Saul Landau on the Cuban Revolution and How the U.S. Directly Aided Anti-Castro Militants

[Judi Lynn]

Saul Landau on the Cuban Revolution and How the U.S. Directly Aided Anti-Castro Militants
Thursday, December 25, 2014

As the United States moves to normalize relations with Cuba, we rebroadcast our 2012 interview with the late filmmaker Saul Landau, who made more than 45 films and wrote 14 books, many about Cuba. We spoke to him about his film "Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up." He discussed the history of the Cuban Five and U.S. support for a group of anti-Castro militants who have been behind the bombing of airplanes, the blowing up of hotels and assassinations. Today they are allowed to live freely in the United States. "What did Cuba do to us?" Landau asks. "Well, the answer, I think, is that they were disobedient, in our hemisphere. And they did not ask permission to take away property. They took it away. They nationalized property. And the United States ... has never forgiven them."

Transcript

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AMY GOODMAN: The failed U.S. policy against Cuba, which has for more than half a century stifled relations between these neighboring countries and inflicted generations of harm upon the Cuban people, may finally be collapsing. On December 17th, the two countries announced a series of moves to normalize relations. Cuba released Alan Gross, a U.S. government contractor, and a Cuban named Rolando Sarraff Trujillo, who spied for the CIA. The United States released the three remaining jailed members of the Cuban Five.

The Cuban Five were arrested in the late '90s on espionage charges here in the U.S., but they weren't spying on the U.S. government. They were in Miami infiltrating Cuban-American paramilitary groups based there that were dedicated to the violent overthrow of the Cuban government.

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[easychoice]

1. When we talk about Cuba we must remember the Bushes and the Walkers

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They got their CIA asses kicked out of the place...
Has any other family done as much harm globally as the BFEE?
Why aren't they all in jail?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbinger_Group

[Mika]

2. And the Kennedy's. eom

[easychoice]

3. too true

they took a huge hit over the bay of pigs.Aptly named for the CIA,lol

[flamingdem]

4. Very interesting material

Is there a book about this?

[easychoice]

5. I read Tarpley,IIRC

He sees GHW for the scumbag he is.The Old man,Prescott,was a Senator at the time Fidel snatched Walkers property IIRC.LOL Oh to be a fly on the wall at that whineathon
I think Octafish might know a little too.

[Judi Lynn]

6. I've been reading a book by Ana Bardach, who researches very well, being a former NY Times reporter,

and she pointed out early in the book that George W Bush's grandfather, the Walker guy, was involved in both United Fruit, and the enormous sugar company, (I can get back with the names later, if would help) and they operated, and controlled over 300,000 acres of land adjacent to the mere 23,000 acres owned by Fidel Castro's father Angel Castro's sugar plantation.

And they had other involvement there, as well. Wildly creepy, greedy, unscrupulous people.

[easychoice]

7. You are the best Judi Lynn! Happy New Year! YAY!!!

I think,IIRC the Walkers sugar Co. was named Sprekels. I remember there were a lot of people really mad at JFK because he wouldn't turn Cuba into another Guatemala.Monroe Doctrine and all that.
Greedy,childish,lying children.The lot of them.Lie and blame it on someone else,their M.O..