Victims of State Terrorism Day in Cuba

"Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong but of the weak." - Mohandas Gandhi

73 passengers on Cubana airlines flight 455 killed on 10/6/76

The Castro dictatorship has declared today, October 6, its annual "Victims of State Terrorism Day" in Cuba. Official media are remembering the victims of the October 6, 1976 Cubana airlines flight 455 and the 73 passengers killed.

Officials claim that they "condemn all terrorist action wherever it occurs in the world," but have yet to stop harboring terrorists in Cuba.

The Castro regime has yet to apologize for its own history of terrorism against the Cuban people. 

Thirty seven"13 de marzo" tugboat victims killed on July 13, 1994.

In his speech in 2010 Raul Castro complained that the United States in 2001, 2002, and 2009 had not taken up the regime's proposal for "bilateral cooperation to fight against terrorism." 

There are a number of reasons why the United States, or any sane country for that instance, would think twice about "cooperating" with the Cuban dictatorship in the fight against terror [or for that matter against drug trafficking].

Consider the following.

Castro's revolutionary forces took power in Cuba in 1959 using terrorism. Throughout the 1950s, Castro's July 26th Movement carried out multiple bombings terrorizing and killing Cuban civilians. 

NATIONAL POLICE OF CUBA: Responding to one of nine bombs placed last night in Havana by members of Fidel Castro's July 26 movement. This photo in the El Collar store on Aguila street in August 1957

Raul Castro, considered by some as ‘the father’ of the modern crime of skyjacking, plotted several skyjackings. One skyjacking resulted in the deaths of 17 civilians on November 1, 1958.  

  

Castroism views terrorism as a legitimate tactic to advance its objectives. Havana published the "Mini Manual for Revolutionaries." Translated into many languages, it contains a chapter on terrorism that states: "Terrorism is a weapon the revolutionary can never relinquish."

 

 Castro created a terrorist international.  

The Tricontinental Conference held in Havana from January 3-16, 1966, and the creation of Organization for the Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAL) sought to support terrorist groups worldwide. “Castro insisted that ‘bullets not ballots’ was the way to achieve power.”  He maintained “‘conditions exist[ed] for an armed revolutionary struggle.’

 

Carlos the Jackal trained in Cuba.

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (age 17)  attended the 1966 Conference. Afterwards, Ilyich spent the summer at Camp Matanzas, a guerrilla warfare school run by the Cuban DGI.  Following a string of terrorist attacks, he picked the alias “Carlos. France expelled three high‐ranking Cuban diplomats on July 10, 1975. ”The Cubans, according to the French Interior  Ministry, were “constant visitors” to the Paris hideout of Carlos” 

"In the Arab world some 3,000 [Cuban advisers could] be found in Libya and Algeria, among other things training terrorists" in 1988. Havana today collaborates with Hamas and other Middle East terrorists groups.

Killing Americans in New York City. 

Aftermath of bombing in Fraunces Tavern in 1975 that killed four.

 

The Puerto Rican terrorist group, Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, (FALN) carried out more than 130 bombings.  The FALN is responsible for:

•  the 1975 explosion at Fraunces Tavern, killing four and wounding 63 others. 

• A bombing spree in New York City in August 1977 that killed one, injured six, and forced the evacuation of 100,000 office workers; 

• and the purposeful targeting and maiming of four police officers. 

FALN was started in the mid-1960s and received advanced training in Cuba. 

Frank Connor killed in Frances Tauvern by Cuban trained terrorists

 

Samuel T. Frances in his 1979 essay “Latin American Terrorism: The Cuban Connection” published by The Heritage Foundation found that "[a]lmost every significant Latin American terrorist group of left-wing orientation has had or has today links with Cuba.”  

Cuba was placed on the list of state terror sponsors on March 1, 1982. 

 

The US State Department confirmed Havana was using a narcotics ring to funnel arms and cash to the Colombian terrorist group M-19. On November 6, 1985, M-19 members stormed Colombia’s Palace of Justice. This attack led to many hostages killed, including 11 of the Colombian supreme court’s 25 justices. 

 

The Cuban dictatorship has carried out acts of state terrorism against Cuban nationals killing dozens including women and children. Fidel Castro, in the case of the tugboat massacre, then defended and celebrated the men responsible for the massacre declaring their actions to be "exemplary, there's no denying it." 

 

Spy network plots murder of Americans in coordinated attack.  

Havana carried out Operation Scorpion, an act of state terrorism through its spy network in the United States that killed four in international airspace on February 24, 1996. The WASP Network (La Red Avispa) targeted U.S. military facilities, planned to smuggle arms and explosives into the U.S.,among other active measures.

 

WASP Network planned terrorist acts on U.S. soil.

 

The victims of repression and terror require both justice and a thorough investigation of the facts in evidence to arrive at the truth. Obtaining both will set the groundwork for national reconciliation on a solid footing but will necessitate an independent judiciary in Cuba not the instrument of a totalitarian dictatorship that it is today. 

 

Cuban state terrorism martyrs killed 2/24/96