Cuba 7-22-2015

 

22, July 2015                        Cuba Our long tortuous relationship with our neighbor, Cuba, began with the overthrow of the thoroughly corrupt US puppet, Fulgencio Batista, in January 1959 by Fidel Castro who was initially lauded as a hero. This quickly changed and in March, the National Security Council (NSC) planned a regime change (oh, how we relish regime changes!) by arming guerrillas inside Cuba. This led to efforts by the CIA who launched bombing and incendiary raids piloted by exiled Cubans and numerous efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro including exploding cigars. It’s ironic that we should be accusing Cuba of terrorism when we have engaged in decades of terror to undermine the Castro regime. Mercifully, U.S.-Cuban diplomatic relations have finally been restored after five decades of mutual hostility. Unfinished business remains - the Cuban exile, Luis Posada Carriles, the Osama bin Laden of Latin America, needs to be indicted for his long campaign of terror dating back to the late ‘60s He directed a campaign of planting bombs in hotels and restaurants in Cuba that resulted in injuries and deaths of hundreds of civilians. Posada Carriles was also responsible for downing an airliner with 73 people on board. It is baffling to understand why the US is still harboring this terrorist. Finally, Guantánamo should be returned to its rightful owner, the Cuban people. Guantánamo has become an unsavory symbol of American power where people have been held and tortured for years without due process. Viva la Cuba.