Court Ruling in Favor of Posada Carriles is a
Brutal Reply
By Fidel Castro
04/11/07 "ACN"
-- -- A BRUTAL REPLY: George W. Bush is undoubtedly the most
genuine representative of a system of terror forced on the world
by the technological, economic and political superiority of the
most powerful country known to this planet.
For this reason, we share the tragedy of the American people and
their ethical values. The instructions for the verdict issued by
Judge Kathleen Cardone, of the El Paso Federal Court last
Friday, granting Luis Posada Carriles freedom on bail, could
only have come from the White House.
It was President Bush himself who ignored at all times the
criminal and terrorist nature of the defendant who was protected
with a simple accusation of immigration violation leveled at
him. The reply is brutal.
The government of the United States and its most representative
institutions had already decided to release the monster.
The backgrounds are well-known and reach far back. The people
who trained him and ordered him to destroy a Cuban passenger
plane in midair, with 73 athletes, students and other Cuban and
foreign travelers on board, together with its dedicated crew;
those who bought his freedom while the terrorist was held in
prison in Venezuela, so that he could supply and practically
conduct a dirty war against the people of Nicaragua, resulting
in the loss of thousands of lives and the devastation of a
country for decades to come; those who empowered him to smuggle
with drugs and weapons making a mockery of the laws of Congress;
those who collaborated with him to create the terrible Operation
Condor and to internationalize terror; the same who brought
torture, death and often the physical disappearance of hundreds
of thousands of Latin Americans, could not possibly act any
different.
Even though Bush?s decision was to be expected, it is certainly
no less humiliating for our people. Thanks to the revelations of
?Por Esto!? a Mexican publication from the state of Quintana Roo
later complemented by our own sources, Cuba knew with absolute
precision how Posada Carriles entered from Central America, via
Cancun, to the Isla Mujeres departing from there on board the
Santrina, after the ship was inspected by the Mexican federal
authorities, heading with other terrorists straight to Miami.
Denounced and publicly challenged with exact information on the
matter, since April 15, 2005, it took the government of that
country more than a month to arrest the terrorist, and a year
and two months to admit that Luis Posada Carriles had entered
through the Florida coast illegally on board the Santrina, a
presumed school-ship licensed in the United States.
Not a single word is said of his countless victims, of the bombs
he set off in tourist facilities in recent years, of his dozens
of plans financed by the government of the United States to
physically eliminate me. It was not enough for Bush to offend
the name of Cuba by installing a horrible torture center similar
to Abu Ghraib on the territory illegally occupied in Guantánamo,
horrifying the world with this procedure. The cruel actions of
his predecessors seemed not enough for him. It was not enough to
force a poor and underdeveloped country like Cuba to spend 100
billion dollars. To accuse Posada Carriles was tantamount to
accusing himself.
Throughout almost half a century, everything was fair game
against our small island lying 90 miles away from its coast,
wanting to be independent. Florida saw the installation of the
largest station for intelligence and subversion that ever
existed on this planet.
It was not enough to send a mercenary invasion on the Bay of
Pigs, costing us 176 dead and more than 300 wounded at a time
when the few medical specialists they left us had no experience
treating war wounds.
Earlier still, the French ship La Coubre carrying Belgian
weapons and grenades for Cuba had exploded on the docks of
Havana Harbor. The two well synchronized explosions caused the
deaths of more than 100 workers and wounded others as many of
them tool part in the rescue attempts.
It was not enough to have the Missile Crisis of 1962, which
brought the world to the brink of an all-consuming thermonuclear
war, at a time when there were bombs 50 times more powerful than
the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It was not enough to introduce in our country viruses, bacteria
and fungi to attack plantations and flocks; and incredible as it
may seem, to attack human beings. Some of these pathogens came
out of American laboratories and were brought to Cuba by
well-known terrorists in the service of the United States
government.
Add to all this the enormous injustice of keeping five heroic
patriots imprisoned for supplying information about terrorist
activities; they were condemned in a fraudulent manner to
sentences that include two life sentences and they stoically
withstand cruel mistreatment, each of them in a different
prison.
Time and again the Cuban people have fearlessly faced the threat
of death. They have demonstrated that with intelligence, using
appropriate tactics and strategies, and especially preserving
unity around their political and social vanguard, there can be
no force on this earth capable of defeating them.
I think that the coming May Day celebration would be the ideal
day for our people, --using the minimum of fuel and
transportation-- to show their feelings to the workers and the
poor of the world.
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