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| 26/08/04 | A “panagringo” commentary on an issue with a Venezuelan connection |
VHeadline.com Venezuela Venezuela's Electronic News — www.vheadline.com Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:28:17 -0400 (EDT) As you may know (if you read the Panamanian dailies), Cuba and Panama are on the brink of rupturing diplomatic relations … not for a good reason, like the jailing of all those journalists and dissidents. President Mireya Moscoso and her criminal organization had not one word of protest when Fidel's dictatorship was doing that. No, what Cuba is upset about is the rumor that Mireya plans to pardon several Cuban-American terrorists who had planned to kill Fidel Castro and hundreds of Panamanian citizens by setting off bombs when he spoke at the University of Panama during a November 2000 Ibero-American summit here. They were planning to kill friends of mine, like Elida, who used to do the graphic designs when The Panama News was publishing a print edition. They were planning to kill the leaders of the Kuna General Congress, and of much of the Panamanian labor movement, and of the University of Panama administration, and of the student radical groups, all of whom were Castro's hosts at that event. (I was not there. Although I oppose the US embargo against Cuba and all American claims of any right to remove any Latin American head of government … and … although I oppose the Miami Cuban exile groups' intentions to replace the communist Castro dictatorship with a right-wing dictatorship, I think that Fidel merits picket lines rather than triumphal receptions whenever he sets foot on a foreign university campus.) But let us understand who these guys are. Guillermo Novo, now doing a seven-year sentence here for explosives possession, was not new to the bomber's art. No, on September 21, 1976, as part of a Cuban-Chilean terror squad, he placed a bomb in a car carrying three people — fwww.post-gazette.com/columnists/19981024roddy5.asp former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and Institute for Policy Studies fellows Ronni Moffitt and her husband Dave Moffitt — and detonated this bomb about three blocks from the White House. Ronni Moffitt, an American citizen, and Orlando Letelier were killed. Dave Moffitt was seriously injured. rrojasdatabank.net/declas01.htm Declassified FBI documents about the incident Guillermo Novo was convicted for his role and sentenced to life imprisonment, but on appeal he was granted a new trial due to procedural irregularities, and then the George HW Bush administration took a dive at the retrial and the guy walked. The Miami Cuban exile leadership was ecstatic and the GOP went up a few points in the Florida polls. One of the other guys convicted here, the apparent leader of the plot to set off bombs at the University of Panama, is one Luis Posada Carriles. A few weeks after the terrorist bombing on the streets of Washington DC, on October 6, 1976, a group of Cuban exiles put a bomb aboard a Cubana civilian airliner in Caracas, and detonated that bomb over Barbadian territorial waters. All 73 people aboard were killed. Posada Carriles was arrested in Barbados for his alleged role in the bombing, extradited to Venezuela, and went through years of trials and appeals before being allowed to escape from a Venezuelan prison by his guards. He is wanted by both Cuba and Venezuela for that crime. blog.zmag.org/rocinante/archives/000236.html Archive of articles about Posada Carriles at the time of his conviction in Panama news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1301482003 A competitor's tribute to an honored adversary killed in the airplane bombing The bochinche (damning thing) here is that Mireya Moscoso, in the last days of her corruption-stained administration, is hoping that by pardoning these men, she will avoid losing her visa to visit the United States. A number of figures in her kleptocratic regime have already lost their US visas. And of course, if that is the case we could presume that on the US end the motive would be to please the Miami Cuban exile leadership who don't care who they kill … who have repeatedly staged terrorists attacks not only on Cuba, but on the United States … who have the blood of Ronni Moffitt on their hands… Eric Jackson VHeadline.com remains 100% independent of all political factions in Venezuela Our editorial statement reads: Please give your support to our continuing efforts if you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe click on www.vheadline.com/subscriber/member_details.asp Subscriber Member Details SUBSCRIBERS ARE ADVISED THAT THEY, AND THEY ALONE, HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAINTAINING THEIR FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO VHEADLINE.COM VENEZUELA AND THAT OUR EDITORIAL STAFF DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE ANY READER. PLEASE NOTE: |
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