GEORGE II’S DANGEROUS LIAISONS
 
                  • The president avoids talking of ‘terrorism’ in front of his court of
                   Miami terrorist capos... but then puts Cuba — victim of 40 years of U.S.
                   terrorism — on the list of ‘terrorist’ countries • U.S. people held
                   hostage by mafiosos?

                   BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD (Special for Granma International)

                   ON May 20, in Miami, almost one week after confessing that he
                   knew before September 11 that terrorists were going to hijack
                   commercial planes in U.S. territory, President George W. Bush
                   suddenly abandoned his rhetoric of the last eight months.

                   The White House incumbent was in Miami to give a speech full of
                   violent anti-Cuba rhetoric. He did not once mention the word
                   "terrorist," and for good reason: he was completely surrounded by
                   eminent Miami terrorists.

                   Some of the most faithful sponsors of terrorism aimed against Cuba
                   over the past four decades, plus various individuals who have
                   masterminded and carried out attacks and assassinations, were
                   gathered around Bush.

                   Without any sense of shame, the capos and their killers continue to
                   maintain a high profile in public, reaping the benefits of a purported
                   legitimacy based on the president’s infinite gratitude to those who
                   put him in power, although he wasn’t even elected; the presence of
                   18 Miami mafia cronies in the White House; and the FBI’s benevolent
                   tolerance of Miami’s most extremist groups.

                   And even in the presence of the U.S. head of state, they didn’t see
                   the need to use the least discretion.

                   AN OPERATION TO COLLECT SPURIOUS FUNDS

                   It’s worth taking a brief inventory of the fauna that effusively
                   applauded him that day, rehashing the old anti-Cuba rhetoric aimed
                   at raising support and, above all, funds for the "democratic" election
                   of his brother Jeb:

                   • In the front row were the heads of the Cuban American National
                   Foundation (CANF), the main organization of the "anti-Cuba
                   industry." From Jorge Mas Santos to Joe García, all the leading
                   elements of the principal Cuban-American annexation-terrorist lobby
                   had the opportunity to shake the hands of George II and his brother.
                   It’s interesting to note that for decades now, the CANF has financed
                   Luis Posada Carriles, who shares with Orlando Bosch the title of the
                   most dangerous terrorist in the hemisphere. Posada Carriles
                   masterminded the bombing of a Cubana Airlines plane in which all 73
                   people on board died; he is also responsible for more than 50 other
                   attacks, including those that took place in Havana in 1997. In an
                   interview with The New York Times, he confessed that for many
                   years he has been able to count on the CANF’s unfailing economic
                   support.

                   • Other "experts" proven to have received money for terror (and
                   above all from the network of Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch)
                   appeared in the chorus of Bush’s friends: Roberto Martín Peréz (also
                   a participant in plans for bombing attacks), Elpidio Núñez, Diego
                   Rolando Suárez Muñoz and Felipe Vals Brau.

                   • At a short distance from the CANF troops, the former capos of the
                   CANF’s most fanatical wing, ecstatic with beatitude; they are now
                   "dissidents" joined together in an organization pompously christened
                   the Council for Cuban Liberty. It was possible to spot Ninoska
                   Pérez-Castillón (spokeswoman for the group and promoter of
                   support for Posada Carriles), Alberto Hernández (former CANF
                   president), Feliciano Foyo (whom Posada Carriles calls his
                   "financier"), and Horacio García. Many of them signed a call to
                   terrorism published by the Miami Herald in August 2001, in which
                   they coldly affirmed that all means, however violent, are admissible
                   to change the island’s government. The document was also signed
                   by Miami terrorist leader Orlando Bosch, accomplice of Luis Posada
                   Carriles and defender of the principle that it’s "normal" for innocent
                   people to die in any confrontation.

                   TRAFFICKERS OF ARMS, DRUGS AND MURDERS

                   Also present were:

                   • Félix Rodriguez, one of the Watergate burglars and the head of the
                   drug operation in El Salvador’s Ilopango base that allowed the
                   Nicaraguan contras to buy arms, financed by cocaine sales on U.S.
                   territory. A buddy of George Bush I and Otto Reich, both of whom
                   covered up his activities, Rodriguez was closely linked to terrorist
                   activities by secret organization Omega-7, responsible for several
                   attacks and assassinations.

                   • Huber Matos, head of Independent Democratic Cuba, who
                   "distinguished" himself in the dirty war in Nicaragua.

                   • Armando Pérez Roura, a Batista follower, Alpha 66 member, leader
                   of the terrorist group Cuban Unity, involved in various criminal
                   activities in Miami, hysterical announcer on a well-known terrorist
                   radio station. Over the years Alpha 66, led by Nazario Sargent, has
                   instigated and organized many terrorist raids on Cuba (all of which
                   failed). In Miami, he continues to openly advocate the absolute need
                   for violent actions without any interference by the authorities. His
                   son also trafficked drugs.

                   • "Specially" invited to the event were killers Dionisio Suárez Esquivel
                   and Virgilio Paz Romero, who had the pleasure of personally thanking
                   their benefactor George Bush. The two men were freed by President
                   Bush in August 2001 (just before the September 11 attacks), after
                   being imprisoned for the murders of Chilean Ambassador Orlando
                   Letelier and human rights activist Ronnie Moffit on a Washington DC
                   street! This horrendous crime was denounced throughout the entire
                   world, except in Miami of course.

                   • Also identified were Roberto Rodríguez de Aragón of the Cuban
                   Patriotic Junta, godfather of various violent actions, alongside Sisto
                   Reinaldo Aquis Manríquez and his crony Eugenio Llameras Rondón,
                   both members of the Secret Army and Commandos L, and with
                   abundant antecedents of participating in acts of terrorism.

                   • Bush finally had the opportunity to greet those who kidnapped Elián
                   González, as uncles Delfín and Lázaro González and ditsy cousin
                   Marisleysis were in there in the crowd of admirers.

                   Nobody in the United States seems surprised by the sight of Bush
                   fraternizing with such people in the capital of the banana republic of
                   Miami, much less the establishment press, which refuses to touch the
                   subject, maybe it’s too hot. Nor does the press dare to ask how,
                   despite official reports characterizing him as a well-known terrorist,
                   murderer Orlando Bosch – an international criminal and mastermind
                   of innumerable attacks – could have been allowed to live in the
                   so-called land of the free. The current president’s father granted
                   Bosch a pardon, in gratitude for the dirty work he carried out on
                   behalf of the CIA.

                   COMMITTED TO FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS

                   Given that 18 eminent members of the Bush administration have
                   close ties to the capos of the Miami camarilla, it seems fully
                   acceptable in certain parts for the emperor to protect the terrorist
                   fauna that allowed him to accede to the throne without being
                   elected. And without a doubt, brother Jeb will be able to carry out the
                   same feat, with the self-same tricks and fraud we saw in the
                   November election.

                   But it’s worth asking: How much longer will the U.S. people put up
                   with a president held hostage by a handful of mafia terrorists? How
                   much longer will the U.S. people put up with a shameless gang of
                   criminals directing their nation’s foreign policy on Latin America? How
                   much longer will the U.S. people put up with the cruel punishment
                   meted out to five Cuban patriots who were imprisoned for
                   counteracting terror?

                   In Miami, where all the anti-Cuba hysteria is set, the Cuban-American
                   terrorists can do anything openly. And the spectacular May 20
                   presidential blessing only confirms the mafia’s sinister privileges.

                   The Batista underworld’s blackmail and domination is strangling
                   Miami, and no sector of the city’s administration escapes the
                   camarilla’s tentacles. The FBI comes off worst: its role is the best
                   example of the mafia’s power in the territory. And there are
                   examples aplenty.

                   The FBI publicly defended its lethargy toward miniscule terrorist
                   groups such as Alpha 66, claiming to control them through a network
                   of informers. But it can’t have failed to notice who placed the bombs
                   that exploded in Havana, in 1997. Indeed, Luis Posada Carriles, the
                   main author of the crime — which caused the death of Fabio Di
                   Celmo, an Italian tourist — confessed to The New York Times on
                   July 12, 1998, that he’d received CANF funding.

                   In 1998, Héctor Pesquera — ineffable head of Florida’s FBI office —
                   was dedicating himself to arranging a rigged trail against the five
                   Cuban patriots who had risked their lives to counteract the Miami
                   terrorists’ criminal plans. Meanwhile, those same terrorists were
                   preparing their attack on Fidel Castro in Panama, which was
                   ultimately foiled.

                   FBI TOLERANCE

                   Thanks to the benevolent tolerance of the FBI, Luis Posada Carriles’
                   friends, all Miami residents, calmly planned to blow up to an
                   auditorium full of students. Their objective: to kill the Cuban
                   president.

                   And nobody can pretend they don’t know who those Miami residents
                   were. They all have long criminal records and are meticulously
                   registered in the FBI files:

                   • Pedro Remón — as the FBI’s own files confirm — killed Félix García
                   Rodríguez, a Cuban diplomat at the United Nations in New York, in
                   September 1980. In November 1979, he also murdered Eulalio José
                   Negrín, a Cuban-American who supported the island’s government, in
                   front of his 12-year-old son. He has participated in broad range of
                   terrorist crimes.

                   • Guillermo Novo Sampoli has maintained an extensive history of
                   terror for the last 40 years. Accomplice in the assassinations of
                   Orlando Letelier and Ronnie Moffit, he was arrested in Miami carrying
                   half a kilo of cocaine. He was finally found guilty of the double
                   murder, but was "absolved" on appeal, thanks to legal shenanigans
                   by the CIA, whose director at the time was George Bush I.

                   • Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo, old conspirator buddy of Orlando
                   Bosch, was involved in the savage murder of Cuban technician
                   D’Artagnan Díaz Díaz in Mérida, Mexico, and later escaped from jail
                   there. He took part in various other assassination attempts on the
                   Cuban president in Jamaica, Mexico, Spain, Honduras, Colombia,
                   Argentina and the Dominican Republic.

                   He likewise collaborated in the sinister Panama conspiracy, along with
                   Nelsy Ignacio Castro Matos, Santiago Alvarez Fernández and Rubén
                   Darío López Castro. All live in Miami and all are "eminent"
                   personalities in the community of professional terrorists who, one
                   supposes, are fully documented by the FBI.

                   After the spectacular November 2000 arrest of Luis Posada Carriles
                   and his pals in Panama, the three "eminent" individuals involved in the
                   assassination plan were NOT bothered by the FBI, and later they
                   themselves took on the responsibility for establishing links between
                   the CANF and the detained terrorists.

                   They traveled to Panama with impunity, carrying large sums of
                   money for Posada and his accomplices, in order to pay for the
                   services of a famous drug traffickers’ lawyer. The three also exerted
                   political pressure on the Panamanian state, in the name of the Miami
                   camarilla.

                   All those activities took place without the slightest interference from
                   Héctor Pesquera, a silent witness to the plot since its beginning.

                   Worse still: while they were looking after their imprisoned cronies,
                   following the failure of the attack they helped to organize, Castro
                   Matos, Alvarez Fernández and López Castro carried out an armed
                   incursion to Cuba, which also failed.

                   At 6:20 a.m. on April 26, 2001, Cuban border guards caught three
                   infiltrators on Cayo Jutía, armed with four 7.62-millimeter AK-47
                   rifles, one M-3 rifle with silencer, three Makarov pistols, night-vision
                   and communication equipment, and more than $3,000 USD.

                   The names of the infiltrators were Ihosvani Suris de la Torre,
                   Santiago Padrón Quintero and Máximo "Robaina" Pradero Valdés.
                   The first, leader of the group, is known for collaborating with Rodolfo
                   Frómeta Caballero’s Miami terrorist organization called Commandos
                   F-4. The second, apart from his past as a common criminal, is an
                   Alpha 66 activist with military training. The third participated in a failed
                   infiltration attempt whose objective was to blow up the Havana
                   Tunnel.

                   While in a Cuban jail, Ihosvani Suris de la Torre confirmed during a
                   telephone conversation with Santiago Alvarez, broadcast by Cuban
                   television, that he had been ordered to set off an explosion in
                   Havana’s Tropicana cabaret.

                   Suris de la Torre and his accomplices are Miami residents and it can
                   be assumed, from their activity in terrorist circles, that they likewise
                   appear in Special Agent Héctor Pesquera’s files.

                   Can the FBI contend that it knew nothing about the Posada
                   Carriles-CANF connection, despite the public confession of the most
                   dangerous terrorist in the hemisphere?

                   Can the FBI claim that it knew nothing about Luis Posada Carriles’
                   terrorist plan, conceived in Miami, to be carried out in Panama by six
                   residents of that Florida city who are well known in circles that
                   promote violence?

                   Can the FBI confirm that it also knew nothing about the infiltration
                   plans of armed mercenaries recruited by Santiago Alvarez and his
                   accomplices?

                   It’s evident that the most important police force of the largest world
                   power could not have been completely ignorant of such conspiracies.

                   Meanwhile, President Bush shamelessly walked around Miami
                   escorted by confirmed terrorists who are participating in his brother
                   Jeb’s reelection campaign, and securing financial and organizational
                   support for his own reelection.

                   He walked the streets of Miami accompanied by the Miami
                   Connection, composed of 18 members of his administration who
                   maintain ties with Miami capos.

                   But as if that weren’t enough, at the same time as the disgraceful
                   anti-Cuba spectacle in Miami, attended by the local terrorist fauna’s
                   "eminencies," George Bush II and his 18 advisors connected with
                   that same gang were placing Cuba on their list of seven countries
                   presumed to be terrorist!

                   And at the same time, Bush keeps five Cuban patriots in his jails,
                   cruelly isolated, for fighting against the Miami groups that his "crime
                   fighters" tolerate more than ever.

                   Could it be that Bush is attempting, once again, to please the allies he
                   appreciates so much?