Pardoned exile trio back home

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Fri, Aug. 27, 2004




MIAMI-DADE | PANAMA PARDONS


Pardoned exile trio back home

Nearly four years after being arrested in Panama on accusations of plotting to kill Fidel Castro, three Cuban exiles from Miami-Dade return home.

BY ELAINE DE VALLE

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Three Miami Cuban exiles jailed after Fidel Castro claimed they were plotting to assassinate him came home amid cheers and tears at Opa-locka Airport on Thursday, having been pardoned by Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso.

A fourth, alleged mastermind Luis Posada Carriles -- a man Castro once called ''the worst terrorist in the hemisphere'' -- immediately went into hiding. Making victory V's with both hands as he was swallowed in a sea of hugs and handshakes, one of the three men, Guillermo Novo, said he had a message for Castro: ''Te la ganamos.'' We beat you.

''We suffered for four years but we won the battle. We have one victory against Fidel,'' Novo said. ``He wanted us to spend 20 years in prison.''

Novo, Posada, Gaspar Jiménez and Pedro Remón -- all involved in past anti-Castro violence -- were arrested in Panama in 2000 on charges that they planned to kill Castro during his visit to the Ibero-American Summit, held in Panama that year. Though Panamanian courts ruled that there was not enough evidence to accuse the men of attempted murder or possession of explosives, they were convicted in April of endangering public safety and sentenced to up to eight years.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/9508461.htm
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[Scurrilous]

1. How did Luis Posada Carriles get past...

...Homeland Security? You would think that a guy who blew up civilian airliners, set off bombs in tourist hotels, and plotted the odd assassination would have a little difficulty entering the country. He must be on a different list than all the other terrorists. The one that reads 'he's one of ours.'

[Judi Lynn]

2. Reading what he's been up to for the past few decades

could almost make you ill. What a stupid waste of a life:

Luis Posada Carriles, one of the founders of CANF, gave an interview to the 'New York Times' newspaper (July 12th-13th, 1998), where he admitted to planning a series of bombings in Cuba. Carriles never mentioned his drug smuggling, nor the fact that he helped carry out murder by blowing a Cuban Airliner out of the sky in 1976, killing all 73 aboard. He escaped from prison in Venezuela, where he was being held on those changes, to next turn up coordinating Contra resupply flights in and out of the El Salvadoran airbase at Ilopango. Posada worked with the likes of assassin Rafael 'Chi Chi' Quintero; Felix Rodriguez, (alias Max Gomez), who killed Che Guavera in Bolivia; and Fransico Fiorini, (alias Frank Sturgis - CIA killer, and 'Watergate' bungler). Posada's drugs dealing terrorist activities are no secret to US officials. This has not kept him from obtaining a US passport, and occasionally visiting Miami.

The media subtly marginalize the US intelligence connections to many of these Cuban exiles. When remarked upon, connections are usually portrayed as training heroes of a failed revolution, rather than as hiring drug smuggling terrorists who do the dirty work, of which killing Castro is just one small part.
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http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id233/pg1/

Young Luis Posada Carriles

Older Luis Posada Carriles

New York Times article on this terrorist:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/americas/071398cuba-commando.html

[Billy Burnett]

3. Billions of our dollars spent on "security" these terrorists are welcome?

The "welcome" back to Miami that these child murdering terrorists are receiving today in Miami speak VOLUMES about Miami-Dade county, Florida, and the USA.

One would expect that there would be a large backlash or at least an uproar over the hypocrisy of "homeland security" in S Florida - but ... nope.


Where is the non Cuban exile community? Why is there no one SCREAMING about this egregious violation of security?

Truly, truly frightening.

[Mika]

4. Billy, there are several groups working on a statement right now

There is a much larger contingent of non violent Cuban exiles in Miami's community. There is a sense of outrage. Millian's son is going to make a statement later condemning these henchmen and condemning their return to Miami.

My problem is similiar to yours.. just WHERE THE FUCK IS THE NON CUBAN OUTRAGE? The press?

Silent, as usual. Just letting these hostile, violent and ungrateful self proclaimed "exiles" roll over our rights and security, again.

Pathetic. :puke:

[struggle4progress]

5. kick for wingnut terrorists

:kick: