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More sanity in an insane world...(Cuba)
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BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AT THE ANTIIMPERIALIST

TRIBUNE ON 20 MAY 2005



The different conduct followed by Cuba as compared to that of the United States in the struggle on terrorism was clearly exposed in several archives, some of which were revealed by the Commander in Chief in his statement.



From April to September 1997, a series of attacks were perpetrated against hotels and other tourist facilities in Havana. These actions, which were executed by a terrorist network based in Central America, organized by Luis Posada Carriles and financed by the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), caused the death of young Italian Fabio Di Celmo and wounds to 10 other people, in addition to significant material loss.



Before, a list was drawn up of 13 serious terrorist actions perpetrated from 17 October 1992 to 30 April 1997 against tourist facilities, almost all of them financed by the Cuban American National Foundation. The information was relayed to President William Clinton through an outstanding political personality who visited the country in early May 1997.



The first exchange of information between Cuba and the United States about potentially new bomb plots against other tourist facilities in Cuba started in October 1997. In March 1998, the Head of the US Interests Section in Havana was informed about the need to prevent the execution of such acts with impunity, and that this would not be difficult if the United States as well as Cuba coordinated, through the appropriate bodies, the fight against such actions.



The Commander in Chief referred to the fact that Cuba discovered a terrorist plan to blow up planes that carried tourists to and from our country.



It was important for Cubans as well as for the United States to cope with this situation before the resumption of the aircraft kidnapping practice, which seriously jeopardized the life of innocent people from different countries of origin.



He called upon the US to carry out joint efforts to abort such terrorist plots and reassured the absolute willingness on the part of the Cuban authorities to cooperate with their American counterparts.



Based on the positive exchange that had taken place between both parties, the Cuban President decided to send a message to his American counterpart, which he himself wrote, addressing briefly and summarily seven subjects. In his statement, the Commander in Chief only referred to the first of such subjects, the one related to the terrorist actions organized and financed from the United States against Cuba.



The Cuban authorities had discovered terrorist plots which would also affect the US territory or its citizens. He pointed out that the US police and intelligence agencies were in possession of enough reliable information on the main people responsible. The responsibility to fight these actions could not be left to Cuba alone.



The message was sent with the outstanding writer Gabriel García Márquez.



The letter was handed over to top US government officials on 7 May 1998, an occasion on which Gabriel García Márquez said to have perceived in his interlocutor the willingness to cooperate.



Two days after, the contacts between officials from both countries took place, and experts from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) visited Cuba in June of that same year.



The US delegation was given copious information, both documentary and testimonies. The material handed over included 64 pages containing information from investigations into 31 terrorist acts and plans against our country, all of which took place between 1990 and 1998. Most of these actions could be traced back to the Cuban American National Foundation which also organized and paid for the most dangerous of the actions, especially those carried out by the terrorist apparatus headed by Luis Posada Carriles in Central America. Included with the previous information were detailed lists and photographs of weapons, explosives and other materiel seized during each action. In addition, 51 pages with information concerning the money provided by the Cuban American National Foundation to different terrorist groups for terrorist acts on Cuba were given to the FBI. The FBI also received recordings of 14 phone conversations from Luis Posada Carriles in which he provided information about terrorist attacks on Cuba, as well as information on how to locate Posada Carriles, such as the addresses of his homes, places he frequented, the make and number plates of cars he used in El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Panama. They were also given 8 transcripts of conversations with terrorists arrested in Cuba in which they tell of their connection to Posada Carriles. FBI agents were given 60 pages with files on 40 Cuban-born terrorists, most of whom live in Miami and data on how to find them. They also took with them three 2-gramme samples of explosive substances from the bombs deactivated before they exploded in the Melia Cohiba hotel on 30 April 1997 and on a tourist microbus on 19 October 1997 and the explosive device confiscated from two Guatemalan terrorists on 4 March 1998.



The FBI agents were also given 5 video and 8 audiocassettes with statements by the Central American tourists who had been arrested for placing bombs in hotels. In these statements they tell of their connection to Cuban terrorist organizations which operate out of the United States and in particular their connection to Luis Posada Carriles.



The US side acknowledged how valuable the information they had been given was and made a commitment to give a reply with an analysis of these materials as soon as possible.



Then, strangely enough, almost three months went by and the serious response promised was not sent back. Only some trivial news was received.



The cooperation that had started in 1998 was immediately frustrated. The Cuban-born mob of Miami and the ex chief of the FBI in that city, Héctor Pesquera, thwarted all the joint efforts between Cuba and the United States to combat terrorism.



The drive and political influence of the mob leaders proved to be stronger than the US President and its National Security Council.



Héctor Pesquera, the then chief of the FBI in Miami, was the one who severed the contacts between the authorities of both countries, and acted to destroy the network Cuba had in that city to combat the terrorist groups.



Pesquera put all of his efforts into persecuting and laying charges against the Cuban patriots René González, Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, and Antonio Guerrero. They were the main source of information about the terrorist actions, and were convicted to long terms of imprisonment in that country.



No terrorist happened to be arrested anywhere, only the comrades who relayed information to us.



The most dramatic for the American people is that while Pesquera and his agents were fully committed to the persecution, arrest and scandalous prosecution of the Cubans, no fewer than 14 of the 19 participants in the 9/11 attacks against the World Trade Center in New York and other sites were living and getting trained precisely in Pesquera’s area of responsibility.



Cuba's struggle against terrorism has helped save hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives, among them, the lives of many brothers and sisters from the United States.



This is proof that the conduct followed by both countries has been different. Long live the friendship between the peoples of Cuba and the United States!, concluded the Commander in Chief.



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