[NYTr] December: A Month with a Long History of anti-Cuba Terrorism Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:26:29 -0600 (CST) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) http://ainch.ain.cu/mailman/listinfo/ingles December: A Month with a Long History of Terrorist Activities By Roberto Perez Betancourt AIN Special Service The history of terrorism committed against Cuba in the month of December, since the 1959 triumph of the revolution, shows that criminals backed by successive US administrations and the CIA do not choose to rest during this month full of festivities and relaxation. The Press Information Center released a new report listing the more than 80 terrorist attempts committed during the last month of the year that run from cold blooded assassinations to sabotages of all types. The methods are different: underground infiltrations of mercenaries with plans to sabotage and assassinate, placing bombs (among the favourites), fires, kidnappings, shootings, maritime piracy, and armed assaults, among others. The perpetrators are part of anti-Cuban organizations directly trained and financed by the CIA or other entities that serve to veil actions ordered by the US government. It is amazing that ten successive US administrations have used hundreds of millions of US taxpayers' dollars to pay for Washington?s dirty war against Cuba, maintain survile mercenaries and blackmail, all to no avail. Although loss of human lives and material losses provoked by such crimes are tragic and costly. The list of terrorist actions against the island during the month of December is long. Just to mention a few during the 1990s shows that terrorism against Cuba actively continues by assassins living unbothered in southern Florida under the protection of the White House. A good example is Luis Posada Carriles, characterized as a dangerous terrorist by the Bush administration itself, which, far from extraditing him to Venezuela to face charges in compliance of international treaties, protect the terrorist called the Bin Laden of Latin America. Here are some more examples of terrorism against Cuba in December. On December 26, 1990 an agricultural AN 2 plane was hyjacked in eastern Las Tunas and taken to the illegally occupied US Naval Base in Guantanamo. The cost of this act was 7,320 pesos. On December 28, 1993 two planes belonging to HAR organization violated Cuban airspace. Three terrorists from Miami infiltrated the area of Matanzas province on December 29, 1991. Weapons and other war materials were confiscated. According to reports, these terrorist had received training in a camp located on 168th Street in Miami where some 60 other people also received training. On December 21, 1977, the Omega 7 organization carried out four sabotage actions with bombs in Miami and New Jersey, aimed at hurting Cuban emigrants and damaging travel agencies that did business with the island. On December 23, 1962, terrorists assassinated a farmer and wounded his brother in the eastern province of Sancti Spiritus and also set fire to a local store. Still in the memory of the Cuban people is the sabotage in the La Epoca department store in downtown Havana on December 31, 1960. A fire was set by the terrorist organization Movimiento 30 de Noviembre and raged for 22 hours, injuring 34 people and causing material damages estimated at more than 10 million pesos. This is only a few examples of the blood and grief caused by a group of crazy people and organizations that do not rest in their obsession to destroy the sovereignty of the Cuban people, who will soon celebrate the 49th anniversary of their definitive independence. * ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us Our main website: http://www.blythe.org List Archives: http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ Subscribe: http://blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr =================================================================