Unfinished business between Cuba and the United States
Unfinished business between Cuba and the United States
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Carmelo Ruiz
A memorial erected in recognition of the 73 passengers and 5 crew killed in the crash of Cubana Flight 455 in October, 6. 1976. Photo by BCF.
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Even with the resumption of diplomatic relations between Washington and Havana, the two countries have unfinished business to take care of. There is the issue of terrorism — the terrorism that U.S.-based exile extremist outfits perpetrated against Cuba.
These groups sought for decades through violence and terror to prevent a rapprochement between Cuba and the United States. Their attacks included arson, bombings and targeted assassinations and claimed many Cuban lives. Declassified documents show the CIA trained a lot of these terrorists in the early 1960s as part of the failed Bay of Pigs landing and the violent Operation Mongoose directed toward regime change in Cuba.
Cuban exiles participated in the infamous Operation Condor, set up by South American dictatorships to eliminate their foes abroad. It included the 1976 murder of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier in the streets of Washington, D.C., a crime that Cuban expatriates carried out.
The vilest of all acts that these U.S.-based extremists committed was the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger airliner in Barbados, in which all 73 occupants were killed. Exile militant Luis Posada Carriles has been directly linked to this crime in declassified CIA and FBI documents. He is currently free and living in Miami, and the Cuban government is requesting his extradition.
More:
http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/08/188276/unfinished-business-between-cuba-and-united-states#sthash.iYOOtuRI.dpuf
Good reads:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016131005
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