant visits to the North American embassy, their indiscretions while they were moving by taxi and the constant search of phone contacts with their hire men denounced their guiltiness.
Once they were captured , the Venezuelan mercenaries Freddy Lugo and Hernán Ricardo turned out to be the maximum responsible of the plot: Joe Leo , diplomat officer of the North American embassy of the United States in Barbados and the terrorist of Cuban origin Orlando Bosch Avila and Luis Posada Carriles. All of them widely known as CIA agents.
The guilty ones received the protection of Federal Institutions of the United States and of the extreme anti Cuban wing of Miami and today the majority of them freely walks along the city of Miami.
The greatest responsible
The annexing appetite of the United States with respect to Cuba dates back two centuries ago as it is clearly expressed when they stated that the island due to its geographical position must be within the domain of the American Union.
But it an clear challenge to the imperial pretensions , the archipelago decided in 1959 to work for its own destiny, bearing strong "shakes" and "storms"
Since the triumph of the revolution on January the first there was no peace, Cuba turned itself a victim of terrorist state.
The United States quickly decided to protect known murderers and thieves that escaped from justice. None of the responsible for torture and blood deeds in Cuba were sent back , nor the millions of USD that were stolen to the public treasure.
Documents from March 17 of 1960, the referred programs of Uncovered Actions against the Greatest of Antilles and declassified by the North American government proved the interest of Dwight D. Eisenhower, retaken again by Kennedy of " encouraging, support and guide as possible the actions within and outside Cuba "
It was John F. Kennedy who ordered and then faced the defeat of the invasion of the Playa Girón, (Bay of Pigs) that would justify the occupation of that country by troops of the United States.
As a preamble of this war action , a sensible increase of terrorist actions occurred with sabotages by the counter revolutionary internal side to threaten the people and ease the success of the operation.
Kennedy and his hawks from the pentagon did not resign to their defeat of the Bay of Pigs and quickly made another plan to beat the bad experience of Girón and "recover democracy in Cuba" It was the greatest subversive program ever planned and developed by North America against a foreign nation: the Mongoose Operation.
This was a great operation coordinated by the National Council of the National Security of the United States and involved the pentagon , the State Department and the CIA and lastly the Information Agency to Develop 33 tasks that included economic, political, military and intelligence actions as well as psychological and biological actions.
The CIA station JM Wave at the South of Florida with a year budget of 100 millions of USD and 50 case officers who received support for their work in more than 4 thousands collaborators , would be the Center for Planning of the Mongoose Plan.
To coordinate the operation a structure named Widen Special Group leaded by Robert Kennedy , General Attorney of the United States and brother of the president, was created.
With false pretexts of defending the world from the communist threat , between November 1961 and January 1963 more than 6 thousands terrorist acts, 600 of them were dismounted by the recently created Security Body of the Cuban state.
The sabotage scale against civilian targets, planned and financed from North American territory as well as diverse aggressions that reached the total figure of: 119 violations to the air space by pirate planes , 76 of them coming from the naval Base of Guantánamo, predicting a new military adventure of the USA.
Facing such dark purposes against the island, Cuba started defensive measures and accepted the Soviet purpose of installing in its territory medium ranged rockets by means of the so called operation Anadir.
That is why it would be impossible to analyze the causes of the 1962 October crisis without taking into consideration the Mongoose operation, the historian military Cuban Tomas Diez Acosta ascertained.
As everybody supposes , a brief review to the later history means to go again over the same deeds, Cuba has been the main target of terrorist aggressions carried out by the extreme wing of anti Cubans who have been supported by Washington during the last 43 years.
During the 70 decade , the criminal sabotage to a Cubana plane in Barbados took place, bombs attempts increased at diplomat sites of the island abroad as well as kidnapping and murderers of its diplomat body different offshore offices , mainly in Latin America and the United States and interests of other countries commercially linked with Cuba.
In the 80´s due to the Republican administration of Ronald Reagan to try to reorganize some terrorist organizations in Miami to gain a democratic face, the present "Cuban American National Foundation"
Taking advantages of the unlimited support by the North American administrations, this counter revolutionary mob reached a political control of the Florida zone and formed an important lobby in the Congress of the country. Since then the planting of explosives in the hotels of the Cuban capital and several attempts, occurred..
An important role within the implementing of Torricelli and Helms Burton laws that deepened the blockade, an economic war lasting more than 40 years aiming to surrender by hungriness and sickness to a country. That is also terrorism.
Bad and Good Terrorism?
Sheltered by Washington and now by the Cuban American National Foundation those who have acted against Cuba have never been judged there. Examples are countless, but let's take the example of the Barbados crime.
For Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles this was not the first experience , nor the last one. Just from 1974 , they started to work together and until 1976, they placed bombs at the Cuban and Argentine embassies, Peru and Mexico and against the Panamanian embassy in Caracas.
They did these line of events as well in the Friendship Institute Cuba Venezuela in Caracas , also in the Institute of Brazilian Studies , at the Bolivian embassy at Ecuador and in the Soviet Commercial Office in Mexico.
In 1975 they attempted against the life of the Cuban ambassador in Argentine and a year later they participated in the kidnapping and murder of two Cuban officers in Buenos Aires, among other terrorist actions.
Orlando Bosch only spent certain time in a comfortable jail of the U. S.A. when in 1968 he was arrested right at the moment of taking off towards Cuba with a plane in which he carried 18 bombs and was accused of exporting weapons without license.
After going through a minor charge in Caracas, Bosch freely walks today in the United States and in a published book he stated , referring to the Barbados crime , that anyone aiming to conquer awards for the revolution , has to run the risk of suffering anger from the fighters of freedom.
We did it and so what? , he cynically admitted in an interview to a journal
By his side , Posada Carriles evaded the sanction imposed to him due to the downing of the plane in 1989 to appear lately in South America involved in the Iran Gate scandal and in the terrorist attempts to the Havana hotels. Now he expects to escape in Panama, where he must be judged by the homicide charge against the leader of the Cuban revolution.
However, five Cuban prisoners unfairly accused of espionage and to try to frustrate terrorist actions against their homeland, those terrorist actions have took the lives to three thousands 478 compatriots and mutilations and inabilities to other two thousand 100.
René Gonzalez, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández and Fernando González have proved that they never did anything to harm the interests of the North American institutions or people of that country. Is it that the North American administrations admit two definitions clearly opposed of the same word
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