Terrorists in Miami Still Enjoy Impunity

A significant number of anti-Cuban terrorists based in Miami continue their activities there with total impunity. They even dare to publicize what they are doing, under the protection of the US Government according to Tuesday's Cuban Round Table informative broadcast.

The participants on the program reminded the audience about the continuing violations of US Federal laws by people belonging to the anti-Cuban Mafia that operate with total impunity in South Florida. There they promote political assassinations, subversive actions, all done in total synchronization with the aggressive plans of the White House against Cuba.

The Nuevo Herald, a Spanish language newspaper published in Miami, ran in its February 18, edition a piece in which Rodolfo Frometa, a self proclaimed terrorist and chief of the so called F4 Commandos, openly called for the blowing up of the Cuban Revolution and the assassination of President Fidel Castro during a meeting of Mafiosi elements in Miami, and later repeated his terrorist statements during a Miami TV interview.

Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January 1959, three thousand four hundred and seventy eight Cubans have been killed and two thousand and ninety nine were wounded and many left with permanent injuries as a consequence of terrorist attacks.

Cuban TV senior news analyst, Reinaldo Taladrid, reviewed the characteristics of the so called Committee to Help Insurgency in Cuba, and the eight groups that call themselves belligerent exiles, who participated in that meeting, and reminded to the audience about the numerous crimes that they have committed.

Taladrid explained that dangerous criminals continue to benefit from the use of a significant part of the tens of millions of dollars that Washington is providing to promote subversion and the organization of terrorism against Cuba. This is something that clearly exposes the double moral standards of the Bush Administration towards terrorism.

Those figures include large amounts of money funding counterrevolutionary organizations and mercenaries that act both inside and out of Cuba, some of them supposedly independent
journalists, Taladrid underscored.

Francisco Aruca, a journalist from a Miami alternative broadcast station, declared during a phone interview from that city during the course of The Round Table, that the city has historically treated anti-Cuban terrorists as "patriots", and has fought those who dare to
criticize them.

Granma daily newspaper Director General, Lazaro Barredo quoted US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, has publicly endorsed the Mafiosi anti-Cuban groups, while at the same time including Cuba in each and every list to isolate the Caribbean nation from the rest of the world and ignores whatever Cuba proposes for jointly fighting drug trafficking and terrorism.

Barredo recalled that despite the objections by the Cuban Government, Washington continues to implement the exclusive migration law known as the Cuba Adjustment Act of 1966, which promotes illegal departures to the US. This is something that has contributed to the loss of a
great number of lives of people attempting to cross the Florida Straits in makeshift boats.

The frustration of the Bush Administration in relation to their aspiration to intervene in Cuban internal affairs, and the fact that it included Cuba in the list of "unstable nations", shows the
increasing desperation of the US, something that The Round Table moderator Randy Alonso described as dangerous.

US researchers affirm that their nation's politics towards Cuba has re-assumed the objectives of the "Cold War", as a rational response to an apparent menace, which aims to force the Cubans to spend its economic resources on defense, Alonso stated.

During the Round Table a TV news report from a foreign TV network was shown. The report dealt with the official actions of the US Government aimed at shutting down the travel agencies that promote trips to Cuba from the United States. This was recently included in the reinforced harassing against ordinary citizens, intellectuals, academics and business people who attempt to travel to Cuba.

Information about the closing down of the Maria Isabel Sheraton Hotel in Mexico City was also broadcast during the program. The shutting down of the hotel took place yesterday in the Mexican capital, where the municipal authorities imposed a fifteen thousand dollars fine on
the facility.

Recently a delegation of Cuban officials was thrown out of the hotel, following US official insistence that the company which owns the hotel comply with the illegal extraterritorial US laws against Cuba.

Barbara Betancourt, senior international news analyst of Radio Havana Cuba then explained that Washington's actions in the European Union are designed to add new ingredients to reinforce the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, and then start up
similar actions against Venezuela, Bolivia and other Latin American nations that show resistance to the USA.

Lazaro Barredo underscored that it is the US extreme right wing forces who are the ones that generate the anti-Cuban policy guidelines, as an expression of their hate to the example of
sovereignty that Cuba represents.

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