Reply #80: Santiago Alvarez: just one of a whole swarm of murderers free in Miami! [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Found a photo of Santiago Alvarrez, yukking it up with Guillermo Novo, who was one of the four would-be bombers/mass murderers who were caught in Panama with the bombing materials interrupting their plan to blow up the auditorium where Fidel Castro was speaking to a crowd.

Another miscarriage of justice when Mireya Moscoso pardoned them the very day before the end of her Presidency of Panama, and her move to Miami, where they are now.

Terrorists Arrested In Miami
by Jane Franklin
December 10, 2005

Among the many terrorists in Miami, two have finally been arrested. Santiago Alvarez and Osvaldo Mitat were picked up on November 18 and 19 and charged with possession of numerous weapons, including fully automatic machine guns along with ammunition, grenades along with a grenade launcher, explosives along with blasting caps. Serial numbers on some of the guns had been filed off. A briefcase held a pistol along with a silencer. In addition, Santiago Alvarez is charged with attempting to receive a counterfeit passport in his name--a Guatemalan passport even though he has no claim to Guatemalan citizenship. Alvarez is a legal permanent resident of the United States who has retained his Cuban citizenship.

Osvaldo Mitat is a Cuban-American. At the time of his arrest, he said, "Unfortunately, you guys are doing your jobs and we got caught with a bunch of guns. I love the United States....These guns were not meant to be used against this country."

There is of course no mystery about which country they were going to be used against. Santiago Alvarez is a real estate mogul with plenty of cash to finance attacks against Cuba. Like his good friend, notorious terrorist Luis Posada, Alvarez left Cuba soon after the Revolution of 1959. And, like Posada, he has been waging a campaign of violence against the island ever since. For example, on October 12, 1971, aboard a speedboat under cover of darkness, terrorists machinegunned the fishing village of Boca de Samá, killing two people and wounding three others, including two sisters, 15-year-old Nancy and 13-year-old Angela Pavón, who were asleep at the time of the raid. Nancy Pavón's foot had to be amputated. Recently, at a speech given by Fidel Castro, she sat among victims of terrorists who have killed and maimed Cuban citizens and other people for four-and-a-half decades. According to Cuban intelligence, Alvarez was aboard that speedboat.

The CIA knows who these terrorists are. The CIA trained them. As Luis Posada told New York Times reporters in 1998, "The CIA taught us everything--everything....They taught us explosives, how to kill, bomb, trained us in acts of sabotage." Even as the Bush Administration claims to be waging a war on terror, terrorists have continued to wage their war against Cuba with impunity.

Alvarez has been a financial backer and spokesman for Luis Posada. Alvarez says he buys Posada's paintings. He admits the paintings aren't very good but says that's how Posada makes his living. In the year 2000 Alvarez must have bought some very expensive paintings to finance Posada's attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro in Panama City. Thanks to Cuban intelligence agents, the plot was exposed to Panamanian police, who arrested Posada and his team of assassins, saving the lives of some 1500 people, mostly students, who might have been blown up along with Castro in the university auditorium where Castro spoke.
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