Cuba premieres violent reality show - Saul Landau

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Cuba premieres violent reality show
Wednesday, 06 October 2010 12:34 Saul Landau


By Saul Landau

On September 27, Cuban state television aired a new kind of Reality Show featuring a strange “black hat” as people call the bad guys in the old oaters. Francisco Chavez Abarca, a Salvadoran nouveau-method actor, played the role of Luis Posada Carriles’ top ranch hand – only he didn’t wear a six-gun or challenge John Wayne to a draw.

This baby-faced bomb-lover, arrested in Venezuela for traveling on a false passport, confessed he had come to Caracas to help stage violence before the September 26 congressional elections. And, unluckily for him, Cuba also wanted him. So, on July 1, Venezuela deported him to Cuba where he made his prime time Cuban TV debut. And what a performance! He calmly ratted out his boss: Luis Posada Carriles (aka Osama bin Latino).

In Marlon Brando casual-speak, and judging by his weight not under duress from any lack of food, the hit man told and showed the Cuban TV audience how he made the boom-boom devices and in which tourist hotels he put them. Melia Cohiba. Nacional. Capri.

Posada, he said, paid him $2,000 for each successful detonation. Twice as much as what he paid another Salvadoran bomber.

Otto Rene Rodriguez told us on camera for our film (“Will The Real Terrorist Please Stand Up” Dec. 2010) from a Cuban prison he only got $1000 per explosion. But he felt satisfied. “Not bad pay,” he said. “You get five days in Cuba, the whole tourist package, air fare and $1,000 bucks , which was a lot of money then <1997>.” So, Posada hustled Otto Rene, paying him half of what Chavez Abarca got. Is there no honor among criminals?

Chavez Abarca also strongly intimated that he thought, from Posada Carriles’ remarks -- he wasn’t absolutely certain -- that the CIA had hired Posada.

Did Posada do “initials-dropping” -- CIA -- to convince Chavez Abarca? Or did the Salvadoran thug-for-hire just want to elevate his terrorist-actor status by invoking the sacred (if you’re in Opus Dei) letters?

"Posada bragged that before everything he did,” Chavez Abarca said to the camera, “he first asked the CIA’s permission." But, Chavez Abarca added, “I don't know if it’s true.”

Cruz Leon, another of Posada’s Salvadoran recruits, showed the TV public how he hid his little bomb in the Copacabana Hotel. Just his bad luck that an Italian tourist, Fabio di Celmo, took a piece of metal in the throat.

Posada admitted his authorship of the murderous deed to New York Times reporters Ann Bardach and Larry Rohter (NY Times July 12, 13. 1998). “The Italian was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Posada explained.

The reporters asked this confessed killer how he slept at night. “I sleep like a baby,” he replied. I interpreted that remark to mean he soiled his diaper. READ MORE AT LINK