US groups back Cuba's charges against US diplomats

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Deutsche Presse Agentur

US groups back Cuba's charges against US diplomats
Posted : Tue, 20 May 2008 19:29:00 GMT
Author : DPA

Washington - A coalition of US activist groups Tuesday charged that the United States has allowed a known terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles, to agitate for violence against Cuba while funnelling tainted money to human rights activists in the Caribbean country. Brian Becker, coordinator of Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism (ANSWER), demanded that the US bring formal terrorism charges against Posada, who has been the subject of requests for extradition for years by Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.

Becker appeared at a press conference with the one-time chief of the US Interests Section in Havana, Wayne Smith; Venezuela's attorney on the Posada extradition, Jose Perteirra; and a group that wants five Cubans jailed in the US to be released.

Their charges came in a week of rising tensions over US-Cuba relations.

On Monday, the Cuban government accused the top US diplomat in Havana, Michael Parmly, of providing money from exiled groups in the United States to dissidents on the communist island.

Cuban officials said Parmley passed money that came from the Miami-based foundation Rescate Juridico, which is reportedly funded by Santiago Alvarez Fernandez-Magrina, an anti-Castro activist jailed in the United States for illegal possession of firearms.



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[ohio2007]

1. Videos show discontent in Cuba ( students challenge the leadership )

Videos show discontent in Cuba -
New videos show something rarely seen in Cuba: People challenging restrictions. CNN's Morgan Neill reports
• Videos hint at public discontent in Cuba
• Raul Castro tops brother Fidel in votes
Source: CNN


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8b1_1202452346

Maybe the boy is being paid to speak out ? ;)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a80_1211327475

[slipslidingaway]

2. U.S. Senator challenged Bush in 1988 over Posada Carriles case

FWIW I came across this last week, more at link from the 1988 Congressional record.

http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/posada/posada16may.htm

"Since the public announcement that self-confessed terrorist Luís Posada Carriles had entered U.S. territory and requested political asylum, a number of documents have appeared giving interesting details on the case. One of them contains a comment directed at George Bush that is especially eye-opening: "The Posada case demonstrates that you didn't bother to use your offices and your International Terrorism Task Force to investigate the activities of a known international terrorist. Was it because of Posada's past ties with the CIA?"

One might think that these words came from one of Cuba's recent pronouncements on the subject, but, interestingly enough, it came from a U.S. senator during a Senate hearing in 1988 on the Iran-Contra scandal.

Tom Harkin, Democratic senator for Indiana since 1984, specifically aimed his remarks at then Vice-President George H.W. Bush - father of the current president - to explain everything he knew regarding Posada Carriles and why he had not acted against the terrorist.

There's more. Harkin added: "You owe it to America's voters to reaffirm your commitment against terrorism and the first step is to come clean about Luis Posada, the international terrorist."

Congressional Record - Senate

Thursday, September 22, 1988;
(Legislative day of Wednesday, September 7, 1988)"

[Judi Lynn]

3. So glad you posted this. Always admired Sen. Harkin enormously, had no idea he had made

a stand like this.

Very good news. Thank you.

[slipslidingaway]

7. You're welcome :) n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. Hey, where's Bacchus? YO, BACCHUS, ARTICLE ABOUT CUBA HERE!

Come on, we want to know your opinion on this subject!

*crickets*

*tumbleweeds*

[Mika]

5. Can it be tied to anything about pressure cookers?

Talk about obsession. lol

:hi:

[Pavulon]

10. I'll fill in..SOP since 48

we undermine governments we don't like. The USSR put the communist government into place, we will remove it.

You can debate the MORALITY of this with someone who can set policy. However the historical precedent is clear.

The US will manipulate political systems with dollars and other means.

The communists will fall and you and I will be watching the texas hold'em world poker tour in the copa before to long.

Taking bets...

[Judi Lynn]

6. More details released on US Interests chief, Miami support to dissidents

More details released on US Interests chief, Miami support to dissidents
Ray Sanchez | Direct from Havana
8:10 AM EDT, May 20, 2008
Havana



The director of the Security State Historical Investigation Center of Cuba,
Manuel Hevia, presents a video of Cuban opposition leader Marta Beatriz
Roque (R), who allegedly received $1,500 a month from jailed Miami anti-
Castro militant Santiago Alvarez, a close associate of accused terrorist Luis
Posada Carriles. Hevia and other Cuban officials charge the chief of the US
Interests Section, Michael Parmly, carried the money from Miami to Roque.
(AFP/Getty Images, Adalberto Roque / May 19, 2008)

State security surveillance video showed the dissident accused of taking money from the top U.S. diplomat in Havana cutting short a cell phone conversation because credit on her phone was low.

"I'm running out of money on this because I don't have money to buy another card," dissident Martha Beatriz Roque was telling a contact at the U.S. Interests Section.

Her phone credit may have been running out but Cuban officials said Roque was receiving $1,500 a month from Fundacion Rescate Juridico, a nonprofit exile group created by Santiago Alvarez, 66, an exile militant jailed in the United States on weapons charges.

Roque did have time to tell the diplomat on the line that CNN had showed up to cover a small demonstration she was staging outside the Justice Ministry. "CNN, wow!" her contact said.

Cuban officials said outgoing Interests Section chief Michael Parmly delivered money from the Miami-based group to Roque and other dissidents. Alvarez is a benefactor and close associate of reputed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

More:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/cuba/sfl-0520havanadaily,0,7375944.column

[Judi Lynn]

8. Cuban charges against U.S. diplomat renewed

Cuban charges against U.S. diplomat renewed
Posted on Fri, May. 23, 2008
BY FRANCES ROBLES
[e-mail]

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque blasted the United States Thursday, saying Washington has yet to answer to accusations that its top diplomat in Havana helped ferry money to dissidents on the island.

Pérez Roque held a televised news conference streamed live on the Cubavision website in which he reiterated charges that the chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Michael Parmly, carried money from a South Florida organization with ties to terrorism.
(snip)

Pérez Roque blasted President Bush as a lame-duck president whose Cuba speech Wednesday was ``irrelevant, cynical and in bad taste.''

Washington diplomats in charge of managing policy that limits the money Cuban Americans can send back home were the ones who instead were ferrying ''blood money'' to ''mercenaries,'' he said.

''What would they do if Martha Beatriz Roque lived in the United States and was accused of receiving money from terrorists, and the ones who brought this money were diplomats?'' Pérez Roque said.

``We expect a full investigation. These accusations are serious, and the evidence strong.''

More:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/543927.html

[Pavulon]

9. Color me surprised

we are taking steps to squish the last of soviet communism. Once fidel dies all bets are off. Then the machine goes to work and there is no USSR or agreements from the early 60's to protect the communist state.

If they have him on tape he has immunity.

Cuba played games here we play games there. The outcome was set when the politburo dissolved.

Have they shot down any Cessna's recently?