Miami terrorists
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD —Special for Granma International—
• In Miami, where the judge who sentenced the Five refused to recognize the reign of terrorism, the CANF is openly offering assistance to the hijackers of a Cuban airplane and known terrorists are heading a march against those advocating dialogue with the island
WHILE El Nuevo Herald announced (on March 26, 2003) that U.S. authorities could revoke the citizenship of people connected to terrorism, in Miami — the Kingdom of Impunity — the worst protagonists of anti-Cuban political violence continue living in a world apart.
The mask of decency which the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF) has tried to construct since it disposed of most of its elements identified with terror has been suddenly shattered by Joe García of Colombia, the group’s spokesman, openly announcing that it was following the case of DC-3’s six hijackers in order to determine "whether they might need assistance," according to an AP dispatch.
After pushing known terrorists like Roberto Martín Pérez out of the rank and file — suspiciously some days after September 11 — as well as his rowdy wife Ninoska Lucrecia Pérez Castellon and other advocators of violence, the CANF had given itself a moderate image, a new marketing appearance more in line with recent surveys that clearly indicate Cuban-Americans’ support for the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba.
However, on March 19, when the DC-3 Aerotaxi belonging to the Cuban National Air Services Company was hijacked by terrorists who held its pilots at knife point and demanded that they redirect the aircraft to Florida, the CANF suddenly forgot its new image.
A few hours after federal prosecutors announced they were detaining the six dangerous armed criminals, Joe García made a statement to the press that the foundation planned to speak with the air pirates to discover what type of assistance they could offer, as was confirmed by Knight-Ridder in Miami.
García’s statement, which will surely not help promote the mafia organization, was made several days after Miami’s most infamous terrorist hit-man Orlando Bosch declared war on Florida dialoguers, a term designating, as he explained, Cuban-Americans who favor normal relations between the island and its northern neighbor.
BOSCH, LEADER OF DIGNITY?
Killer pediatrician Bosch, responsible for the mid-air explosion of a Cubana Aviation passenger plane and countless terrorist attacks while heading up the bloody group CORU, recently revealed himself as the main promoter — along with the extremist Unidad Cubana group — of a march along Miami’s 8th Street opposing any dialogue between the Cuban-American community and Cuba.
Jesús Permuy, president of Unidad Cubana, a movement made up of various groups responsible for terrorist attacks against the island, explained in El Nuevo Herald, the benevolent diffuser of terror, that the idea of protesting came from "exile groups concerned at the declared intention of some Miami groups to negotiate with the Castro regime, likewise promoted internationally."
In Miami, being ridiculous doesn’t kill. This is how Permuy himself, who appeared before the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva at one point as a "defender" of human rights in Cuba, maintains his close ties with notorious terrorist organizations.
These ties are so strong that he doesn’t hesitate to associate himself with Bosch and his dirty criminal past, with Luis Posada Carriles and his accomplices imprisoned in Panama, as well as with Raymond Molina, the latter’s right-hand man, or Eugenio Llamera, the now famous inventor of the terrorists’ commission on Visa and Master Card.
José Ramón "Raymond" Molina was born in Cuba in 1934 and had strong connections with Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship.
He participated in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and was a CIA operative for 30 years.
As a known supporter of Richard Nixon, he even unsuccessfully ran for Congress and later, equally unsuccessfully, for mayor of Miami.
Molina had connections with Nicaragua’s Somoza regime and later with the anti-Sandinista counterrevolution, and is known among drug trafficking circles.
He has been living for years in Panama, home of the national anti-Cuban mafia. With the complicity of Panama City’s former mayor Mayín Correa, he is currently using all available means to promote the release of Luis Posada and his hitmen.
Molina is also in charge of organizing the defense and possible bribed escape of Posada Carriles with the collaboration of a terrorist detachment made up of personalities such as René Cruz Cruz, Eusebio Peñalver Mazorra, Jorge Borrego, Nelsy Ignacio Castro Matos and Santiago Álvarez Fernández-Magriña.
It’s worth recalling that the majority of these individuals, connected with Unidad Cubana and the CANF, were among those on the list of known terrorists handed over to the Panamanian authorities in November 2000, the day before the 10th Ibero-American Summit was to take place in that country.
All of them regularly "go down" from Miami with large sums of money to pay the narco-attorney Rogelio Cruz, meet with Posada Carriles in El Renacer prison or participate in disinformation campaigns.
PEREZ ROURA AND RADIO TERROR
This money appears in the hidden funds of the anti-Cuban mafia and collection campaigns that Jesús Permuy and his good friend Pérez Roura, director of Radio Mambí, regularly engage in to support the four terrorists in prison in Panama.
Octogenarian Pérez Roura, a former member of the Alpha-66 paramilitary organization and correspondent for the United Revolutionary Organizations Coordination Committee (CORU) terrorist group, continues to be active with Unidad Cubana.
During his morning program, Pérez Roura promoted the march in response to those in favor of dialogue with the same energy he has used to incite violent acts against Cuba with impunity.
Special guest Orlando Bosch, on the "En Caliente" program, introduced as the "president of the People’s Protagonist Party," emphatically announced the march against dialogue has to be the biggest in history, despite the fact that there are many inclined to pull the rug out from under the exile force."
Then, in reference to recent polls revealing majority exile community support for dialogue with the island, claimed that "here, the polls have been greased with money so as to confuse the émigrés."
Inevitably, the unmistakable Ninoska Lucrecia Pérez Castellón is participating in the extremist chorus, with frenzied calls to participate in the march and fanning the flames against the normalization of relations with Cuba. She has been a member of the terrorist Council for the Freedom of Cuba’s executive junta since she was purged from the CANF.
TERRORISM IN ACTION
Recently, various leaders of organizations in favor of normalizing relations with Cuba were thrown out of the Holiday Inn Hotel, located on 2051 LeJeune Road, just before a press conference. Minutes before the conference was to get underway, Coral Gables police ordered participants to abandon the premises despite the fact that they had already paid for the room.
Finally, the press conference took place in the parking lot of the aforementioned hotel. Nobody is quite sure what kinds of threats were made against the Holiday Inn group to provoke such high anxiety levels, but it is no secret that the South Florida mafia has honed the act of threatening and sewing fear into an art form.
Yet again, Miami showed its true colors as a sanctuary of terror where conspiring against Cuba, solidarity with hijackers and support for terrorism are all authorized activities.
Meanwhile, the five Cuban patriots imprisoned in the United States continue to be the victims of mistreatment after having been sentenced in a fraudulent trial for having contributed to the fight against terrorism.
A bloody record
Hostility by Miami fanatics towards any dialogue on the normalization of relations between Cuban and the United States has been demonstrated on a number of occasions. Nevertheless, two infamous cases illustrate beyond any reasonable doubt the total fanaticism of South Florida’s terrorist circles.
While Orlando Bosch personally directed waves of assassinations in both the United States and various Latin America countries from his prison cell in Venezuela, another group, Omega-7, savagely executed two Cuban émigrés who held positions of rapprochement to the island.
On April 28, 1979, Carlos Muñiz Varela, a Cuban tour operator based in Puerto Rico, was shot down and died the following day. In January of the same year, Omega-7 had claimed responsibility for a car bomb at Muñiz’s tour agency in San Juan. Evidence suggests that the killer could very well have been Pedro Remón, the individual currently jailed along with the gang’s chief, Luis Posada Carriles.
On November 25 of that same year, Eulalio José Negrín, a member of the Committee of 75 and a participant in the December dialogue with Cuba the previous year, was murdered in front of his 12-year-old son at his home in Union City, New Jersey. On November 9, 1984, Pedro Remón was identified as Negrín’s assassin by Omega-7 chief Eduardo Arocena.
On April 10, 1986, Judge Robert L. Ward sentenced Remón to 10 years’ imprisonment for a long series of murders and attempts. The killer didn’t even complete half of his sentence.
Pronouncing his reduced sentence, the judge openly expressed his "sympathy" for the terrorist’s "cause."