Osvaldo Alvarez and Rene
Vidal denounce CodePink's message.
Havana. January 14, 2008
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/enero/lun14/Miami.html
Miami: terrorists provoke aggression
against pacifists demanding Posada’s arrest
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD —Granma International staff writer—
• MIAMI is undoubtedly the only city in the world where terrorists, with the collaboration of the official press, can openly organize violent protests without the fear of police intervention.
This occurred once again last Saturday when, following an announcement on Radio Mambí by the leader of the Alpha 66 terrorist group and a notice in the press by notorious terrorists, dozens of sympathizers of murderer and torturer Luis Posada Carriles attacked a group of pacifist women who were demanding his arrest.
Representatives of the pacifist organization Codepink, who arrived in Miami from various cities in the United States, were the victims of acts of intimidation and a placard that they were carrying was destroyed, without any intervention by local police agents who were present at the event.
In the days leading up to the event, Alpha 66 leader Ernesto Díaz put out a call to demonstrate over the airwaves of Radio Mambí, a local station that constantly uses its federal radio license to give support to individuals linked to terrorism.
The Codepink activists traveled to Miami to demand that the FBI act with the same rigor against Posada Carriles and Cuban-American terrorists as it does with terrorists from anywhere else and that Posada should be put on the "Most Wanted" list.
Representatives from the women’s group had previously announced that they intended to visit the Versailles restaurant, the lair of the Miami terrorist mafia and, from that moment, began to receive a number of threatening phone calls.
Displayed on the Codepink vehicle that was attacked was a placard that said "Wanted by the FBI: Luis Posada for terrorism," showing Posada’s photo and the number of the FBI in Miami: (305) 944 9101.
Alpha 66 – the group that provoked the aggression – is a terrorist organization founded at the beginning of the 1960s under the direction of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), whose endless history of aggression against Cuba has been widely documented, both on the island and by the U.S. authorities themselves.
The murderous organization has its premises on an avenue in central Miami and, for close to 50 years, has benefited from total tolerance and, frequently, from the complicity of both the U.S. federal police and local agents.
THREE TERRORISTS SUPPORTED BY THE MAFIOSO PRESS
The Mafioso press in Miami also circulated another message to prevent Codepink’s presence, signed by individuals likewise identified with Alpha 66, who for months have been organizing events in support of Posada aimed at presenting his release as acceptable in the eyes of George W. Bush’s judicial apparatus.
This small committee, initiated by terrorist Santiago Alvarez, the main culprit behind Posada’s illegal arrival on U.S. territory, is headed by Nelly Rojas, an old accomplice whom the terrorist employs as a secretary, and by notorious terrorists Héctor Fabián and Reinol Rodríguez.
In any other part of the world, Nelly Rojas, a Venezuelan citizen residing in the United States with the indulgence of the immigration services and in the company of her husband Pedro Morales, would have already been detained for terrorism. Rojas has collaborated with Posada Carriles since the 1970s when the CIA agent joined the DISIP and murdered and tortured young Venezuelan revolutionaries under the name of Captain Basilio.
Rojas was an accomplice in the activities of CORU, the organization created by Posada, with Frank Castro, Orlando Bosch and other CIA collaborators. Together with other Venezuelans of Cuban origin such as Joaquín Chaffardet, Francisco "Paco" Pimentel, Salvador Romaní Orúe, Ricardo Koesling and her own husband – many of whom were linked to the Cuban-American National Foundation – she was constantly involved in violent conspiratorial activities.
In 1997, Rojas was kept informed of the campaign of terrorism against Cuba being developed by Posada, as has been demonstrated in the "Fatal Calls" article by Cuban journalist and investigator Reinaldo Taladrid, that was published on the island. She took part in the assassination attempt on President Fidel Castro on Isla Margarita, that was accidentally interrupted thanks to the U.S Coastguard’s interception of La Esperanza yacht.
Héctor Francisco Alfonso Ruiz, alias Héctor Fabián, another organizer of Saturday’s counter-demonstration, was an active member of a wide variety of groups encouraged by U.S. intelligence in the 1960s. He belonged to the Directorio Insurreccional Nacionalista, the Frente de Liberación Cubano, and in 1968, joined Poder Cubano directed by his friend Orlando Bosch.
Even the FBI knows how, in 1972, he participated in bomb attacks on four agencies that sent packages to Cuba; how in 1978, on behalf of CORU, he took part in an attack on the Rio Bobabo boat in Peru; and how, from Miami, he sent letter bombs to the Cuban embassies in Mexico, Canada, Argentina and Peru.
With respect to Reinol Rodríguez, a secret document dating back to August 16, 1978 (with reference No. 2-471) that has been declassified by the FBI, identifies him as head of the CORU in Puerto Rico and later of the so-called Anti-Communist Latin American Army (ELAC). The FBI is aware that he is the murderer of young activist Carlos Muñiz Varela, cowardly executed on April 28, 1979.
Among the professional demonstrators who attacked the Codepink activists were Miguel Saavedra, the Vigilia Mambisa chief and known collaborator of Congressman Lincoln Díaz-Balart, who is always willing to bring together his group of delinquents – many of them with a criminal record – to take part in public demonstrations. Díaz-Balart is notorious for having organized the interruption of the vote recount that gave George W. Bush the victory in the 2000 presidential elections.
The Codepink women’s group became famous last year when members interrupted an audience by Condoleezza Rice, Bush’s secretary of state. With respect to the Posada case, Codepink is also demanding that the U.S. government extradites him to Venezuela where he has been wanted by the judicial system since his escape from the prison in which he was being held for the attack on a Cubana airliner that was destroyed mid-flight in 1976 with 73 people on board.
EVERYTHING TO SAVE THE BUSH FAMILY’S TERRORIST
In a city like Miami, where hundreds of individuals have participated in terrorist attacks – frequently as mercenaries for the CIA – for the close to 50 years during which the U.S. has been carrying out its dirty war against Cuba, only one terrorist appears on the "Most Wanted" website of the local FBI.
That man is a Saudi called Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, wanted "in connection with possible terrorist threats" against the United States.
Luis Posada Carriles is strolling freely around Miami, awaiting a decision by the Appeals Court of New Orleans in a case that has been managed by the anti-terrorist judges of Bush’s Justice Department. Since his arrest the delaying tactics have been multiplied so that the most dangerous terrorist on the continent, a CIA agent with links to the Bush family, does not have to respond for his crimes.
Translated by Granma International
Cuban exile militant stirs up foes, fans
BY DAVID QUINONES
dquinones@MiamiHerald.com
http://www.miamiherald.com/416/story/376973.html
The image of Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles -- a freedom fighter to some, a terrorist to others -- appeared on an eight-foot-wide billboard float in Little Havana.
On Saturday, one's opinion of Posada was dependent on one's geography.
To a small contingent of out-of-town protesters gathered in front of Versailles Cafe on Calle Ocho, Posada is a symbol of terror. To more than 500 Miami locals who showed up on the same street, Posada is a man to be revered.
The San Francisco-based group CodePink called for Posada, a former CIA operative, to be imprisoned. They rode in a truck toting a sign featuring a mugshot of Posada that read: ``Wanted by the FBI: Luis Posada Carriles for terrorism.''
The pro-Posada group wouldn't have any part of it, so they tried to rip down the two-sided billboard. That prompted the CodePink protesters to abandon their demonstration -- at least in Little Havana.
Miami police reported no arrests during the short demonstration.
CodePink organizers, who brought together about 15 protesters, said they came to Miami for the week to get signatures on postcards advocating Posada's imprisonment. They seemed taken aback by the backlash from the pro-Posada protesters.
''We don't want this here, and you have no place here in our community,'' Laura Vianello, a member of the exile advocacy group Vigilia Mambisa, shouted to the crowd over a megaphone moments after the fracas.
''It was completely ridiculous and the Miami police did nothing to stop it,'' charged Medea Benjamin, speaking for CodePink.
Posada's attorney, Arturo Hernandez, said CodePink is out of line.
'My client has been given the moniker of `terrorist,' but the reality is my client has been cleared not once but twice, and in two different countries,'' he said.
Posada, a Cuban-born Venezuelan national, gained notoriety in 1976 when employees of his detective agency were implicated in the bombing of Air Cubana Flight 455.
Venezuela accused him of treason for the bombing. He was charged in civil court but the case was never tried. Posada spent nine years in a Caracas prison. In 1985, he escaped to El Salvador before finding his way to Miami.
Posada, 80, sneaked into the United States in 2005, and was indicted for lying about how he entered the country. After two years of court wranglings, the U.S. government dropped all charges.
Cuba wants to try Posada for a series of bombings at island tourist sites in 1997 that killed an Italian tourist.
An immigration judge ruled the Cuban-born Posada cannot be deported to Cuba or Venezuela, where he's a naturalized citizen, because he could face torture for his alleged anti-Castro violence.
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un-sentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/local/sfl-flrndcodepink0113pnjan13,0,6522578.story South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Protest against Luis Posada Carriles met with resistance, derailed Activists abort plan after meeting resistance
By Ruth Morris
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
January 13, 2008
MIAMI
Female peace activists in pink dresses and tiaras demanded the arrest of anti-communist militant Luis Posada Carriles Saturday, but aborted plans for a demonstration in Little Havana after his supporters rushed their vehicle.
The activists, from the Codepink anti-war group, had planned to speak to reporters outside the landmark Versailles restaurant to publicize their campaign against Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative wanted in Venezuela in connection with the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner.
However, the five women, who were accompanied by at least one man, were met by about 200 irate Cuban-Americans who consider Posada Carriles a champion of freedom. Several charged at the activists' truck as they arrived, tearing at its pink fringe, while others jeered and shouted insults. The truck then drove on.
"We are not in Cuba. We're supposed to have free speech," said Medea Benjamin, one of Codepink's founders. Supporters of Posada Carriles ran through the streets of Little Havana looking for the Codepink truck while bystanders shouted, "Prostitutes!" at the small group. The activists eventually decided to meet with journalists in the parking lot of a downtown police station three miles away.
Benjamin said the group would stick with plans to distribute postcards in Miami and Miami Beach, asking the FBI to put Posada Carriles on its most-wanted list. Codepink is also offering to pay for billboards with the same message.
"He's a known terrorist. This man should be behind bars," Benjamin said. "We feel our government should be consistent. We go looking for terrorists all over the world."
A U.S. judge dismissed seven counts of immigration fraud against Posada Carriles, 80, in May, ruling that agents were deceitful in interviews with him.
Posada Carriles once held permanent resident status in the United States, but it expired and he re-entered the country illegally two years ago.
Benjamin said the government should press more serious terrorism charges related to his alleged involvement in the airline attack, which killed 73 people, and bombings of Havana tourism spots. In another incident, Posada Carriles was convicted in Panama on charges he plotted to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. He was pardoned four years later, in 2004.
His supporters say Posada Carriles is a patriot and a hero in their struggle against Castro's communist regime. Posada Carriles has kept a low profile since his release from U.S. detention last year, although his paintings have appeared in a Little Havana gallery.
At Versailles, a crowd of mostly older men waved Cuban flags and banners. One poster read: "Pink is close to red." Nearby, a man wore a T-shirt depicting revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara and the label "murderer."
"Posada Carriles is no terrorist. The terrorist is Fidel Castro," said Rene Vidal, 77, among those gathered.
Copyright © 2008, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Contrarrevolución anticubana de Miami agrede a pacifistas
13 de enero de 2008
01:13:41 GMT
La
organización antibélica Codepink exige a Bush que incluya a
Posada Carriles en la relación de terroristas más buscados por
el FBI
El acto fue convocado por los
pacifistas en plena Calle Ocho de Miami, y pretendían entablar
un debate en el que afloraran sus argumentos.
MIAMI.— A pesar de que algunos de ellos habían adelantado que sería una «manifestación con cordura», representantes de la contrarrevolución anticubana en Miami la emprendieron contra miembros de la organización antibélica Codepink, cuando sus activistas enarbolaban carteles para que el gobierno de Bush encause a Luis Posada Carriles como terrorista, y contra la guerra en Iraq.
Cuatro mujeres y dos hombres que actuaban como portavoces de la organización viajaron desde San Francisco con tal propósito, e iniciaban así una campaña denominada «El más buscado», que remarca la hipocresía de la Casa Blanca en su declarado combate al terror mientras da albergue en su país a un terrorista como Posada. También exigen a la administración republicana la extradición del criminal a Venezuela.
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| Codepink desplegó su denuncia a la hipócrita política de Bush en plena Calle Ocho de Miami. Foto: Reuters |
Frente a ello, EFE habló de un «conato de violencia» e «intentos de agresión» por parte de los extremistas que requirió la presencia de la policía, cuando los compinches de Posada en Miami intentaron arrebatarles sus carteles.
Sin embargo, Notimex dio cuenta de las quejas de los miembros de Codepink, quienes afirmaron que los agentes policíacos no hicieron nada por contener la destrucción por los otros de una pancarta que rezaba: «Buscado por el FBI: Luis Posada por terrorismo».
Según había anunciado en su edición de este lunes El Nuevo Herald, la convocatoria la hizo el denominado Comité de Apoyo a Luis Posada Carriles (CALPC) y fue secundada por grupos que el diario calificó de «línea intransigente», y entre los que se destaca la organización terrorista y forjadora de mercenarios, Alpha 66.
Paradójicamente con su nada sorprendente comportamiento agresivo y soez de este sábado, la también muy contrarrevolucionaria Radio Mambí había exhortado a los manifestantes a «no dejarse provocar» por los antibelicistas.
Codepink es una organización pacifista integrada fundamentalmente por mujeres que nació al calor de la oposición a la guerra en Iraq. Su campaña anti-Posada incluye recogida de firmas en las calles de Miami, una vigilia y una protesta frente a la oficina de la congresista por Florida, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.