Terrorism in Miami
Some of the same hard-line émigrés who now accuse Cuba of involvement in terrorism supported -and in some cases still support- Cuban émigré terrorism in the U.S. and against Cuba.
Militant hard-line émigré activities caused the FBI to designate Miami the "terror capital" of the United States. One of the most infamous attacks, in 1976, was that on Emilio Milian, who, on a Miami radio station, denounced terror tactics and intimidation by extremist émigrés. Milian survived, but lost both his legs in the car bomb attack.
Countless other terrorist attacks have taken place in Miami over the years, including the bombings of: the Cuban Museum of Art (in 1988 and again 1990); the home of Maria Cristina Herrera, the organiser of a conference on U.S.-Cuba relations (1988); Marazul Charters, which arranges travel to Cuba (1989 and again in 1996); Little Havana's Centro Vasco, prior to the performance of Cuban singer Rosita Fornes (1996); the Amnesia nightclub before a performance by Cuban singer Manolín (1999).<1>
But the terror was not limited to Miami; in Washington, DC, two Cuban émigrés, Jose Dionisio Suarez Esquivel and Virgilio Paz Romero, helped mastermind the 1976 assassination of Orlando Letelier, former Chilean diplomat, and his colleague, Ronni Moffit. The terrorists were each sentenced to 12 years in jail and served half of that time. Though U.S. law requires that non-U.S. citizens must be returned to their country of origin after incarceration, the two convicted terrorists remained in INS custody because there is no deportation agreement with Cuba. The Miami Herald reported upon his release in 2001 that Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) lawyers had "fought diligently" to get Paz Romero released from INS custody. A CANF spokesman insisted they did so because trying a harder case could clear the way for easier cases to be won. A convoluted explanation, at best, which in no way changes the fact that the Foundation went all out to set free a convicted terrorist.
Over the years, many Miami-based terrorist attacks have also been launched against Cuba. Cuban émigrés Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles, who are regarded as heroes by the extreme right-wing émigrés (the City Commission of Miami declared a "Dr. Orlando Bosch Day" in 1983), were charged and imprisoned in Venezuela for the bombing of a Cubana airliner off Barbados in 1976, an act of terrorism that resulted in the loss of 73 lives, most of them innocent young Cubans - including the entire Cuban fencing team.
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http://www.spectrezine.org/global/cubaandterrorism.html~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~You may recall that four of them, including the horrendous bomber, who was also employed by our CIA, Luis Posada Carilles, have been imprisoned in Puerto Rico with 3 others for his part in a bomb plot, in which they intended to blow up a university auditorium where Fidel Castro was making an address during the Ibero-American Conference in 2000. The human cost would have been unbelievable, if they hadn't been caught with all their bombing paraphenalia.
During the time they were in jail, suddenly it was discovered in the evidence room that the fuse needed to legally prove they inteded to bomb the place was missing, so they were tried for a lesser charge.
Their legal fees were provided by the Miami "exile" community.
Luis Posada Carriles was imprisoned in Venezuela for his part in the airliner bombing which killed 73 people until someone smuggled him out after he donned a priest disguise. He has claimed the Cuban American National Foundation as his sponsor to the New York Times.
Murdering, free-ranging bastards.
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