(Cuban parliament prez) Alarcón proposes observers for Florida

[Mika]

Alarcón proposes observers for Florida

THE United Nations and the Carter Center, which send so many observer missions throughout the world, need to send observers to Florida to verify the electoral process “ in the country that prompted the largest election scandal of the century during the last elections,” affirmed Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, president of the Cuban parliament, speaking to Granma International.

“The U.S. system is diabolical,” commented Alarcón, whose extensive knowledge of the U.S. political world is well known. “It is designed precisely to make it very difficult to exercise the right to be registered. It is impossible to know who is included, who is not included. It’s going to be four years since the last election and the issue of those on the lists and that whole maneuver by Bush is still being discussed... He is already preparing the conditions for the next fraud.”

That is why, Alarcón emphasizes, the United Nations should respond positively to the request by a group of Black congressmen: “A very simple one. That they send an observer commission. Moreover, it is a very cheap mission because the United Nations is in the United States. There’s no need to travel to another country. It’s there.”

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“What impresses me in the ‘transition’ plan for Cuba published by the White House,” Alarcón commented, “is when they speak of the electoral system: the priority, the central element, is to eliminate the system of automatic, universal and free registration by which everyone, upon arriving at voting age, becomes a voter, and instead apply the U.S. system.”

“It seems like a bad joke,” he added.

More (long and good too).. http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/julio/vier30/32elec.html

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Kerry's stated policy on Cuba:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/8848574.htm

Under a Kerry administration Cuba will remain under US sanctions

Under a Kerry administration we will still be travel banned unless our travel is deemed politically worthy by US gov jackboots

Mr Kerry, Tear down the wall!

[dumpster_baby]

1. ha ha! I love the irony! We think America is such a great country

But we are not nearly as good as we think we are.

[soothsayer]

2. that cracks me up! n/t

[Judi Lynn]

3. Great remarks from Ricardo Alarcón, Mika.

Very wry. He keeps up on his reading, like a LOT of Cubans do.

Didn't have time to finish the article, will return when I have a better chance to really pay complete attention.

[Mika]

4. He is a brilliant man. You'll love this one too

Tribunal to judge US crimes against Cuba

(In Mexico) :evilgrin:

[Judi Lynn]

5. That should be interesting. Don't look for much coverage from our papers..

Quite a few countries will be represented, too. That's noteworthy. They'll be discussing openly the terrorism being launched from here to devastate and dempralize Cubans for over 45 years.

The article written by former U.S. C.I.A. agent, Phillip Agee was excellent. Most people have heard absolutely nothing about the ongoing war of terrorism, yet Agee isn't the only former CIA person to talk seriously about it. The information has always been there: it just hasn't been discussed by American media. People would start thinking quite differently about Cuba if they took a little time and started getting acquainted with the facts.

From the article:

One of the best sum-ups of the U.S. terrorist war against Cuba in the 1960’s came from Richard Helms, the former CIA Director, when testifying in 1975 before the Senate Committee investigating the CIA’s attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro. In admitting to "invasions of Cuba which we were constantly running under government aegis," he added:

"We had task forces that that were striking at Cuba constantly. We were attempting to blow up power plants. We were attempting to ruin sugar mills. We were attempting to do all kinds of things in this period. This was a matter of American government policy."
(snip/...)

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2003/julio/juev31/terrorism.html

Thanks for posting this link.

The war has gone through changes, and more and more of it assumed by Cuban "exile" terrorists operating in many instances with full awareness of the F.B.I. They have even bragged that the F.B.I.'s not going to stop them, or even try.

What's more, these same "exile" terrorists have taken their war all over the place, and expanded to include killing people in other countries they simply don't like politically. When you think about it, you have to marvel that the Watergate Cuban plumbers didn't just kill the night watchman who discovered them. I'm sure it wouldn't have bothered them a bit to do it. Above the law, of course. Jerks.


Orlando Bosch, Cuban bomber, terrorist who lives freely in Miami.

[Mika]

6. Don't forget about the "blowback" from our terra-ists (wingnut "exiles")

Below is a short list of terrorist acts perpetrated in the USA by the hard line miamicuban "exiles".

If this is what they do here in the country that hosts them, just imagine the ruthlessness of their ops in Cuba

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2000-04-20/mullin.html

1968 From MacArthur Causeway, pediatrician Orlando Bosch fires bazooka at a Polish freighter. (City of Miami later declares "Orlando Bosch Day." Federal agents will jail him in 1988.)

1972 Julio Iglesias, performing at a local nightclub, says he wouldn't mind "singing in front of Cubans." Audience erupts in anger. Singer requires police escort. Most radio stations drop Iglesias from playlists. One that doesn't, Radio Alegre, receives bomb threats.

1974 Exile leader José Elias de la Torriente murdered in his Coral Gables home after failing to carry out a planned invasion of Cuba.

1974 Bomb blast guts the office of Spanish-language magazine Replica.

1974 Several small Cuban businesses, citing threats, stop selling Replica.

1974 Three bombs explode near a Spanish-language radio station.

1974 Hector Diaz Limonta and Arturo Rodriguez Vives murdered in internecine exile power struggles.

1975 Luciano Nieves murdered after advocating peaceful coexistence with Cuba.

1975 Another bomb damages Replica's office.

1976 Rolando Masferrer and Ramon Donestevez murdered in internecine exile power struggles.

1976 Car bomb blows off legs of WQBA-AM news director Emilio Milian after he publicly condemns exile violence.

1977 Juan José Peruyero murdered in internecine exile power struggles.

1979 Cuban film Memories of Underdevelopment interrupted by gunfire and physical violence instigated by two exile groups.

1979 Bomb discovered at Padron Cigars, whose owner helped negotiate release of 3600 Cuban political prisoners.

1979 Bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.

1980 Another bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.

1980 Powerful anti-personnel bomb discovered at American Airways Charter, which arranges flights to Cuba.

1981 Bomb explodes at Mexican Consulate on Brickell Avenue in protest of relations with Cuba.

1981 Replica's office again damaged by a bomb.

1982 Two outlets of Hispania Interamericana, which ships medicine to Cuba, attacked by gunfire.

1982 Bomb explodes at Venezuelan Consulate in downtown Miami in protest of relations with Cuba.

1982 Bomb discovered at Nicaraguan Consulate.

1982 Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre defends $10,000 grant to exile commando group Alpha 66 by noting that the organization "has never been accused of terrorist activities inside the United States."

1983 Another bomb discovered at Replica.

1983 Another bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.

1983 Bomb explodes at Paradise International, which arranges travel to Cuba.

1983 Bomb explodes at Little Havana office of Continental National Bank, one of whose executives, Bernardo Benes, helped negotiate release of 3600 Cuban political prisoners.

1983 Miami City Commissioner Demetrio Perez seeks to honor exile terrorist Juan Felipe de la Cruz, accidentally killed while assembling a bomb. (Perez is now a member of the Miami-Dade County Public School Board and owner of the Lincoln-Martí private school where Elian Gonzalez is enrolled.)

1983 Gunfire shatters windows of three Little Havana businesses linked to Cuba.

1986 South Florida Peace Coalition members physically attacked in downtown Miami while demonstrating against Nicaraguan contra war.

1987 Bomb explodes at Cuba Envios, which ships packages to Cuba.

1987 Bomb explodes at Almacen El Español, which ships packages to Cuba.

1987 Bomb explodes at Cubanacan, which ships packages to Cuba.

1987 Car belonging to Bay of Pigs veteran is firebombed.

1987 Bomb explodes at Machi Viajes a Cuba, which arranges travel to Cuba.

1987 Bomb explodes outside Va Cuba, which ships packages to Cuba.

1988 Bomb explodes at Miami Cuba, which ships medical supplies to Cuba.

1988 Bomb threat against Iberia Airlines in protest of Spain's relations with Cuba.

1988 Bomb explodes outside Cuban Museum of Art and Culture after auction of paintings by Cuban artists.

1988 Bomb explodes outside home of Maria Cristina Herrera, organizer of a conference on U.S.-Cuba relations.

1988 Bomb threat against WQBA-AM after commentator denounces Herrera bombing.

1988 Bomb threat at local office of Immigration and Naturalization Service in protest of terrorist Orlando Bosch being jailed.

1988 Bomb explodes near home of Griselda Hidalgo, advocate of unrestricted travel to Cuba.

1988 Bomb damages Bele Cuba Express, which ships packages to Cuba.

1989 Another bomb discovered at Almacen El Español, which ships packages to Cuba.

1989 Two bombs explode at Marazul Charters, which arranges travel to Cuba.

1990 Another, more powerful, bomb explodes outside the Cuban Museum of Art and Culture.

1991 Using crowbars and hammers, exile crowd rips out and urinates on Calle Ocho "Walk of Fame" star of Mexican actress Veronica Castro, who had visited Cuba.

1992 Union Radio employee beaten and station vandalized by exiles looking for Francisco Aruca, who advocates an end to U.S. embargo.

1992 Cuban American National Foundation mounts campaign against the Miami Herald, whose executives then receive death threats and whose newsracks are defaced and smeared with feces.

1992 Americas Watch releases report stating that hard-line Miami exiles have created an environment in which "moderation can be a dangerous position."

1993 Inflamed by Radio Mambí commentator Armando Perez-Roura, Cuban exiles physically assault demonstrators lawfully protesting against U.S. embargo. Two police officers injured, sixteen arrests made. Miami City Commissioner Miriam Alonso then seeks to silence anti-embargo demonstrators: "We have to look at the legalities of whether the City of Miami can prevent them from expressing themselves."

1994 Human Rights Watch/Americas Group issues report stating that Miami exiles do not tolerate dissident opinions, that Spanish-language radio promotes aggression, and that local government leaders refuse to denounce acts of intimidation.

1994 Two firebombs explode at Replica magazine's office.

1994 Bomb threat to law office of Magda Montiel Davis following her videotaped exchange with Fidel Castro.

1996 Music promoter receives threatening calls, cancels local appearance of Cuba's La Orquesta Aragon.

1996 Patrons attending concert by Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba physically assaulted by 200 exile protesters. Transportation for exiles arranged by Dade County Commissioner Javier Souto.

1996 Firebomb explodes at Little Havana's Centro Vasco restaurant preceding concert by Cuban singer Rosita Fornes.

1996 Firebomb explodes at Marazul Charters, which arranges travel to Cuba.

1996 Arson committed at Tu Familia Shipping, which ships packages to Cuba.

1997 Bomb threats, death threats received by radio station WRTO-FM following its short-lived decision to include in its playlist songs by Cuban musicians.

1998 Bomb threat empties concert hall at MIDEM music conference during performance by 91-year-old Cuban musician Compay Segundo.

1998 Bomb threat received by Amnesia nightclub in Miami Beach preceding performance by Cuban musician Orlando "Maraca" Valle.

1998 Firebomb explodes at Amnesia nightclub preceding performance by Cuban singer Manolín.

1999 Violent protest at Miami Arena performance of Cuban band Los Van Van leaves one person injured, eleven arrested.

1999 Bomb threat received by Seville Hotel in Miami Beach preceding performance by Cuban singer Rosita Fornes. Hotel cancels concert.

[Mika]

8. Most Cubans understand more about American politics..

.. than most Americans.

How much do most Americans understand about Cuban politics? Near zero would be my guess (based on decades of experience).

[Mika]

7. That is why the UN should repond POSITIVELY to the US CBC

From the lead article,

That is why, Alarcón emphasizes, the United Nations should respond positively to the request by a group of Black congressmen: “A very simple one. That they send an observer commission. Moreover, it is a very cheap mission because the United Nations is in the United States. There’s no need to travel to another country. It’s there.”

Likewise, the OAS is in Washington, he added, as is the case with the Carter Center, “which spends its time traveling around the world, which is based in Atlanta.”

“And Atlanta is, I would say, one hour’s journey from Miami. It is very easy. They can go and observe and even go home to sleep at night. And that they should carry out a verification process, but starting now. Not just observing whether there are disturbances or not during the elections. Begin with the electoral rolls. With the right to be registered. With the campaign, which is the dirtiest thing in the world.”

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