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These are the Cuban newspaper front pages reporting on the mobilization of
May 17, 2005.
View the front pages of the newspapers publicizing the demonstrations in advance
here:
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pages.
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GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
Havana. May 17, 2005
MARCH AGAINST TERRORISM IN HAVANA
With the same pain of those
who lost their loved ones on 9/11
BY RAISA PAGES
Granma International staff writer—
AN image overtakes me as I march with my people on the US Interests Section in Havana. It is the final moments of a mother and her daughter, who is dying from Hemorrhagic Dengue, during one of the cruelest and most criminal points of the biological war on Cuba in 1981.
“She asked me to hold her hand, but when I took it it was already cold.” Rosa Acuña’s daughter was 10 years old. “They look her to the Borrás Hospital (in Habana province) for treatment and I never saw her again, she was a healthy, happy child...”
Casimira Camejo saw part of her life disappear when her 13-year-old daughter died in the epidemic. “Within a week I had lost her, a healthy girl.”
The faces of those mothers, recounting their tragedy, entrap me whenever I hear the word terrorism.
The Cuban commission that investigated the appearance of this deadly virus discovered via declassified US documents that the government of that country had the technical and scientific capacity (manufacture of the transmitting agent and the vaccine) to utilize Dengue-2 as a biological weapon.
The word terrorism has accompanied me since my childhood, since I saw an enormous pall of black smoke and the charred bodies of the victims of the explosion aboard La Coubre in the port of Havana. When I saw razed cane plantations, young men killed while teaching campesinos how to read.
All of that constricts my chest while walking with my family along the central 23 Street and I squeeze the arm of my niece, as sensitive as I am, but introverted. The 101 children who died of Hemorrhagic Dengue in 1981 could today be part of that youthful mass spilling onto the Havana Malecón. They could have been here, calling for justice and peace, with us.
But there are still many wolves on the prowl, hungry for blood in the den of Miami, a city that has been the refuge of much hatred in sick minds, for whom everything goes in their dirty war on Cuba.
While Posada Carriles is residing in a mansion without feeling persecuted and Orlando Bosch says that he sleeps like an angel, there are mothers weeping for their absent children, children who never knew their fathers, much pain without the compensation of justice.
The evil has not been exorcised as yet, it is still latent. A great international collective force is needed to banish what is twisted and cruel.
I look at the tranquility of the sea and cannot calm myself. The shouted slogans claiming justice are hushed for a minute and I hear the last dramatic words of the co-pilot of the Cubana passenger plane off the coast of Barbados, before it fell into the sea with 73 people on board.
The terrorist capos who sabotaged the Cuban aircraft in 1976 were trained and financed by the US government and its special agencies. Those who crashed the planes into the New York Twin Towers were also trained by the US government services to act against other countries, but on realizing that they had been deceived, they hurled themselves against their former allies.
In their eagerness to destroy the Revolution, US administrations have created a mutant gene called terrorism, which is corroding humanity and Lincoln’s own people.
Only the telluric force of a people and humanity can banish the obscure forces of an empire. The overwhelming magnetism of a compact masse calling for justice, the crushing force of reason and the truth, confirms for me that those who demand collective vindicating action are more noble and valiant than those who assume a posture of vengeance.
Those of us who marched peacefully on the US Interests Section have no animosity for the US people. Terrorism has no ambiguities. It is a pain constricting the chest, it is the same pain of mothers who have lost their children, it is the same pain that oppresses the hearts of the families of those who plunged to their death in the sabotaged Cubana aircraft. It is the same pain of those who lost their loved ones in the monstrous attack on the Twin Towers.
Cuba went out onto the streets for the victims of the Cuban and US peoples. And it will be there as many times as necessary, until the criminals and those who protect them are made to pay for their crimes.
Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch and a whole gang of shady
characters who have always acted on the orders of the US government, cannot
continue to enjoy impunity. As Fidel said before the march began: “We trust in
the ethical values of the people of the United States.”
http://granmai.cubaweb.com/ingles/2005/mayo/mar17/21dolor.html
Fidel Castro's remarks opening up the march
Inside the March
Havana, May 17 (PL) Inside the march:
Pictures captured by Mike Fuller
during the march today in the Cuban capital
against terrorism.
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