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Washington picks up the tab
• Two European politicians, alongside
terrorists, stage an anti-Cuba show
BY JEAN-GUY
ALLARD—Special for Granma International—
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Berlin, European Parliament Vice President Edward
McMillan-Scott and German Foreign Minister
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will co-chair a conference
against Cuba in April, alongside some of the most
well-known and discredited elements of the Miami
terrorist fauna who count on orientation, financing
and logistical support from Washington.
The
Konrad Adenauer Foundation, an openly anti-communist
organization associated in the past with numerous
anti-Cuba activities, will serve as the front this
time for an event identical to various others that
have taken place in the past, notably in Prague,
Rome, and Madrid, aimed at swaying European public
opinion in favor of the annexationist interests of
the United States.
Further confirmation of a media trap: the call for
the event is coming from the offices of People In
Need (PIN) in Prague, Czech Republic. This
pseudo-NGO is designated in the Bush Plan for Cuba's
annexation, along with Reporters Sans Frontières, as
the axis of the U.S. disinformation campaigns
against Cuba "in third countries."
The
Czech group is the recipient of significant
subsidies from the National Endowment for Democracy
(NED, the agency created by Ronald Reagan in 1983 to
substitute the CIA in the distribution of funds to
complicit foreign organizations). Laura Wides-Múñoz,
an AP journalist in Miami, revealed in an
investigation published December 23, 2006 that PIN
has received $200,000 from the NED to discredit
Cuba.
For
those who do not understand the evidence: in its
Prague office, PIN hosts the International Committee
for Democracy in Cuba (ICDC), another U.S. NGO
fabrication totally financed through a network of
known U.S. State Department intermediaries.
The
ICDC is made up of an impressive collection of
members of the Czech, Slovakian, German, Bulgarian,
and Spanish ultra-right whose common characteristics
are intense anticommunism and servile cooperation
with U.S. diplomatic representatives.
CALZON-MONTANER DUO AMONG THE STARS
The
attendance at the Berlin show of several former
collaborators of the U.S. Interests Section in
Havana, whose personnel of 50 is principally
dedicated to recruiting paid informants of all
types, has already been announced.
Other guests include individuals who have devoted
decades to vilifying Cuba, many of whose profiles
contain proven and documented terrorist activities.
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Heading the list is veteran CIA agent Frank Calzón,
lifetime director of the Cuban Freedom Center in
Washington. His organization is named in the recent
report by the U.S. General Accountability Office
(GAO), which describes the U.S government's
squandering of more than $65 million to destabilize
Cuba. Calzón was only able to secure $5 million for
himself. This man in his sixties belonged to the
terrorist groups Alpha 66 and Abdala in the 1960's
when the CIA used Miami as a training camp.
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Also appearing on the Berlin event menu is Cuban
born, pseudo-intellectual Carlos Alberto Montaner.
This Madrid resident kick-started his political
career by planting bombs in public places around
Havana. He was arrested in his home in December 1960
with a terrorist's arsenal but later escaped to the
Honduran embassy, then committed to rescuing U.S.
counterrevolutionary agents.
•
Silvia Iriondo is the leader of M.A.R. Por Cuba, an
organization similar to Brothers to the Rescue led
by José Basulto, famous for having machine-gunned a
Havana hotel from his yacht. Iriondo was a passenger
on Basulto's plane February 24, 1996, when he
directed other pilots to violate Cuban airspace with
deadly consequences. Basulto left his radio on in
the cockpit in order to document the operation, thus
allowing the world to later hear his roars of
laughter when the other planes were being attacked
by the Cuban Air Force. Iriondo belongs to a long
list of "anti-Castro" activists economically
prioritized by the State Department.
• As
usual in these events, the participation of various
"x" functionaries is probable, such as Vaclav Havel,
ex-president of the Czech Republic and failed
playwright; ex-Spanish Prime Minister José María
Aznar; Salvador Armando Calderón Sol, ex-president
of El Savador; Rexhep Meidani, ex-president of
Albania; and Jorge Paz Zamora, ex-president of
Bolivia, all members of the ICDC and always willing
to spend a couple of days in a five-star hotel, all
expenses paid.
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Among the notable Miami mafiosi always invited to
such prefabricated conferences are:
Pedro V. Roig, general director of Radio and TV
Martí (currently under investigation); Ramón Colas,
famous conman and subsidized playboy;
ex-"Comandante" Huber Matos, linked to
drug-trafficking; Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat, a
terrorist whose Directorio Democrático Cubano
received $3 million from USAID; and Angel Francisco
De Fana Serrano, arrested in California in 1995 with
an arsenal to be used in an attack on Cuba.
On
February 6, 2006, terrorist Sixto Reynaldo "El
Chino" Aquit, famous in Miami for boasting about his
lengthy series of criminal actions, appeared on the
program of a similar event organized in the Swedish
Parliament by PIN, which also recruited some Swedish
politicians with close ties to the U.S. embassy.
That
European tour was preceded by another one, on which
"El Chino" was accompanied by another criminal,
Angel Cuadra Landrova, known in Cuba for his
participation in the razing of cane fields set on
fire using cats as torches.
Despite being one of the founders of Luis Posada
Carriles' support committee along with Nelis Rojas,
Pedro Remón and Dionisio Suárez, all profiled by the
FBI as authors of terrorist acts, Aquit counts on
the wholehearted patronage of PIN and the U.S. State
Department.
For
certain Caleb McCarry, the proconsul designated to
the so-called Commission for Assistance to a Free
Cuba responsible for developing the annexationist
Bush Plan, will appear in the corridors of the
Berlin event. It is common knowledge that he belongs
to the gang of U.S. politicians and functionaries
that provoked the kidnapping and grotesque expulsion
of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti, backed
by the U.S. State Department and with the blessing
of the Bush clan.
McMillan-Scott is also a member of the ICDC. He
recently made a trip to Cuba on a tourist visa,
fully paid for by his secret friends.
At
the Berlin event he promises to "reveal" the
concocted conclusions of this paid journey.
Surprisingly, his alleged findings have already been
published on the PIN website.
However, like his German friend, he has not found it
necessary to date to "reveal" to his country’s media
the extent of the links between European agencies
and the USAID, NED, and IRI, nor the identities of
his millionaire friends in the Cuban-American mafia
of Miami, a city whose name he refrains from
pronouncing. |
