Bombs against Cuba, Terrorists on the Loose in US
Such notorious terrorists as Luis Posada Carriles freely walk along streets in the US, where authorities are more concerned about leading their anti-Cuba media campaign than establishing the truth on bombs brought from that country and activated in Cuban hotels.
Over a decade after those events, which claimed the life of an Italian tourist and wounded several other people, the White House remains alien to the issue.
However, in September 1998, it arrested five Cuban anti-terrorists in Miami. Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labanino, Rene Gonzalez, and Fernando Gonzalez were detained by the Federal Bureau of Investigations after Cuban authorities presented information to try to avoid criminal actions plotted in that country.
In the 1990s, anti-Cuban terrorist organizations such as Comandos L, Alpha 66, and the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF) organized actions against the island from US territory, including the machine-gun attack on hotel facilities and planting of explosive artefacts.
After several months of escalating actions, a bomb exploded in one of the rest rooms at Melia Cohiba Hotel's Ache disco, in Havana, on April 2, 1997.
Almost three weeks later, another explosive device was detected on the hall of that same hotel's 15th floor.
Later investigations allowed determining that the two bombs, one of which left considerable material damages, were put by Salvadorian terrorist Francisco Chavez Abarca.
In July, two explosives detonated in the lobbies of Havana's Capri and Nacional Hotels, leaving four people wounded and considerable material damages.
A month later, on August 4, a bomb exploded in the lobby of Melia Cohiba Hotel. On the 22nd, another artefact detonated on a hall of Varadero's Sol Palmeras Hotel, over 80.7 miles east of Havana.
But the most tragic day was on September 4, 1997, when four bombs exploded in hotels Copacabana, Chateau, and Triton, and in La Bodeguita del Medio Restaurant.
As the result of that action, Salvadorian Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon was detained, and confessed that Posada Carriles had hired him and paid 1.500 dollars for each bomb.
The explosion in Copacabana claimed the life of Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo, whom for Posada Carriles "was in the wrong place at the wrong moment."
Statements of the also responsible for the mid-flight explosion of a Cuban airliner in 1976, with 73 people onboard, were published by The New York Times on July 12-13, 1998.
In that interview, Posada Carriles admitted having organized the series of explosive attacks on Cuban tourism resorts, and recognized that late Jorge Mas Canosa, CANF president, personally supervised the flow of money and logistics support.
Cuban denunciations and publication in several US media at the time have not prevented those actions from remaining unpunished.
Now Washington and several European capitals disregard those incidents, while condemning Cuba after the death of a common prisoner, something resembling a valuable arsenal for US hostility, with European complicity.
Over a decade after those events, which claimed the life of an Italian tourist and wounded several other people, the White House remains alien to the issue.
However, in September 1998, it arrested five Cuban anti-terrorists in Miami. Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labanino, Rene Gonzalez, and Fernando Gonzalez were detained by the Federal Bureau of Investigations after Cuban authorities presented information to try to avoid criminal actions plotted in that country.
In the 1990s, anti-Cuban terrorist organizations such as Comandos L, Alpha 66, and the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF) organized actions against the island from US territory, including the machine-gun attack on hotel facilities and planting of explosive artefacts.
After several months of escalating actions, a bomb exploded in one of the rest rooms at Melia Cohiba Hotel's Ache disco, in Havana, on April 2, 1997.
Almost three weeks later, another explosive device was detected on the hall of that same hotel's 15th floor.
Later investigations allowed determining that the two bombs, one of which left considerable material damages, were put by Salvadorian terrorist Francisco Chavez Abarca.
In July, two explosives detonated in the lobbies of Havana's Capri and Nacional Hotels, leaving four people wounded and considerable material damages.
A month later, on August 4, a bomb exploded in the lobby of Melia Cohiba Hotel. On the 22nd, another artefact detonated on a hall of Varadero's Sol Palmeras Hotel, over 80.7 miles east of Havana.
But the most tragic day was on September 4, 1997, when four bombs exploded in hotels Copacabana, Chateau, and Triton, and in La Bodeguita del Medio Restaurant.
As the result of that action, Salvadorian Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon was detained, and confessed that Posada Carriles had hired him and paid 1.500 dollars for each bomb.
The explosion in Copacabana claimed the life of Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo, whom for Posada Carriles "was in the wrong place at the wrong moment."
Statements of the also responsible for the mid-flight explosion of a Cuban airliner in 1976, with 73 people onboard, were published by The New York Times on July 12-13, 1998.
In that interview, Posada Carriles admitted having organized the series of explosive attacks on Cuban tourism resorts, and recognized that late Jorge Mas Canosa, CANF president, personally supervised the flow of money and logistics support.
Cuban denunciations and publication in several US media at the time have not prevented those actions from remaining unpunished.
Now Washington and several European capitals disregard those incidents, while condemning Cuba after the death of a common prisoner, something resembling a valuable arsenal for US hostility, with European complicity.
Source:
Prensa Latina
Date:
23/03/2010