Its Secret Deal with Otto Reich to Wreck Cuba's Economy

[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/


Its Secret Deal with Otto Reich to Wreck Cuba's Economy
Reporters Without Borders Unmasked


hen Robert Menard founded Reporters Without Borders twenty years ago, he gave his group a name which evokes another French organization respected worldwide for its humanitarian work and which maintains a strict neutrality in political conflicts ­ Doctors Without Borders. But RSF (French acronym) has been anything but nonpartisan and objective in its approach to Latin America and to Cuba in particular.

From the beginning, RSF has made Cuba its No. 1 target. Allegedly founded to advocate freedom of the press around the world and to help journalists under attack, the organization has called Cuba "the world's biggest prison for journalists." It even gives the country a lower ranking on its press freedom index than countries where journalists routinely have been killed, such as Colombia, Peru and Mexico. RSF has waged campaigns aimed at discouraging Europeans from vacationing in Cuba and the European Union from doing business there ­ its only campaigns worldwide intended to damage a country's economy.

The above is not a matter of chance because it turns out that RSF is on the payroll of the U.S. State Department and has close ties to Helms-Burton-funded Cuban exile groups.

As a majority of members of Congress work toward normalizing trade and travel with Cuba, the extremist anti-Castro groups that have dictated U.S. Cuba policy for 40 years continue working tirelessly to maintain an economic stranglehold on the island. Their support for RSF is part of this overall strategy.
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from the snipped parts:

"But Cuba disappointed the plotters by surviving."

"RSF's patron at the CFC, Otto Reich, has a long history as a U.S. hit-man in Latin America."

(who is paying Reich's bodyguards?)

[SteppingRazor]

1. In Latin America, and especially the Caribbean.

Reich was the State Department's go-to guy in fomenting the recent Haitian rebellion. Aristide had his problems (lot's of them) but this was just another example of the US doing its best to remove democratically electted left wing leaders in the Western Hemisphere (see Venezuela)

[Robbien]

2. Another instance where BushCo names a group exactly opposite

of what it really represents.

Doctors without Boarders is a truely humanitarian non-political worldwide group.

Reporters without Boarders is a NED funded group of BushCo FauxNews type hitmen.

[hector459]

3. Payback for Castro running out the Jewish Mafia in Cuba in the 50's

Anyone who knows their history about Cuba knows this but dare not mention it when talking about Cuba. Vengence is forever ...