{"id":187113,"date":"2021-08-01T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/z3news.com\/w\/?p=187113"},"modified":"2021-11-11T09:38:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:38:14","slug":"the-us-war-on-cuba-from-economic-embargoes-biological-warfare-to-us-backed-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/z3news.com\/w\/the-us-war-on-cuba-from-economic-embargoes-biological-warfare-to-us-backed-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"The US War on Cuba: From Economic Embargoes, Biological Warfare to US-Backed Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before the rise of Cuba\u2019s Communist party, there was a US-backed fascist government under the leadership of Fulgencio Batista<\/strong> who ruled Cuba with an iron fist.\u00a0 Batista was elected in 1940 serving a 4-year term.\u00a0 Then Batista\u2019s reign of terror effectively began when he decided to run for re-election in 1952, but when his political party found itself practically in last place during the election with Roberto Agramonte<\/strong> of the Orthodox Party who was in the lead followed by Carlos Hevia<\/strong> of the\u00a0Authentic Party, he decided to lead a military coup and cancel the elections.\u00a0 The current president at the time, President Carlos Prio Socarras<\/strong> went into exile as a result.\u00a0 So what did Washington do?\u00a0 They immediately recognized Batista\u2019s government and gave him financial and military support among other benefits.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

In the meantime, Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution that he originally supported and then made a radical move by cancelling whatever civil liberties the Cuban people had left.\u00a0 Batista had total control over the Cuban economy that was once on equal grounds with Italy in terms of economic growth. \u00a0One of Batista\u2019s first moves as a typical dictator in Latin America when he gave his full-support to wealthy landowners who owned basically almost all of the sugar plantations on the island.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Image on the right: Fulgencio Batista (Public Domain)<\/p>\n

\"Fulgencio<\/p>\n

Under Batista, the divide between rich and poor grew although wages rose to keep the Cuban people somewhat temporarily satisfied at least for the time-being.\u00a0 However, government corruption was out of control while the American mafia (both Italian and Jewish) were in control of drugs, gambling and prostitution allowing these criminal enterprises to become profitable industries in Cuba. \u00a0Cuba\u2019s situation became so dire that the people began to get angry.\u00a0 So Batista made the decision to take over the media by way of censorship and he even created an anti-communist secret police force that was authorized to use torture and was even given permission to conduct public executions to install fear among the Cuban people.<\/p>\n

It is estimated that there were between 10,000 to 20,000 Cubans who were actually murdered with Washington\u2019s full-knowledge of the situation, but hey, to the US establishment that was American-style democracy in action.\u00a0 Then the birth of The<\/em> July 26 Movement<\/em> led by Fidel Castro took place against the US-backed dictatorship with an attack on the Moncada army barracks in Santiago, but was defeated by Batista\u2019s military. As university students and anti-Batista activists continued protests against Batista\u2019s social policies, the secret police forces increased repressive tactics to crush the protests.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It was just a matter of time before the people rose up against the Batista\u2019s tyrannical regime as his actions paved the way for the Cuban revolution of 1959 and that was the consequences of the US government interfering in the politics and economy of a foreign country.\u00a0 It was inevitable.\u00a0 However, relations between the new Castro government and Dwight D. Eisenhower administration were at first a bit friendly, but when Cuba\u2019s new Agricultural Reform law confiscated lands that were owned and operated by US businesses while sponsoring anti-US revolutionary movements in the Caribbean, the relationship quickly turned sour.\u00a0 An arms embargo was imposed on Cuba on March 14, 1958 which was towards the end of an armed struggle between the\u00a0fascists led by Fulgencio Batista<\/strong> and the rebels led by\u00a0Fidel Castro<\/strong> which was the start of a series of embargos that eventual led to today\u2019s protests erupting in Cuba.<\/p>\n

The US government has been trying to overthrow Cuba\u2019s communist system since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, <\/strong>so the Eisenhower administration made a move against Cuba a year later.<\/p>\n

So in the summer of 1960, the US started an economic war so they imported less brown sugar from Cuba under the\u00a0Sugar Act of 1948 <\/em>allowing Cuba to rely on the Soviet Union who agreed to purchase the sugar.<\/p>\n

During that same time period, the US refused to export oil to Cuba making it reliant on crude oil from the Soviet Union, it was a move that prompted US companies to refuse refining Cuba\u2019s oil.\u00a0 Cuba responded to the actions imposed by the US by nationalizing three US-owned refineries that became the Union Cuba-Petroleo.\u00a0 The Eisenhower administration imposed Cuba\u2019s first trade embargo that restricted selling Cuba various products with the exception of food and medicine.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Then in the month of October, tensions rose between Washington and Havana when Castro decided to nationalize all US businesses without compensation.\u00a0 US diplomats were also expelled from Cuba that prompted Eisenhower to cut all diplomatic channels with Cuba on January 1961 allowing the US trade embargo to continue under the Trading with the Enemy Act 1917.\u00a0 Then in April of 1961, President John F. Kennedy<\/strong> gave the green light for the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs Invasion which failed when Cuban forces quickly defeated a covert plan involving Cuban exiles that began under the Eisenhower administration.\u00a0\u00a0 What was the consequence of those actions by the US government?\u00a0 It led the Cuban government to declare itself socialist aligning itself with the USSR.<\/p>\n

The US Congress then passed the\u00a0Foreign Assistance Act on September 4, 1961 that was part of the Cold War Act <\/em>that strictly prohibited any form of aid to Cuba and allowed the US President to impose a trade embargo against Cuba.\u00a0 Then on January 21, 1962 fourteen members of the Organization of American States<\/em> (OAS) voted against Cuba while six member states abstained. Sanctions were followed-up by the OAS on July 26, 1964 but a decade later the sanctions were \u201crescinded.\u201d\u00a0 Over the years, OAS and Cuban relations eased on the tensions that was inspired by Washington and the suspension of membership for Cuba was finally lifted on June 2009.<\/p>\n

Kennedy went as far as to extend extreme measures by\u00a0executive order by imposing trade restrictions that expanded the embargo to include all imports of Cuban-made products even if the products were made or assembled outside of Cuba.\u00a0 The newly amended Foreign Assistance Act<\/em>\u00a0of August 1962 strictly prohibited any country to provide Cuba with humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n

On September 7, 1962 the Cuban embargo was tightened so that all trade with Cuba was restricted except food and medicine.\u00a0 In October 1962, after the scare of the Cuban missile crisis, travel was restricted between the US and Cuba with the\u00a0Cuban Assets Control Regulations<\/em>\u00a0under the\u00a0Trading with the Enemy Act<\/em> as a response to the Cuban government hosting Soviet nuclear weapons as Cuban assets in the U.S. were frozen.\u00a0 Since then, Cuba has been struggling to get basic products and other desperately needed necessities.<\/p>\n

An article from October 2020 in the Business Standard \u2018US trade embargo causes $144 billion losses for Cuban economy\u2019<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The US trade embargo against\u00a0Cuba<\/em> has caused more than $144 billion in losses for the island nation\u2019s\u00a0economy in the past six decades, Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez said.<\/em><\/p>\n

The burden of mounting financial, economic and trade sanctions, \u201cfor a small\u00a0economy like Cuba\u2019s, is an overwhelming burden\u201d Xinhua news agency quoted Rodriguez as saying at a press conference while presenting the government\u2019s latest tally of the losses<\/em><\/p>\n

Former US President Donald Trump\u00a0<\/strong>imposed his \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d<\/em> strategy against Cuba by slapping on more than 240 plus new sanctions and to make matters worse, he added Cuba to the list of \u201cstate sponsors of terrorism\u201d again to keep his voter base in the Cuban-American community intact.\u00a0 Trump also imposed a travel ban for American tourists which hurt Cuba\u2019s tourism industry. \u00a0Trump also banned Cuba from buying important medicines and imposed sanctions on oil imports to Cuba from Venezuela.<\/p>\n

As much as I did not like Barack Obama, he did loosen some restrictions on US citizens who wanted to visit Cuba.\u00a0 Obama also removed Cuba from the list of \u201cstate sponsors of terrorism\u201d<\/em> although it was the US government who committed acts of terrorism against Cuba.\u00a0 In fact, anti-Castro terrorist groups such as Alpha-66<\/em> was responsible for several hotel bombings in Cuba in the mid-90\u2019s that even killed an Italian tourist and injuring many others.<\/p>\n

There were and still are other Anti-Castro terrorist groups operating mostly in South Florida such as Brothers to the Rescue<\/em> (BTTR), Cuban American National Foundation<\/em>(CANF) and several others involved in assassination attempts against Fidel Castro and advocated for regime change of the Cuban government.<\/p>\n

If you remember one famous terrorist who lived in Miami by the name of Luis Posada Carriles (who actually died a free man in 2018) was apprehended in 2005 as reported by \u00a0SFGATE.com (formally the San Francisco Chronicle) \u2018Arrest of Cuban ex-CIA figure puts Bush in tough political spot\u2019<\/em> said that \u201cCuban exile\u00a0Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative who is wanted in Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people, was seized by U.S. authorities in Miami on Tuesday.\u201d<\/em> The report laid out the facts on Posada\u2019s crimes against Cuba:<\/p>\n

A strident anti-communist, Posada long has been regarded as a terrorist by Cuba, Venezuela and other nations. But he is a hero to many in Florida\u2019s politically powerful anti-Castro Cuban community, who tend to support Republicans.\u00a0 \u201cHe is a fighter, a true believer who has fought for the freedom of his country,\u201d said\u00a0Jose Hernandez, president of the\u00a0Cuban American National Foundation in Miami, responding to news of Posada\u2019s arrest.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Posada is accused of masterminding the bombing of a Cubana jetliner over Barbados that killed many members of Cuba\u2019s\u00a0Pan American Games team on Oct. 6, 1976. Venezuelan authorities arrested Posada after tracing the bomb to two Venezuelans who had worked for Posada\u2019s private security agency in Venezuela\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In an interview conducted by the Miami Herald<\/em> \u201cPosada denied any role in the bombing.\u201d<\/em> Peter Kornbluh<\/strong>, the director of the Cuba Documentation Project<\/em> at the\u00a0National Security Archive at the time claimed that declassified documents from the CIA and FBI link Posada to prior meetings and had planned to place a bomb on the Cubana jetliner, \u201cPosada was involved in an unprecedented crime at the time for the Western Hemisphere,\u201d<\/em> Kornbluh continued,\u00a0\u201cPresident Bush should implement the principles of the war against terror that he espouses \u2014 that no nation should harbor terrorists.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>The article clearly explained what Posada was involved in:<\/p>\n

Posada has had a long history of planning assassinations and planting bombs in Cuban government offices since the early 1960s, when he was trained in demolition and guerrilla warfare by the CIA. The declassified information said the CIA paid him $300 a month in the 1960s and that he worked for the CIA at least from 1965 until June 1976.\u00a0 Over the years, FBI reports associated him with plans to blow up Soviet and Cuban freighters in Mexico, a plot to overthrow the Guatemalan government, and involvement in anti-Castro activities in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. In the 1980s, he worked with the CIA in El Salvador to ferry weapons to the\u00a0U.S.-backed Contra Army in its fight against Nicaragua\u2019s Sandinista government.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1997, Posada allegedly orchestrated a dozen bombings in Cuba intended to deter the growing tourism trade. An Italian businessman was killed and 11 people wounded as a result. In a taped interview with the\u00a0New York Times, he said: \u201cIt is sad that someone is dead, but we can\u2019t stop\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

After Posada was found not guilty and was acquitted in 2011 on charges of lying to immigration officials on how he entered the US and his involvement of terrorism against Cuba in 1997.\u00a0 Cuba called the verdict a \u201cfarce\u201d while Venezuela accused the US of harboring a well-known terrorist.<\/p>\n

One other episode of US imperialism\u2019s thirst for war against Cuba occurred in 1962 called \u2018Operation Northwoods\u2019<\/em> \u00a0which was a false-flag operation proposed by the US Department of Defense (DOD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff that called for the CIA and other clandestine organizations within the US government to carry-out acts of terrorism against the military and civilian targets on US soil to justify a war against Cuba.<\/p>\n

The idea was to blame Cuba for the terrorist attacks that also included hijacking planes so that they will be shot down or blowing up a US ship or even orchestrating random terrorist attacks within U.S. cities.\u00a0 They also detailed the possibility of assassinating or sinking boats filled with Cuban refugees, but the plan was flatly rejected by President John F. Kennedy.\u00a0 In 1981, Washington\u2019s endless war on Cuba led to biological warfare with help from the CIA and the US military who had launched an operation by unleashing \u2018Dengue Fever\u2019<\/em>\u00a0which is also known as\u00a0\u2018Hemorrhagic fever\u2019<\/em>\u00a0on Cuba effecting more than 273,000 people killing 158 including men, women and children.<\/p>\n

On September 6, 1981,\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0reported what Fidel Castro had said regarding the US government\u2019s role in biological warfare against Cuba:<\/p>\n

\u201dwe urge the United States Government to define its policy in\u00a0this field, to say whether the C.I.A. will or will not be authorized again- or has already been authorized \u2013 to organize attacks against leaders of the revolution and to use plagues against our plants, our animals and our people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

US President Ronald Reagan<\/strong> and his State Department\u2019s response was the following, “Mr. Castro\u2019s charges of possible United States involvement in the epidemic were \u201dtotally without foundation.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The State department blamed Castro\u2019s revolution as the cause of the outbreak<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cuban Government has always tried to blame the United States for its failures and its internal problems\u201d<\/em> continued \u201dThe Cuban revolution is a failure, and it is obviously easier to blame external forces like the United States than to admit those failures.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Then an all-out assault on the Cuban economy took place years later as the US congress passed the Helms\u2013Burton Act<\/em> or The\u00a0Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act<\/em> of 1996 that strengthened the embargo against Cuba.\u00a0 The law meant to expand the embargo\u2019s jurisdiction where it can apply its \u201cterritorial application\u201d that basically penalized foreign companies who do any sort of business with Cuba.\u00a0 US president Bill Clinton finalized the Helms-Burton Act <\/em>by signing it into law on March 12th, 1996.\u00a0 The passage of the Helms-Burton Act was a response to an incident that occurred on February 24, 1996 when Cuba\u2019s territorial claims had been compromised.\u00a0 Cuba dispatched two fighter jets who shot down two private planes operated by \u2018Brothers to the Rescue\u2019<\/em> which they describe as a \u201cMiami-based humanitarian international Search and Rescue support group\u201d<\/em> (codename for terrorists!) which was supposedly on a search mission on international waters.<\/p>\n

One important fact on the effects of the US embargo was that it did allow Cuba to resist any US interference in its domestic affairs as the support of the Cuban people grew stronger over time.\u00a0 In other words, if the US would have kept its hands out of Cuba, who knows what kind of government it would have developed without foreign interference, but the world will never know what Cuba could have turned into on its own.\u00a0 Washington\u2019s political establishment, the Military-Industrial Complex, multi-national bankers and corporations and the mainstream media along with Cuban-American community in Miami, New Jersey and elsewhere are continuing to criticize Cuba, some are even calling for a US intervention.\u00a0 Whatever actions Biden takes against Cuba, it will be along the lines of whatever past administrations have done and that is to tighten the screws on Cuba until the people scream uncle, for Uncle Sam that is.<\/p>\n

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This article was originally published on the author\u2019s blog site, Silent Crow News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Timothy Alexander Guzman<\/strong> is a frequent contributor to Global Research.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Before the rise of Cuba\u2019s Communist party, there was a US-backed fascist government under the leadership of Fulgencio Batista who ruled Cuba with an iron fist.\u00a0 Batista was elected in 1940 serving a 4-year term.\u00a0 Then Batista\u2019s reign of terror effectively began when he decided to run for re-election in 1952, but when his political party found itself practically in last place during the election with Roberto Agramonte of the Orthodox Party who was in the lead followed by Carlos Hevia of the\u00a0Authentic Party, he decided to lead a military coup and cancel the elections.\u00a0 The current president at the time, President Carlos Prio Socarras went into exile as a result.\u00a0 So what did Washington do?\u00a0 They immediately recognized Batista\u2019s government and gave him financial and military support among other benefits.\u00a0
\nIn the meantime, Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution that he originally supported and then made a radical move by cancelling whatever civil liberties the Cuban people had left.\u00a0 Batista had total control over the Cuban economy that was once on equal grounds with Italy in terms of economic growth. \u00a0One of Batista\u2019s first moves as a typical dictator in Latin America when he gave his full-support to wealthy landowners who owned basically almost all of the sugar plantations on the island.\u00a0
\nImage on the right: Fulgencio Batista (Public Domain)<\/p>\n

Under Batista, the divide between rich and poor grew although wages rose to keep the Cuban people somewhat temporarily satisfied at least for the time-being.\u00a0 However, government corruption was out of control while the American mafia (both Italian and Jewish) were in control of drugs, gambling and prostitution allowing these criminal enterprises to become profitable industries in Cuba. \u00a0Cuba\u2019s situation became so dire that the people began to get angry.\u00a0 So Batista made the decision to take over the media by way of censorship and he even created an anti-communist\u00a0 secret police force that was authorized to use torture and was even given permission to conduct public executions to install fear among the Cuban people.
\nIt is estimated that there were between 10,000 to 20,000 Cubans who were actually murdered with Washington\u2019s full-knowledge of the situation, but hey, to the US establishment that was American-style democracy in action.\u00a0 Then the birth of The July 26 Movement led by Fidel Castro took place against the US-backed dictatorship with an attack on the Moncada army barracks in Santiago, but was defeated by Batista\u2019s military. As university students and anti-Batista activists continued protests against Batista\u2019s social policies, the secret police forces increased repressive tactics to crush the protests.
\nIt was just a matter of time before the people rose up against the Batista\u2019s tyrannical regime as his actions paved the way for the Cuban revolution of 1959 and that was the consequences of the US government interfering in the politics and economy of a foreign country.\u00a0 It was inevitable.\u00a0 However, relations between the new Castro government and Dwight D. Eisenhower administration were at first a bit friendly, but when Cuba\u2019s new Agricultural Reform law confiscated lands that were owned and operated by US businesses while sponsoring anti-US revolutionary movements in the Caribbean, the relationship quickly turned sour.\u00a0 An arms embargo was imposed on Cuba on March 14, 1958 which was towards the end of an armed struggle between the\u00a0fascists led by Fulgencio Batista and the rebels led by\u00a0Fidel Castro which was the start of a series of embargos that eventual led to today\u2019s protests erupting in Cuba.
\nThe US government has been trying to overthrow Cuba\u2019s communist system since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, so the Eisenhower administration made a move against Cuba a year later.
\nSo in the summer of 1960, the US started an economic war so they imported less brown sugar from Cuba under the\u00a0Sugar Act of 1948 allowing Cuba to rely on the Soviet Union who agreed to purchase the sugar.
\nDuring that same time period, the US refused to export oil to Cuba making it reliant on crude oil from the Soviet Union, it was a move that prompted US companies to refuse refining Cuba\u2019s oil.\u00a0 Cuba responded to the actions imposed by the US by nationalizing three US-owned refineries that became the Union Cuba-Petroleo.\u00a0 The Eisenhower administration imposed Cuba\u2019s first trade embargo that restricted selling Cuba various products with the exception of food and medicine.
\nThen in the month of October, tensions rose between Washington and Havana when Castro decided to nationalize all US businesses without compensation.\u00a0 US diplomats were also expelled from Cuba that prompted Eisenhower to cut all diplomatic channels with Cuba on January 1961 allowing the US trade embargo to continue under the Trading with the Enemy Act 1917.\u00a0 Then in April of 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave the green light for the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs Invasion which failed when Cuban forces quickly defeated a covert plan involving Cuban exiles that began under the Eisenhower administration.\u00a0\u00a0 What was the consequence of those actions by the US government?\u00a0 It led the Cuban government to declare itself socialist aligning itself with the USSR.
\nThe US Congress then passed the\u00a0Foreign Assistance Act on September 4, 1961 that was part of the Cold War Act that strictly prohibited any form of aid to Cuba and allowed the US President to impose a trade embargo against Cuba.\u00a0 Then on January 21, 1962 fourteen members of the Organization of American States (OAS) voted against Cuba while six member states abstained. Sanctions were followed-up by the OAS on July 26, 1964 but a decade later the sanctions were \u201crescinded.\u201d\u00a0 Over the years, OAS and Cuban relations eased on the tensions that was inspired by Washington and the suspension of membership for Cuba was finally lifted on June 2009.
\nKennedy went as far as to extend extreme measures by\u00a0executive order by imposing trade restrictions that expanded the embargo to include all imports of Cuban-made products even if the products were made or assembled outside of Cuba.\u00a0 The newly amended Foreign Assistance Act\u00a0of August 1962 strictly prohibited any country to provide Cuba with humanitarian assistance.
\nOn September 7, 1962 the Cuban embargo was tightened so that all trade with Cuba was restricted except food and medicine.\u00a0 In October 1962, after the scare of the Cuban missile crisis, travel was restricted between the US and Cuba with the\u00a0Cuban Assets Control Regulations\u00a0under the\u00a0Trading with the Enemy Act as a response to the Cuban government hosting Soviet nuclear weapons as Cuban assets in the U.S. were frozen.\u00a0 Since then, Cuba has been struggling to get basic products and other desperately needed necessities.
\nAn article from October 2020 in the Business Standard \u2018US trade embargo causes $144 billion losses for Cuban economy\u2019:
\nThe US trade embargo against\u00a0Cuba has caused more than $144 billion in losses for the island nation\u2019s\u00a0economy in the past six decades, Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez said.
\nThe burden of mounting financial, economic and trade sanctions, \u201cfor a small\u00a0economy like Cuba\u2019s, is an overwhelming burden\u201d Xinhua news agency quoted Rodriguez as saying at a press conference while presenting the government\u2019s latest tally of the losses
\nFormer US President Donald Trump\u00a0imposed his \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d strategy against Cuba by slapping on more than 240 plus new sanctions and to make matters worse, he added Cuba to the list of \u201cstate sponsors of terrorism\u201d again to keep his voter base in the Cuban-American community intact.\u00a0 Trump also imposed a travel ban for American tourists which hurt Cuba\u2019s tourism industry. \u00a0Trump also banned Cuba from buying important medicines and imposed sanctions on oil imports to Cuba from Venezuela.
\nAs much as I did not like Barack Obama, he did loosen some restrictions on US citizens who wanted to visit Cuba.\u00a0 Obama also removed Cuba from the list of \u201cstate sponsors of terrorism\u201d although it was the US government who committed acts of terrorism against Cuba.\u00a0 In fact, anti-Castro terrorist groups such as Alpha-66 was responsible for several hotel bombings in Cuba in the mid-90\u2019s that even killed an Italian tourist and injuring many others.
\nThere were and still are other Anti-Castro terrorist groups operating mostly in South Florida such as Brothers to the Rescue (BTTR), Cuban American National Foundation(CANF) and several others involved in assassination attempts against Fidel Castro and advocated for regime change of the Cuban government.
\nIf you remember one famous terrorist who lived in Miami by the name of Luis Posada Carriles (who actually died a free man in 2018) was apprehended in 2005 as reported by \u00a0SFGATE.com (formally the San Francisco Chronicle) \u2018Arrest of Cuban ex-CIA figure puts Bush in tough political spot\u2019 said that \u201cCuban exile\u00a0Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative who is wanted in Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people, was seized by U.S. authorities in Miami on Tuesday.\u201d The report laid out the facts on Posada\u2019s crimes against Cuba:
\nA strident anti-communist, Posada long has been regarded as a terrorist by Cuba, Venezuela and other nations. But he is a hero to many in Florida\u2019s politically powerful anti-Castro Cuban community, who tend to support Republicans.\u00a0 \u201cHe is a fighter, a true believer who has fought for the freedom of his country,\u201d said\u00a0Jose Hernandez, president of the\u00a0Cuban American National Foundation in Miami, responding to news of Posada\u2019s arrest.\u00a0
\nPosada is accused of masterminding the bombing of a Cubana jetliner over Barbados that killed many members of Cuba\u2019s\u00a0Pan American Games team on Oct. 6, 1976. Venezuelan authorities arrested Posada after tracing the bomb to two Venezuelans who had worked for Posada\u2019s private security agency in Venezuela\u00a0
\nIn an interview conducted by the Miami Herald \u201cPosada denied any role in the bombing.\u201d Peter Kornbluh, the director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the\u00a0National Security Archive at the time claimed that declassified documents from the CIA and FBI link Posada to prior meetings and had planned to place a bomb on the Cubana jetliner, \u201cPosada was involved in an unprecedented crime at the time for the Western Hemisphere,\u201d Kornbluh continued,\u00a0\u201cPresident Bush should implement the principles of the war against terror that he espouses \u2014 that no nation should harbor terrorists.\u201d\u00a0 The article clearly explained what Posada was involved in:
\nPosada has had a long history of planning assassinations and planting bombs in Cuban government offices since the early 1960s, when he was trained in demolition and guerrilla warfare by the CIA. The declassified information said the CIA paid him $300 a month in the 1960s and that he worked for the CIA at least from 1965 until June 1976.\u00a0 Over the years, FBI reports associated him with plans to blow up Soviet and Cuban freighters in Mexico, a plot to overthrow the Guatemalan government, and involvement in anti-Castro activities in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. In the 1980s, he worked with the CIA in El Salvador to ferry weapons to the\u00a0U.S.-backed Contra Army in its fight against Nicaragua\u2019s Sandinista government.
\nIn 1997, Posada allegedly orchestrated a dozen bombings in Cuba intended to deter the growing tourism trade. An Italian businessman was killed and 11 people wounded as a result. In a taped interview with the\u00a0New York Times, he said: \u201cIt is sad that someone is dead, but we can\u2019t stop\u201d
\nAfter Posada was found not guilty and was acquitted in 2011 on charges of lying to immigration officials on how he entered the US and his involvement of terrorism against Cuba in 1997.\u00a0 Cuba called the verdict a \u201cfarce\u201d while Venezuela accused the US of harboring a well-known terrorist.
\nOne other episode of US imperialism\u2019s thirst for war against Cuba occurred in 1962 called \u2018Operation Northwoods\u2019 \u00a0which was a false-flag operation proposed by the US Department of Defense (DOD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff that called for the CIA and other clandestine organizations within the US government to carry-out acts of terrorism against the military and civilian targets on US soil to justify a war against Cuba.
\nThe idea was to blame Cuba for the terrorist attacks that also included hijacking planes so that they will be shot down or blowing up a US ship or even orchestrating random terrorist attacks within U.S. cities.\u00a0 They also detailed the possibility of assassinating or sinking boats filled with Cuban refugees, but the plan was flatly rejected by President John F. Kennedy.\u00a0 In 1981, Washington\u2019s endless war on Cuba led to biological warfare with help from the CIA and the US military who had launched an operation by unleashing \u2018Dengue Fever\u2019\u00a0which is also known as\u00a0\u2018Hemorrhagic fever\u2019\u00a0on Cuba effecting more than 273,000 people killing 158 including men, women and children.
\nOn September 6, 1981,\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0reported what Fidel Castro had said regarding the US government\u2019s role in biological warfare against Cuba:
\n\u201dwe urge the United States Government to define its policy in\u00a0this field, to say whether the C.I.A. will or will not be authorized again- or has already been authorized \u2013 to organize attacks against leaders of the revolution and to use plagues against our plants, our animals and our people.\u201d
\nUS President Ronald Reagan and his State Department\u2019s response was the following, \u201cMr. Castro\u2019s charges of possible United States involvement in the epidemic were \u201dtotally without foundation.\u201d\u00a0The State department blamed Castro\u2019s revolution as the cause of the outbreak
\n\u201cThe Cuban Government has always tried to blame the United States for its failures and its internal problems\u201d continued \u201dThe Cuban revolution is a failure, and it is obviously easier to blame external forces like the United States than to admit those failures.\u201d
\nThen an all-out assault on the Cuban economy took place years later as the US congress passed the Helms\u2013Burton Act or The\u00a0Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1996 that strengthened the embargo against Cuba.\u00a0 The law meant to expand the embargo\u2019s jurisdiction where it can apply its \u201cterritorial application\u201d that basically penalized foreign companies who do any sort of business with Cuba.\u00a0 US president Bill Clinton finalized the Helms-Burton Act by signing it into law on March 12th, 1996.\u00a0 The passage of the Helms-Burton Act was a response to an incident that occurred on February 24, 1996 when Cuba\u2019s territorial claims had been compromised.\u00a0 Cuba dispatched two fighter jets who shot down two private planes operated by \u2018Brothers to the Rescue\u2019 which they describe as a \u201cMiami-based humanitarian international Search and Rescue support group\u201d (codename for terrorists!) which was supposedly on a search mission on international waters.
\nOne important fact on the effects of the US embargo was that it did allow Cuba to resist any US interference in its domestic affairs as the support of the Cuban people grew stronger over time.\u00a0 In other words, if the US would have kept its hands out of Cuba, who knows what kind of government it would have developed without foreign interference, but the world will never know what Cuba could have turned into on its own.\u00a0 Washington\u2019s political establishment, the Military-Industrial Complex, multi-national bankers and corporations and the mainstream media along with Cuban-American community in Miami, New Jersey and elsewhere are continuing to criticize Cuba, some are even calling for a US intervention.\u00a0 Whatever actions Biden takes against Cuba, it will be along the lines of whatever past administrations have done and that is to tighten the screws on Cuba until the people scream uncle, for Uncle Sam that is.
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