Showing posts with label Posada Carriles-Luis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Posada Carriles-Luis. Show all posts

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Posada Carriles is dead at 90

We never have truly reckoned with the miseries we brought upon the people of Central America during the 1980s—the slaughter of priests and nuns; the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero, soon to be named a saint of the Roman Catholic Church; the unpunished drug-running; all the money and blood and treasure that we expended on the Reagan Administration’s paranoia that a dying Soviet Union was making imperial inroads in this half of the world.

(Remember Reagan’s worry about how close to Houston El Salvador was? That was a weird time. The last stand of the domino idiocy.)

Hell, Ollie North is still a public figure, warning Americans that Ritalin may be the cause of all these school shootings. But, at the very least, we should acknowledge our own complicity in those events and, every time a newspaper refers to Posada as a “militant” or a “hardliner,” refer to him in our own minds as the terrorist he was.

  Charles P Pierce
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Also, from YWA July 2013:



No longer.

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Like a Circle in a Spyral

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever spinning reel

Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of it's own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone

--Alan and Marilyn Bergman
March 18, 2013: "I call on President Obama – Roger Noriega, Otto Reich, officials at the Pentagon and at the CIA are behind a plan to assassinate the right-wing presidential candidate to create chaos," Maduro said in a TV interview broadcast on Sunday.

The acting president first mentioned the alleged plot to kill his rival, Henrique Capriles, last week. Former Bush administration diplomats Noriega and Reich both dismissed the claim as defamatory and untrue.

  RT
It would be hard to defame the US, seeing as how the CIA has been intervening all around the globe for decades in the politics of other nations, including kidnapping, assassinations and assassination attempts.
August 1, 2013: Venezuelan officials warned of an alleged plot to assassinate the country’s President and launch a paramilitary invasion of the country. A former CIA agent, Cuban exiles living in the US and Latin American leaders were fingered in the conspiracy.

  RT
Well, that sounds a little far-fetched unless you remember the Bay of Pigs.
The suspected plot to overthrow the government in Caracas was allegedly funded by Cuban exiles living in Miami, the head of the Venezuela’s parliament [and former vice president to Hugo Chavez] Diosdado Cabello told legislators on Wednesday. They raised some $2.5 million and recruited about 400 mercenaries, who would enter Venezuela’s Zulia state from Columbia as part of the plan.
And, Fox News reporter James Rosen is at it again – asking for trouble. Here are excerpts from a July 25 report of his:
The [1962] initiative, code named "Operation Mongoose," drew on the brainpower and energies of the U.S. government's most senior officials and ranged from balloon drops of anti-Castro pamphlets and cartoons to covert sabotage of Cuban industry and infrastructure. In time, it would even include active plotting to assassinate the Cuban dictator, with the Central Intelligence Agency clandestinely enlisting the aid of the era's reigning Mafia chieftains.
But the row with Kruschev over missiles in Cuba caused a change in plans.
"It was agreed that all plans for dispatch [of saboteurs] should be suspended," declared a Top Secret memorandum of the session, adding that "instructions were issued during the course of the meeting designed to recall the three teams already on the way" to Cuba. "No major acts of sabotage should be undertaken at this time."

[...]

These deliberations were among the revelations tucked away in some 7,500 pages of files amassed by the younger Kennedy and withheld from public view until now. The unsealing of RFK's confidential files on Wednesday, a half-century after the events they chronicled, drew a handful of researchers and historians to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.

While an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 pages of RFK's files remain classified -- the documents released by the library were peppered with redactions and withdrawn items -- those that were unsealed provided fresh insight into the extraordinary influence that their owner wielded in the Kennedy White House.
You'd think there'd be more than a "handful" of researchers interested in the RFK files.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Trade Implications?




In fact, Cuban-born Posada Carriles, a former CIA agent, is a known terrorist, acknowledged by the US government, implicated in several terrorist attacks, including the bombing of a Cuban airliner and several Cuban tourist bombings.  But he is an anti-Communist terrorist, so we like him.

Posada Carriles was actually tried and acquitted in the US and is allowed to stay on the grounds that he would be tortured if extradicted to Cuba or Venezuela. He spent nine years in a Venezuelan prison, but escaped.  He had help.  I have seen no reports or accusations that he was ever tortured there.

Posada Carriles is living happily in Miami, perhaps still organizing terror attacks, who knows?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

PS: Eva Golinger is an attorney and civil rights activist.

PPS:  Link to US letter requesting Venezuela arrest and extradict Ed Snowen