[NYTr] Terrorist Attacks Against Cuba: A July Tradition
 
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:34:40 -0500 (CDT)

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Terrorist Attacks Against Cuba: A July Tradition

By Roberto Perez Betancourt
AIN Special Service
edited by NY Transfer News

Documented over the last 38 years, more than 70 terrorist acts against
Cuba were carried out by terrorists during the month of July, supported
by successive US administrations and including at least 15
assassinations and dozens of wounded. 

The criminal actions by groups organized, trained and financed by the
US Central Intelligence Agency have targeted economic, political and
social sectors on the island. They have caused tragedies and have
affected the economic interests of some twenty nations from 1960 to
1998.  The terrorism included armed attacks against defenseless
families, hijacking planes and vessels, planting bombs and other
horrendous incidents. 

These criminal actions by enemies of the Revolution, which continue
to this day, also included people and establishments inside the US --
mainly Miami -- as well as Jamaica, Canada, and Puerto Rico. France,
Panama, Italy, Spain, Barbados, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and
Britain have also suffered the consequences.  Obviously, the aggressive
interests of the terrorists and their sponsors do not recognize limits
nor respect borders, showing disrespect towards the international
community of nations.

Air piracy has been felt mainly during the month of July with the
complicity of the US administration.  On July 3rd, 1961, the guard of a
Cubana Airliner en route from Havana to Camaguey was seriously wounded
when the plane was hijacked and taken to the US. The craft was not
returned, inflicting $160,000 damage to Cuba. On the same date, an
agricultural Piper PA-18 plane from the province of Matanzas, 100
kilometres east of Havana, was also hijacked. It was never returned,
inflicting more loss. 

The complicity of the US authorities in these criminal actions is
clear.   On July 4th, 1992, terrorists coming from the US attacked
economic installations on the Havana coasts. After being detected by
Cuban defense forces, the attackers deployed toward the waters close to
Varadero, 130 kilometres east of the capital, where their vessel
suffered a mechanical failure. The US Coast Guard rescued them and
proved that they were carrying weapons, which were confiscated.
However, after an FBI interrogation in the US, the terrorists were
simply set free despite the evidence against them. 

Such events have been repeated throughout the history of aggression
against Cuba.  On July 9th, 1976, a bomb went off after being placed in
one of the suitcases on board a Cubana airliner en route from Kingston
to Havana.  Due to delays in the flight, the explosion occurred on land.
This was only the prelude to the bombing in October of a Cubana
airliner over Barbados, killing 73 people on board. The intellectual
authors of this massacre are now walking the streets of Miami, released
and protected by the governments of Bush Senior and George W. Bush.
They are Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, two of the main
organizers of terrorist actions against Cuba throughout this sad
history.  They are not the only ones; there are others who are also
walking the streets of southern Florida, where they enjoy impunity
given to them by the Bush clan.
       
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