But Wait: Attorney Says Bay of Pigs Vet Will Collect That $1 Billion From Castro

[Mika]

As of the time of this posting, there are some interesting posts in the comments section below this Miami New Times article.


But Wait: Attorney Says Bay of Pigs Vet Will Collect That $1 Billion From Castro
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2009/05/miami_judge_orders_castro_to_p.php

First Fidel Castro's cronies took his father's car dealership. Then, they took his father's life.

Now, Gustavo Villoldo has a legal verdict for $1 billion against El Commandante himself. And he fully intends to collect, as crazy as it sounds.

Miami-Dade County Judge Peter Adrien awarded Villoldo $1.179 billion today for lost income and pain and suffering and in punitive damages against the Cuban dictator, telling the court that "what they did was torture this family and tear it apart."

Jeremy Alters, who litigated Villoldo's case along with Beth Vogelsang, says the verdict is more than just symbolic.

"We will collect a large portion of it," Alters tells Riptide. "There are assets belonging to Castro that are seized around the world right now. And with the opening of relations between the U.S. and Cuba to come, there are debts to society to be paid before that happens."

Villoldo is an incredible character -- he survived the Bay of Pigs invasion, then tracked Che Guevera for the CIA all the way to Che's death in the mountains of Bolivia. Read more about him and the verdict after the jump.

Before Castro took power, Villoldo's father owned a GM dealership in Cuba. Che Guevera immediately seized it when he took over the nation's economy. A few weeks later, under the threat of execution, Villoldo's father killed himself with an overdose of sleeping pills.

"This torture happened 50 years ago, but it's lasted a lifetime for this family," Alters says.

Villoldo fled Cuba a few weeks after his father's death. He took part in the Bay of Pigs invasion, became an officer in the U.S. Army and then helped the CIA track Che to his ill-fated revolution in Bolivia.

"Gustavo is a hero. No one deserves this award more than him," Alters says.

[magbana]

1. And here is one from Karen Wald . . .

TOPIC: MOST DISGUSTING RIP-OFF TO DATE: Miami judge awards $1B in lawsuit
against Cuba
http://groups.google.com/group/Cuba-Inside-Out/t/2adf72a134728614?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, May 29 2009 4:58 pm
From: "Karen Lee Wald"


The man should be boiled in oil, not rewarded with a billion dollars -- money that legitimately belongs to the Cuban people (some of which would go to US companies with legitimate claims for the value of nationalized properties if the US government would ever recognize the Cuba government and enter into honest negotiations for a just settlement. But at the rate that Miami judges have been awarding millions upon millions of Cuba's frozen assets in US banks to people who have absolutely no legitimate claim: one whose father was shot down while on bombing missions over Cuba, one who unknowingly married a Cuban intelligence officer sent to Miami to report on the activities of the terrorists who operate from there -- there will be nothing left for those companies when settlement negotiations begin.
But this one is even more offensive than the previous ones. If we believe his own autobiographical accounts, he is the one responsible for having the injured and captured Che shot in cold blood, and his hands cut off to prevent later identification and glorification of the body.....

[magbana]

2. And then, Karen does a riff on Felix Rodriguez (Posse buddy of Villoldo seeking Che) and Daddy Bush

Thought the background on Rodriguez would give a better sense of the gang that Villoldo rides with.
magbana

TOPIC: Get ready to puke: MIAMI NEW TIMES: But Wait: Attorney Says Bay of Pigs
Vet Will Collect That $1 Billion From Castro
http://groups.google.com/group/Cuba-Inside-Out/t/59041a33d647eee9?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, May 29 2009 8:17 pm
From: "Karen Lee Wald"


The only person I can think of more despicable than Villoldo is Felix Rodriguez, although there are at least a half-zosen more that come close.... (see more below)
----- Original Message -----
From: Walter Lippmann
To: CubaNews
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 6:25 PM
Subject: MIAMI NEW TIMES: But Wait: Attorney Says Bay of Pigs Vet Will Collect That $1 Billion From Castro


(I'm not a lawyer, but how can they blame Fidel Castro
or the Cuban government for this man's FATHER committing
suicide fifty years ago? And isn't attempting to commit suicide
a crime? Take note that this enthusiastic commentary is
in the supposedly "alternative" MIAMI NEW TIMES, too.)
KLW: I think the Miami New Times ceased to be "alternative" or in any way progressive awhile ago. Maybe some rightwing publisher bought it....

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MIAMI NEW TIMES

But Wait: Attorney Says Bay of Pigs Vet Will Collect That $1 Billion From Castro

By Tim Elfrink in NewsFriday, May. 29 2009 @ 4:45PM

First Fidel Castro's cronies took his father's car dealership. Then, they took his father's life.

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2009/05/miami_judge_orders_castro_to_p.php

Time to Pay Up, Budd

Now, Gustavo Villoldo has a legal verdict for $1 billion against El Commandante himself. And he fully intends to collect, as crazy as it sounds.

Miami-Dade County Judge Peter Adrien awarded Villoldo $1.179 billion today for lost income and pain and suffering and in punitive damages against the Cuban dictator, telling the court that "what they did was torture this family and tear it apart."

Jeremy Alters, who litigated Villoldo's case along with Beth Vogelsang, says the verdict is more than just symbolic.

"We will collect a large portion of it," Alters tells Riptide. "There are assets belonging to Castro that are seized around the world right now. And with the opening of relations between the U.S. and Cuba to come, there are debts to society to be paid before that happens."

Villoldo is an incredible character -- he survived the Bay of Pigs invasion, then tracked Che Guevera for the CIA all the way to Che's death in the mountains of Bolivia. Read more about him and the verdict after the jump.

Before Castro took power, Villoldo's father owned a GM dealership in Cuba. Che Guevera immediately seized it when he took over the nation's economy. A few weeks later, under the threat of execution, Villoldo's father killed himself with an overdose of sleeping pills.

"This torture happened 50 years ago, but it's lasted a lifetime for this family," Alters says.

Villoldo fled Cuba a few weeks after his father's death. He took part in the Bay of Pigs invasion, became an officer in the U.S. Army and then helped the CIA track Che to his ill-fated revolution in Bolivia.

"Gustavo is a hero. No one deserves this award more than him," Alters says.

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From: "Walter Lippmann" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Portrait of a man attacking John Kerry politically
Date: Saturday, September 25, 2004 11:49 AM

GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
July 24, 2002

(Here's the man who is going after John Kerry as documented
in a major feature in the Miami New Times current issue:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2004-09-23/metro.html .)
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George and Félix: the tale of two old friends

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/33alo/30george-i.html

• They first met in 1960 • One was the owner of a oil
prospecting company and CIA member • The other, a fugitive
and former agent of dictator Fulgencio Batista’s repressive
apparatus • After four decades of parallel activities, the
U.S. president and his father meet up with the CIA’s most
infamous Cuban-American agents

BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD
(Special for Granma International)

THEY say that George, a CIA agent at the time, got to know
Félix, a former member of Batista’s police force, when he
was recruiting Cuban immigrants to form a troop of killers
and saboteurs for actions on Cuban territory at the same
time as the Bay of Pigs invasion.

George denies it; Félix won’t talk about it. But various
researchers firmly confirm it, backed-up by declassified
documents.

Despite living in Houston, Texas, George Herbert Walker
Bush traveled to Miami every week in 1960-61 to take an
active part in the creation of Operation 40, the special
troop conceived by CIA deputy director Charles Cabell. That
was how George recruited Félix, but he also met with
various people of that ilk such as Luis Posada Carriles,
Frank Sturgis, E. Howard Hunt, Rafael Quintero, José
Basulto, Herminio Díaz and Bernard Barker — all
subsequently linked to dirty tricks attributed to members
of the Miami mafia. And, most importantly, to the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Nephew of José Antonio "Toto" Mendigutia Silvera, minister
of public works and close collaborator of Fulgencio
Batista, the young Félix Rodríguez (or more precisely Félix
Ismael Fernando José Rodríguez Mendiglutia), former Havana
Military Academy student and member of Batista’s repressive
apparatus, had all the characteristics for success within
the CIA’s elite group.

George Bush was also watching over his business interests
in Houston, New Orleans and Miami: Zapata Petroleum was
founded in 1953 in association with the Liedtke brothers.
But he was particularly interested in Zapata Offshore, a
subsidiary company later identified as a CIA front.

The newly recruited Félix Rodríguez left for the U.S. base
at the Panama Canal, receiving training in sabotage and
terrorism. Some months later, at the end of 1960, the CIA
gave him his first mission. On February 14, 1961 he and
other agents arrived in Cuba aboard a vessel that dropped
them off in the vicinity of Arcos de Canasi, on the border
of Habana and Matanzas provinces.

They landed with two tons of equipment and explosives,
discovered a few days later by Cuban state security, thanks
to an agent infiltrated in the operation.

Félix Rodríguez also came with orders for the island’s
counterrevolutionaries; among other things they were to
blow up the bridge at Bacunayagua at the same time as the
planned invasion.

MR. BUSH OF THE CIA

According to former CIA agent Fletcher Prouty, it was
George Bush himself who handed over three boats to the
intelligence agency’s agents in Guatemala who were
preparing the operation. The vessels were named Barbara
(his wife’s name), Houston (his city) and Zapata (his
company).

The moment for the famous invasion arrived. It failed
miserably in less than 72 hours. Not only did the Cuban
Revolution crush the invading army but over one thousand
mercenaries were captured.

Pursued by state security, Rodríguez hid in a
counterrevolutionary´s house. He contacted a Spanish
embassy official, a CIA collaborator, who helped him leave
the country.

After the Bay of Pigs failure, the Miami extremists
furiously accused the Kennedy government of having
"betrayed" them. But the president was also furious. He
sacked Allen Dulles, the CIA’s director, its deputy
director Charles Cabell, and Dick Bissell, the head of
undercover operations.

Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Some of those
investigating the matter considered the possible
implication of various Cuban conspirators, including Félix
Rodríguez, Frank Sturgis, Herminio Díaz, Orlando Bosch and
the Guillermo Brothers, plus Ignacio Novo Sampoll. However,
the role of George Bush, Richard Nixon and various Texas
oil barons was also brought into question.

On the day of Kennedy’s murder, George Bush was in Texas.
He has always maintained that he can’t recollect his
precise movements. Neither does Félix Rodríguez remember
his.

Nevertheless, years later a letter written by FBI head J.
Edgar Hoover — explaining that a certain Mr. George Bush of
the CIA had been informed of the reaction of Miami’s
Cuban-American circles after the assassination — was
declassified.

IN FORT BENNING WITH MAS AND POSADA

On his return from Cuba and on CIA orders, Félix Rodríguez
passed a course in Fort Benning alongside the most
fanatical elements of Operation 40 — including Luis Posada
Carriles, later called the hemisphere’s most dangerous
terrorist. Also on the course was Jorge Mas Canosa, founder
and leader of the Cuban American National Foundation
(CANF).

Rodríguez was then dispatched to Nicaragua with a group of
agents that attacked the Spanish vessel Sierra de Aranzazu
in reprisal for Spain’s relations with Cuba. The terrorist
attack created such a scandal that the CIA withdrew its
anti-Cuban, allegedly elite, troops.

In 1964, George Bush ran for Congress as part of the team
of presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, an advocate of
nuclear weapons. He failed to win. In 1966 however, he was
elected as a moderate.

The following year, under the name Félix Ramos Medina,
Félix Rodríguez was in Bolivia acting as a CIA linkman in
the company’s attempts to find Ernesto "Che" Guevara. He
was assigned to the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and
later to Valle Grande. On October 9, he flew by helicopter
to La Higuera to interrogate Che. After questioning the
famous guerrilla — to no avail, despite applying all the
brutal tactics taught by his Fort Benning instructors —
Félix "Ramos" Rodríguez followed his bosses’ instructions
and ordered a Bolivian soldier to kill the prisoner.

Afterwards, imitating some soldiers who were present, the
CIA man let off a round over Che’s body.

These days he brags about having "killed Che." He possesses
the guerrilla’s Rolex watch and a transcript of the
interrogation.

Richard Nixon was in the White House from 1968-73. During
that time, George Bush headed the National Republican
Committee, maintaining strong contacts with the
Cuban-Americans. "Eminent" Miami mafia member Bebe Rebozo
was a close friend of his.

On February 24, 1969, Rodríguez obtained U.S. citizenship.
The CIA then sent him to Viet Nam, where he spent his time
torturing and interrogating prisoners, employing extreme
violence. He was an active participant in the Phoenix
Program, a severely repressive operation that, according to
former CIA chief William Colby, left 26,369 dead out of the
33,350 people detained in U.S. interrogation centers.

In 1970, Bush stood as a Senate candidate. He failed to get
elected.

That same year, Félix Rodríguez joined Air America, another
CIA front company, trafficking heroin from Laos to the U.S.
drugs network of former Havana godfather Santos Traficante.
The purpose of the smuggling was to influence the Laotian
conflict by winning the support of isolated communities.
The operation was led by Donald Gregg, who took his orders
from Theodore Shackley.

It was on this job that George’s buddy learnt the trade he
was to practice years later in Central America.

In 1971, Nixon named Bush ambassador to the United Nations.

Two years later, the Watergate scandal — breaking and
entering the Democratic Party’s Washington headquarters —
erupted. The suspects were certain Cuban immigrants and CIA
agents linked to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion: Frank
Sturgis, E. Howard Hunt, Eugenio Rolando Martínez and
Bernard Baker. And Félix Rodríguez.

DISINFORMING CONGRESS

August 1974 saw Nixon’s successor, President Gerald Ford,
appoint George Bush as head of the CIA. Orlando Bosch was
put in charge of gathering all the Miami terrorist groups
under one single umbrella, the infamous CORU, later
responsible for around 100 acts of terrorism in over 25
countries.

Félix Rodríguez collaborated with Bush, fulfilling various
"missions" in Uruguay, Brazil, Costa Rica, Honduras,
Guatemala and El Salvador.

It was Bush himself who disinformed Congress on the most
disastrous CORU attempt — the explosion aboard a Cubana
aircraft in mid-flight, causing the death of 73 persons.

Nevertheless, the Venezuelan police identified Orlando
Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles as those responsible for the
attack. Both were arrested and imprisoned.

Bush also disinformed Congress over the death of Orlando
Letelier, former Chilean minister and one-time ambassador
to the United States, and that of his assistant, human
rights activist Ms. Ronni Moffit. The two were murdered in
broad daylight in Washington by Pinochet agents and
Cuban-American killers, "loaned" by the Guillermo Brothers
and Ignacio Novo Sampoll, more of Félix Rodríguez’s
Operation 40 cronies.

It is now known that the CIA was not only aware of the
assassination plot, but Bush himself was responsible for
deflecting the FBI’s investigations, by laying false trails
in the press.

Taking advantage of his job, Bush composed a rather strange
internal memo asking for a copy of a report concerning a
visit by Jack Ruby (killer of Lee Harvey Oswald — Kennedy’s
alleged assassin) to infamous Havana mafia leader Santos
Traficante, who had immigrated to the United States and was
a CIA collaborator at the time Letelier and Moffit were
killed. In 1976, Rodríguez was awarded a medal for bravery
by Bush. Shortly afterwards, he received death threats, so
the CIA installed a security system at his home and gave
him an armored car. In 1979, he linked up with an arms
dealer in South America, in association with Ted Shackley,
his old boss in Saigon.

The following year, Ronald Reagan backed Bush as candidate
for vice president.

REROUTING FUNDS FOR CONTRAS

In 1982, CIA director William Casey launched Operation
Black Eagle to expand the U.S. role in Central America.
Mercenaries were recruited to form the Nicaraguan Contras;
Casey was under orders from George Bush.

In Florida, George’s son Jeb was entwined with the
Cuban-American mafia, the Contras and Nicaraguan
immigrants. Jeb fraternized with ultra-right Cuban-American
mafioso Leonel Martínez, the drug trafficker connected to
Nicaraguan dissidents and CIA agent Eden Pastora.

That August, George Bush appointed Donald Gregg (from the
Laos says) as National Security Advisor. Gregg sent Félix
Rodríguez on support missions to the Nicaraguan Contras.

Along with José Basulto, current head of Brothers to the
Rescue, Rodríguez organized what was later to be called the
largest rerouting of social security funds in U.S. history.
With the complicity of Jeb Bush’s pal Cuban-American Miguel
Recarey, he used a large portion of federal subsidies
earmarked for Miami’s public health services in order to
illegally organize hospital care for Nicaraguan Contra
mercenaries.

October 1984: Gerald Latchinian, deputy director of Giro
Aviation — a CIA airline company run by Félix Rodríguez —
was arrested and detained for importing a consignment of
cocaine worth $10 million dollars, supposedly to finance
the assassination of the Honduran president Roberto Suazo
Cordova. Latchinian later confirmed that the operation was
the work of the CIA.

IN ILOPANGO WITH POSADA

At the end of 1984 Donald Gregg introduced Colonel Oliver
North, chief of U.S. operations in Central America, to
Félix Rodríguez. It is said that Gregg had an autographed
photo of Rodríguez on his desk.

Bush and Rodríguez met in January 1985. In June, the latter
met with Gregg and Colonel Steele, the man responsible for
the Contras’ supplies. Rodríguez then resurfaced in El
Salvador to take charge of aerial operations at the
Ilopango base. At that time he was using the name Max
Gómez.

>From that moment on, the former Operation 40 member was
chief coordinator for transporting massive amounts of
cocaine from Colombia to the United States.

As Rodriguez was their main aide, the CIA offered him his
old pal arch-terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who
masterminded the Cubana aircraft sabotage. With CIA and
CANF help, Posada Carriles had just escaped from a
Venezuelan jail dressed as a priest and was now using the
name Ramón Medina.

IN BED WITH THE ENEMY

Sometime later, former DEA (Drugs Enforcement Agency) agent
Celerino Castillo III told the House of Representative’s
intelligence committee how his informers discovered
warehouses of drugs, weapons and money at the Ilopango
Base. He added that it was noted that many Contra pilots
were listed as drug traffickers in DEA dossiers.

"I discovered that other agencies were sleeping with the
enemy," stated Castillo in an interview with the Dallas
Morning News.

On January 18, 1985, Rodríguez met with Roberto
Milán-Rodríguez, the Medellín cartel’s money-laundering
specialist, who boasted of already having laundered over
1.5 billion dollars for that organization. Milán-Rodríguez
handed over $10 million USD, destined for the Nicaraguan
Contras.

On May 8, 1985, Bush’s office received a warning from
Rodríguez that a C-123 aircraft had been brought down by
the Nicaraguan Armed Forces. The pilot, Eugene Hassenfus,
confessed to working for the CIA and taking his orders from
Max Gómez (Félix Rodríguez) and Ramón Medina (Luis Posada
Carriles).

In December 1985, George Bush openly and unashamedly
received his friend Félix Rodríguez — torturer, murderer,
thief and drug trafficker — at the White House. With
official photographs and full protocol. Rodríguez
participated in the Christmas festivities held there. Bush
introduced him as an old friend of his and Gregg’s.

A few days later in Bush’s office, Rodríguez met with
Colonel Sam Watson, Gregg’s personal representative in El
Salvador, plus Colonel Steele, to discuss strategy in the
Contras’ fight.

During 1986, Vice president Bush officially toured
Honduras, offering support to the Contras.

In May, Rodríguez met with Bush, Gregg and Oliver North in
Washington.

In September he visited Bush and Donald Gregg to complain
about the quality of weapons sent by one Richard Secord.
Gregg ordered that the weapons should be bought directly
from one of Rodríguez’ own sources.

In October of the same year, General Singlaub complained of
Rodríguez’ "daily contacts" with Bush’s office, citing his
fears that such contact could endanger President Reagan and
the Republican Party.

And of course, behind the operational team lurked the
shadow of Otto Reich, head of the public diplomacy office
and the man in charge of disinforming the U.S. people. When
the Iran-Contra scandal broke, Reich was immediately
dispatched as ambassador to Venezuela, where he
orchestrated the release and "rehabilitation" of Posada’s
accomplice, killer doctor Orlando Bosch.

In 1988, a Senate commission headed by Senator John Kerry
investigated the scandalous drugs and weapons trafficking
operation involving Oliver North, Donald Gregg, John
Poindexter, Elliott Abrams, Otto Reich, Richard

Armitage, John Negroponte, Mitch Daniels and other George
Bush accomplices in the empire’s war in Nicaragua.

And we mustn’t forget the secret accomplice — Félix
Rodríguez. He will also have to stand up and be counted,
although he’s apparently well sorted out: on Christmas Eve,
Bush wrote him a personal greeting enigmatically informing
him that he’d earned a lot of respect in the process.

GEORGE IN WASHINGTON, FÉLIX IN MIAMI

In 1989, George Bush finally became president. Félix
Rodríguez was present at the new president’s investiture,
alongside his great friend General Rafael Bustillos, head
of...the El Salvadoran airforce.

Despite Rodríguez’ statement that he was no longer with the
CIA, Rolling Stone weekly revealed that he continued
visiting the Agency once a month to receive instructions,
and that he’d taken his bullet-proof Cadillac there to be
serviced.

In that same year, Bush released Orlando Bosch from the
cells of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, where
he’d been imprisoned since he was sprung from Venezuela —
thanks to Otto Reich who, at that time, was U.S. ambassador
to Caracas and likewise a CIA agent.

In 1994, George W. Bush was elected governor of Texas. And
was already dreaming of becoming president.

In 1998, Jeb Bush was given the job of Florida governor. He
had the full backing of his "partners" in Miami; "He’s one
of us," crowed CANF leader Jorge Mas Canosa.

In 2000, George W. Bush was named president of the United
States, thanks to a five to four Supreme Court vote and
after an intensive campaign by the Miami mafia.

They say that George is still active behind the scenes.
Every week he requests a tailor-made report from the CIA.
He assesses his son. Nominations to posts alone reveal to
what extent… And dozens of members of the Miami Connection
can be found at all levels of the new administration.

Félix meanwhile strolls around Miami, meeting with his
network of former agents, killers, conspirators… in the
full light of day. After all, he’s a "close friend" of
George’s.


He lives in Miami-Dade county. His trophies are displayed
in his living room: firearms, grenades, bayonets, photos
with George, the belongings of prisoners tortured in Viet
Nam and South America. Even some jewelry from a murdered
Salvadoran guerrilla; plus innumerable medals and
decorations.

They say that he was there on May 20 listening to George
Jr. announcing his plans for a "new democratic Cuba" to an
audience of former Batista torturers, mafiosi and other
varieties of extremists. A plan designed to match the
profiles of his audience.

FREE TO CONTINUE COMMITTING CRIMES

During the trial of the Miami Five, it was revealed that
one of the Cuban patriots had a chance weekend sighting of
Félix Rodríguez, waiting in line behind him at a Costco
supermarket checkout in Miami. He was able to observe the
blasé way this torturer, murderer, thief and drug
trafficker left the store and got in his luxury vehicle at
the shopping mall parking lot.

Félix Rodríguez — associate of arch-terrorists Posada and
Bosch, Saigon torturer, Watergate thief, killer in Bolivia,
drug trafficker in Laos and El Salvador, is free to walk
the streets of Miami and continue committing crimes.

Meanwhile, the Five patriots, victims of CIA and FBI
conspiracies, are cruelly isolated in five different jails
located in the vast territory of the United States.

Those five patriots risked their lives to counteract thechrome://tidyread/skin/tidyreadi.png
plans of individuals who, from the sidewalks of Miami to
the corridors of the White House, continue conspiring to
commit new crimes against the Cuban Revolution.


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A Christmas 1988 greeting from President George Bush to his
torturer, killer, thief and drug trafficking friend Félix
Rodríguez. The tone is revealing: "Dear Félix, Thank you
for your note of December 18. Yes, the truth is powerful.
You have told the truth faithfully and have won a lot of
respect in the process. Good luck. May 1989 be calmer than
1988 and may it be full of great happiness for you. With
admiration and respect, George Bush."

[Judi Lynn]

6. Going to save your article on Rodriguez. HE has been the one who has

always taken the credit for hunting Che Guevara down, and he's the one who even stole the watch Guevara's father gave him for graduation from medical school, which he keeps to this day. He even boasts about it in a documentary on 638 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro.

How this guy got any traction over a 50 year old event is outlandish. What kind of side-show are they running, anyway? Surely they don't expect anyone to take them seriously, I hope.

[EFerrari]

3. Maybe Cuba can have a trial restoring the 13 colonies to the Queen.

lol

[magbana]

5. Perrrrrfect! n/t

[Billy Burnett]

4. Didn't either the Clinton or W admin create a US fund to pay off these type of suits?

With the intent of collecting these funds at a later date (when the overthrow of Cuba is completed).

I seem to remember reading (or posting) this story back when another egregious award for another family was handed out by a Miami judge.

I think that this cretin will collect (from US taxpayers), like the Brothers to the Rescue families and the wife of one of the Cuban Avispa group (that the Cuban 5 were part of) did.

Sorry I don't have a link from my archives, I'm not at my home base PC now.

[Judi Lynn]

7. It wouldn't be a surprise. That Ana Maria even got to keep an entire

large airplane a highjacker flew from Cuba. Her avaricious, money-grubbing colors really flew high when she stepped forward to claim her airplane she won for sleeping with a man who later was revealed to be working for his country, investigating actual terrorists in South Florida who prey upon Cubans.

How she ever managed to sue Cuba in court for HER decision to marry that man is a question for the ages.