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| Havana, Cuba, August 1, 2006 Combinado del Este Prisión Building 1, 2nd Floor, Cell 1232 To the people of Cuba, fellow citizens, and persons fasting: The people of Cuba have been suffering the scorn of a totalitarian tyranny - in Communism -- for more than four decades. Due to this inhumane treatment where the civility of a people is violated, many indignant Cubans have risen to fast and to pray to our God of the Bible and are demanding the government adhere to international agreements on human rights (the international agreement for civil and political rights and other economic, social, and cultural rights) signed by the international community at the United Nations. As we have clearly explained, these demands are made to the Cuban government, independent of who is at the head of such a government, for we say as the people of Boston once said: "Tyranny is tyranny, come from where it may." This is why we must continue to fast and to pray until we obtain the government's signature, and expeditious adherence in the practice of respecting the human rights of the Cuban people. We must speed the acquisition of these basic human rights through Civil Disobedience. We must use all methods until we achieve our humanitarian end: "If there is no fight, there is no progress. Power does not concede anything without a demand, it never has, it never will." -- Frederick Douglas. We have the right to be free and to make use of our sovereignty as individuals and as a people. "Liberty alone brings with it peace and riches." -- José Martí. From this dark cell where I am forced to live, I will continue to resist until the freedom of my people is achieved. Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet (Message transmitted by La Nueva Cuba on August 20, 2006) ALPHA 66 takes as its own this call by Dr. Biscet and asks all those in exile to think about the best way to support this call to Civil Disobedience that has come to us from cell #1232 of the dreaded Cuban political prison system. |
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October 2005THE TRUTH OF ALPHA 66 By: Tania Díaz Castro
La Habana, Cuba—October (www.cubanet. org) We Cubans have always asked ourselves why the government of Fidel Castro calls Alpha 66 a terrorist organization when the tactics used by this organization are the same as those that were used to fight the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.
Founded 43 years ago and headquartered in Miami, Alpha 66 has claimed responsibility for the military operations that it has carried out on Cuban territory since 1962, the year it was founded.
On December 31, 1964 ex commander and chief of operations of Alpha 66, Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo, landed in Baracoa with the purpose of opening a guerrilla front just as Castro had done years earlier. Menoyo and three of his men were captured near the Moa River and served 22 years in prison after being sentenced to 50 years. Since 2003 Menoyo lives in Havana waiting for legal recognition of his pacifist organization, Cambio Cubano.
It is curious to note that almost all the founders of Alpha 66, including its recently deceased general secretary, Andrés Nazario Sargén, participated in the guerrilla struggle against Batista as members of the Second National Front of Escambray. It was during this time that they learned guerrilla tactics like ambushes, the use of snipers, surprise explosions and attacks against enemy installations and operations. They used these tactics because they lacked the numbers and necessary equipment to confront an established army.
The practice of this type of violent war is very ancient. The Bible relates how in this manner the Israelites under the command of Joshua conquered Canaan. Simón Bolívar, Miguel Hidalgo, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara are all examples of guerrilla leaders.
The poet and ex political prisoner (plantado) Ernesto Díaz Rodríguez is the new leader of Alpha 66. He was captured in a rural area of Pinar del Río on December 4, 1968 after landing with a group of guerrilla fighters. He was given a prison sentence of 45 years and served 22.
Díaz Rodríguez denounces the regime of Fidel Castro and affirms that his organization has never carried out terrorist acts that would bring panic to the population. He says that “ I wish the solution for Cuba could be through peaceful means” but he states that Alpha 66 is an organization of combat with the same strategy proposed by José Martí, Máximo Gómez and Antonio Maceo during the struggle for independence.
He further states that Alpha 66 “defends the right of Cubans to fight for the liberation of Cuba”. This is why they have a military training camp named Rumbo Sur where they train on shooting, karate, judo and other activities that are all legal in the United States.
Vicente
Méndez, an ex commander in the fight against Batista, is one
of Alpha 66 most respected martyr. He landed in Cuba on
Abril 17, 1970 and died in combat. Other martyrs of this
organization died by firing squad. These are the true
heroes that are fighting Castro’s totalitarianism and who
the Cuban government calls terrorists. This is a lie that
has been repeated for many years and it has yet to be proven
true.
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Castro Spies Get
Reprieve
Humberto FontovaOn September 14, 1998, the FBI uncovered a Castro spy ring in Miami and arrested ten of them. Four others managed to scoot back to Cuba. These became known as the "Wasp Network." According to the FBI's affidavit, these Castro agents were engaged in, among other acts: At the bail hearings, Assistant U.S. District Attorney Carolyn Heck Miller said the urgency to act on the case was because "the defendant has made allusions to the prospect of sabotage against buildings and airplanes in the Southern District of Florida." These Castro agents also infiltrated the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue. From them, Castro got the flight plan for one of their flights over the Florida straits, also known as "the cemetery without crosses." The estimates of the number of Cubans dying horribly in the "cemetery without crosses" run from 50,000 to 85,000. Brothers to the Rescue risked their lives almost daily, flying over the straits, alerting and guiding the Coast Guard to any balseros, and saving thousands of these desperate people from joining that terrible tally. By February of 1996 they'd flown 1,800 of these humanitarian missions and helped rescue 4,200 men, women and children. That month Castro's Wasp spies passed a Brothers flight plan to Havana. This allowed Castro and his military to ambush and shoot down (in international air space) two unarmed Brothers' planes. Four members of Brothers to the Rescue met a fiery death from the gallant Castro's MiGs. Three of these men were U.S. citizens, the other a legal U.S. resident. Armando Alejandre Jr. came to the U.S. at age 10 in 1960. His first order of business when he reached the age of 18 was fulfilling his dream of becoming a U.S. citizen. His next was joining the United States Marine Corps and volunteering for service in Vietnam. He returned with several decorations. As a member of Brothers to the Rescue, he often dropped flowers over the sea in memory of the thousands they'd been unable to rescue in time. A man with a weapon or with both hands free to fight has always palsied Castro with fright. The notion of Fidel Castro facing a United States Marine in combat mode is simply laughable, in a pathetic way. So Castro waited for Armando and his Brothers to be carrying flowers -– and made his move, murdering them in cold blood. MiGs against Cessnas, cannon and rockets against flowers. This is a Castro specialty. In high school Fidel got into an argument over a debt (he was always a deadbeat) with a schoolmate named Ramon Mestre, who pounded him like a gong. Fidel cried uncle and slunk away whimpering that he'd go fetch the money he owed Ramon. Instead he came back with a cocked pistol, hoping to surprise and murder the unarmed Mestre, who'd already gone home. There's your genuine Fidel in all his macho splendor. He does have a long memory, however. Six months after he grabbed power, Castro had his goons grab Senor Mestre, who then suffered 20 years in Castro's dungeons. The premeditated atrocity against Alejandre and his Brothers is what added the "manslaughter" and "conspiracy to commit murder" charges (on top of the ones listed above, 26 charges total) against the Wasp Network spies. Came the trial, and lawyers for Castro's agents' all ranted and raved that "no Cuban-Americans should be on the jury!" Interestingly, Leonard Weinglass, who represents Gerardo Hernandez, the Brothers to the Rescue infiltrator/spy charged with manslaughter, has represented Jane Fonda, Pentagon Papers defendant Anthony Russo, Angela Davis, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Chicago Seven, Amy Carter and Mumia Abu-Jamal. He's known as a specialist in 'civil rights' and 'human rights.' But ah! When it came to Cuban-Americans? Now Weinglass argued vehemently against their right to serve on a jury based simply on their ethnicity. The U.S. Supreme Court itself supposedly prohibits this: "The Equal Protection Clause guarantees that the State will not exclude from the jury venire anyone on account of race, or on the false assumption that members of his race as a group are not qualified to serve as jurors." This from a case titled Batson v. Kentucky (1986.) "By denying a person participation in jury service on account of his race, the State also unconstitutionally discriminates against the excluded juror," the Court decision continues. Apparently not when it comes to Cuban-Americans. As we all know by now, none of the usual liberal bugaboos and standards apply to a minority that votes overwhelmingly Republican. During the Elian circus the New York press ran an article by Stalinist Alexander Cockburn urging the "nuking" of Little Havana. OK, so it was in jest. But the same jesting with regard to Harlem, the Bronx or East Los Angles would have sent Cockburn to the unemployment office, mandatory "sensitivity training" or maybe to Weinglass himself to defend him against a "hate-speech" rap. At any rate, not a peep was heard from the usual "civil rights watchdogs" (the Miami Herald, for instance) about the expressly racist request by the "civil rights" attorney and "activist" Weinglass –- and one that violated a decision by the Supreme Court itself. And no objection by the judges either. They agreed with Weinglass and the rest of the defense and excluded Cuban-Americans from the jury like the very plague. "The case would be infected with prejudice," argued another defense lawyer, Paul McKenna. And again, after the judges' decision in agreement with Weinglass and McKenna, nary a peep from "civil rights" mongers. Well, came June of 2001 and that jury -– utterly free from "infection" by a single Cuban-American –- found all five of the Castro spies guilty as charged on all 26 counts. The evidence against them was absolutely overwhelming and devastating. The jury concluded that these five were patently agents of America's most hate-filled enemy, and bent on damaging their country. It didn't take a Cuban-American to see this. Last week, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta (the same one that ruled Elian Gonzalez could not apply for political asylum even though the very INS manual has examples of 6-year-olds applying for asylum – "Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant," p. 169) overturned the conviction of the Castro spies. The 93-page opinion states that seating an impartial jury (even one thoroughly disinfected against Cuban- Americans) was an "unreasonable probability because of pervasive community prejudice." "Never before in the history of the United States has a federal circuit court of appeals reversed a trial court's finding with respect to venue. This is a first!" crowed a triumphant Leonard Weinglass from atop his dunghill of cases. Apparently, just having Cuban-Americans in the same community as other jurors infects them! By the way, Cuban-Americans make up only 1/4 of the community in which the trial was held. You really gotta hand it to us. We are one influential bunch! It's starting to go to my head. We make up a minuscule 1/300 of the U.S. population, yet -– from all I keep hearing and reading in the MSM (mainstream media) -– we not only decide jury verdicts through some form of telepathy, osmosis or bribery, we also control U.S. foreign policy with a firm testicular grip. "Cuba policy isn't made in Washington," harrumphed Bill Press in a CNN column. "It's made in Miami by former Batista supporters who think they can reverse history!" "A small number of powerful exiles in South Florida cow our politicians into keeping the crazy Cuban policy!" snapped media baron Al Neuharth in a USA Today column. "Man, we BAD!" I finally started shouting, while strutting around like Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in the movie "Stir Crazy." There are others besides Weinglass and McKenna simply delighted by last week's decision. "This Atlanta court decision was demonstrative of the dignity, decorum and professionalism of the three judges, who merit all our respect." That ode comes from none other than Ricardo Alarcon, the eunuch who serves as Castro's "President" of Cuba's "National Assembly," which is to say: the representative of a regime whose first order of business on January 9, 1959, was abolishing habeas corpus and introducing the death penalty to apply retroactively. This is the same regime whose main executioner and magistrate at the time, Che Guevara, took a brief breather from murdering hundreds of men (and boys, some as young as 15) without trial to declare: "To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! We execute from revolutionary conviction!" The three Atlanta judges should feel very proud of their accolades by such august adherents of civilized jurisprudence. Humberto Fontova is author of
"Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant,"
described as "absolutely devastating. An enlightening read you'll never
forget" by David Limbaugh. "A remarkable book," says Phil Brennan. "An
eye-opener. Fontova explodes myth after myth." David Horowitz says: "Humberto
Fontova has performed a valuable service to the cause of decency and human
freedom. Every American should read this book."
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June 2005 "THEY WANT TO DEPRIVE ME OF MY HOMELAND, BUT I ACCEPT NO MASTER." By Juan Carlos Herrera (Condemned to 20 years in prison during the repressive wave of March 2003 - Actually at PRISION KILO 7, Camaguey. Cuba.) Sixteen years ago (March of 1988), I began to experiment changes in my perspective on Cuba's reality and all that was in my surroundings. I perceived that living beneath the supposed socialism were only government parasites, specifically within the upper echelons of power--in other words, those who are in power today. I understood the falseness of the blurted slogans, the wasted five-year plans, of the total backwardness, and of the hundreds of thousands of Cubans fleeing the abstractions, the imposition, and the supposed uniformity. The Florida Straits and the perimeter bordering on the Guantanamo Base became large cemeteries. During the almost thirty years of "Revolution" that had passed, I understood that a Cuban only carried to the grave hopelessness and pain, in addition to a life plagued with uncertainty. We march to other lands under a supposed proletarian internationalism in the midst of an economy more inefficient by the day. Almost suddenly, I found myself in the middle of a tunnel. I managed to see the light and my neurons began to act independently of the induced political manipulations, for they no longer found a handle to hold onto in a single atom of my body. The collapse of the system that made so many promises regarding a "new man" and a luminous future, totally evaporated. Radical changes were taking place in what were formerly our "protectors"--their societies and their citizens were claiming freedoms suppressed and trampled upon. I finished by proving that I lived under a political sequestration and, without realizing it, I was simply a victim of a macabre socio-political experiment. It was then that I opened my eyes, and although I found myself trapped within a monster, I needed to express myself with total freedom. The day arrived which marked a radical change in the history of humanity. Soviet Socialism fell and with it the strings that held dozens of European nations--and almost like a magic act, so did the subsidies that had supported the Cuban dictatorship. With all my being, I yelled, "Eureka!!" I already knew that I lived under a degrading police state, so I took the just course. After experimenting with unbiased, uncensored literature (of course, in a clandestine manner), I carried out comparisons to prove that I was right--that I should reclaim my rights which had been usurped and amputated. How many lies in the speeches of the Cuban Cesar? I managed to publicly classify him as a "Czar", and in spite of my youth, I began to have contact with dignified Cubans in Havana and in my native Guantanamo who themselves were detested by the dictator-in-chief. I did not know the true history of Cuba. It's all distorted. What I previously saw as a system of "justice" was nothing more than a great farce, a constitution elaborated only to represent the interests of those in power, while the people of Cuba lived totally oppressed by the state. A nation of brave men and women ended up bound hand and feet by a vile and conniving political betrayal. The biggest lunatic had curtailed rights and planted the seeds of terror in the face of popular discontent. The new constitution of the Republic (1976) is a dishonor, where the citizens are declared as "non-persons'. In opposition to the Great Chief emerged what is today the great movement for human rights composed of noble Cubans. The ruler, heartless and resentful, viciously attacked back. Many faced filthy dungeons and many more saw themselves forced into exile. But for those brave Cubans there remains in their hearts the hope of recuperating a homeland once lost and decimated, enslaved in the midst of total chaos. We do not resign ourselves to live on our knees even though prison or death may be our destiny. Ever since I was able to glance at the horizon of the national reality, and listen to the many redundant speeches plagued with lies that pictured a "paradise" today unattainable, I decided to say enough to so many injustices and cruelties. No more rights infringed upon in the midst of an inexorable fundamentalism that obliges millions of citizens to coexist under an induced mutism of subtle methods degrading to all. It's been 45 years of political, economic, and social immobility under the aegis of an illegitimate, egocentric personality that stirs and divides his own people. Personally, I suffer the vindictive political shrapnel of the Great Dictator, but I do not resign myself to let freedom die. Twice the tyrant-in-chief has sent me to prison. The crime? Not being in agreement with the omnipresent power that causes such pain to the nation. I don't regret being behind bars because it fills me with pride to know that I am not one of the double-thinkers, and that I follow the ideas of the greatest and most distinguished of Cubans, Jose Marti. The Apostle once declared: "I want the highest law of the land to be the Cuban people's tribute to the dignity of man". I follow his lessons along with many other courageous compatriots who suffer, and not a single lament is heard. Today, the ideas are imprisoned, but they will not die. We are tortured physically and psychologically, but we do not bow our heads, and we resist from the depths of the gut of the Castroite monster that makes up his inhospitable dungeons. Not only are we enclosed and confined, but also we lack the most inherent necessities. We are treated like non-persons and within the prisons we cannot even aspire to adequate medical treatment, amongst hundreds of other violations. Hundreds of Cubans today are proudly behind iron bars, but they are not defeated. They want to deprive us from being a part of the nation. They confine us, but hope lives on because one day the longed for freedom will arrive, although the price to be paid has been high. That day, not too distant, a monument will be erected for all the victims of the black Castroism, to the ones who have fled from terror, to the ones who gave their lives in prisons, but who never accepted the despicable boots of a master. I live proud to be one of the 75 victims of the black spring of 2003 because I know that the ideas will flourish in the midst of a Free Nation, clean, and with an open heart for all. Although today they want to deprive me of my homeland, I do not accept a master. This information received from Cuba through Cuba Net is a valiant and masterful exposition of the tragedy suffered by the youth in Cuba......Alpha 66 |
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| ALPHA 66: THE TRUTH COMES OUT Tania Díaz Castro Havana, December (www.cubanet.org) The strategies used by the government of Fidel Castro against its opponents have been so varied over these 45 years that a simple look will discover the lies in that history. The judicial process that took place in the Cabaña Prison on October 9, 1974 against various members of the anti-Castro organization Alpha 66, like many other trials, is absolute proof that the Cuban regime has done whatever it has wanted against its opposition. It has used the judicial process to its advantage every time. During the trial Alpha 66 was labeled a counter-revolutionary organization. It was not labeled terrorist as the government began calling it soon after, even though by 1974 this organization had been in existence for thirteen years. But the biggest surprise was received in 1995 when Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, ex commander in the struggle against Batista and ex head of military operations for Alpha 66 visited Havana with his family. It was revealed at this time, and not through the national press but by the voice of the people that he had dialogued with Fidel Castro. This even after the regime had labeled Menoyo's old organization, terrorist. However, the only terrorist acts that the Cuban people in our streets remember are those committed by the 26 of July Movement and the Revolutionary Directorate. These were armed attacks against military garrisons, police stations, and the Presidential Palace. They were also sabotages against public services like telephones and places like movie theaters, night clubs, etc. These were all referenced by the daily Granma this past November 30. Recently Nazario Sargen, secretary general of Alpha 66 and ex commander of the Second Front of the Escambray during the struggle against Batista passed away. From his exile, Nazario Sargen was completely dedicated to the cause of freedom for his homeland. The poet and ex political prisoner, Ernesto Díaz Rodríguez, a man whom the Castro political police could not break during the 22 years he spent in prison is replacing Nazario Sargen. Díaz Rodríguez was imprisoned after an armed confrontation in the Province of Pinar del Río on December 4, 1968. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. For continuing the activities of his organization inside prison he was given a sentence of 25 years at a trial that he has described as a gross farce and something very typical in the island of Fidel Castro. The history of Alpha 66 remains to be written. Only then will the entire truth be revealed. |
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September 2002 SPEAKING FOR THE CUBAN PEOPLE By: Miguel L. Talleda The Congress of the United States is poised to pressure the Bush Administration to end the embargo imposed by President Kennedy thatprevents any trade or credit agreements with the Communist government of Fidel Castro. If this craziness succeeds it would be an enormous historical black mark in the politics of this country. Why? First, it would give the tyrannical government of Fidel Castro breathing room by opening the doors to credit that is controlled by the U.S. at a time when his world standing is totally discredited. Second, it would create a open door for American tourists that would help financially to consolidate the economy of the Communist system in Cuba to the detriment of the Cuban people. The Cuban people would see their suffering prolonged under a cruel system at a time when their own pressure against the government has Castro on the verge of a collapse. So then, why? Because members of Congress are being pressured by special interests that for years have been “friends” of Fidel Castro and have begun a campaign to convince the American people that “selling to Cuba would help the agricultural industry in the U.S.” Can one conceive such stupidity? They also say that ending the embargo will help the Cuban people. Is it possible that at this stage they still don’t know how Fidel Castro works? Don’t they realize that by lifting the embargo they will HELP CREATE A PERMANENT COMMUNIST PROTECTORATE in our unfortunate island? But actually the Cuban people think differently and this is good to know. Alpha 66 also thinks differently and it is well worth repeating one more time. See the following declaration received via the internet from Matanzas, Cuba. Pro Democracy Party Pedro Luis Boitel Calle Peatonal C No. 6, Las Canteras Perico Matanzas, Cuba, Tel/Fax 534-58-2845 WE WISH TO INFORM: The Cuban people find the Cuban government (1959-present) responsible for the total economic bankruptcy and the current external debt of Cuba. Any individual, institution, corporation, or government that has cooperated or plans to cooperate in any way with the current Cuban government is only helping to prolong a totalitarian government that does not and never has represented the interests of the Cuban people. The Cuban people will exercise its legal rights when the moment arrives to recover its national heritage and be compensated for the damages incurred since 1959 to the present. Cuba will be free by the efforts of its own people. To this we swear before God and the Cuban nation today, September 12, 2002, in the city of Matanzas, Cuba. Félix Navarro Rodriguez, President; Tomás Fernández Tiher, Vice-President; Emilio Bringas Dévora, National Coordinator (The above was received from www.payolibre.com/presos.htm) There is no doubt that the voices coming from Cuba as well as our own from exile speak for the Cuban people. |
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May 2002 WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ELIAN GONZALEZ? By April Shenandoah With every hot story, the news media will milk it for all it's worth -- even when it is over. When stories do die they usually resurface from time to time. Why the exception with the Elián González case? Haven't journalists been curious after the fact as to the whereabouts and emotional condition of the key players - especially cousin Marisleysis who Elián was so attached to and the great-uncle, Lázaro? And what about the fisherman Donato Dalrymple who rescued the six year old from the Atlantic Ocean -- and later tried to protect him by hiding in the closet when the submachine gun wheeling feds broke down the doors and raided the González home? Where were the interviews with the Mayor of Miami and Governor Bush? It's as if the family disappeared and Elián never existed, except for when Castro wants to put out a little propaganda. Instinct tells me that the Justice Department, the immigration and Naturalization Service and Janet Reno muzzled everybody concerned. Since that April 22, 2000 Eastern morning (5:15am), when little Elián was taken by force, there has been barely a peep out of anyone. At long last information explaining the silence mey be forthcoming. Conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch released an internal INS e-mail memo making claims of anti-Cuban-Ameican bias at the INS headquarters in Miami. Doris Meissner, chief of the INS, ordered that any copies of the memo be destroyed. It is noted that she may have also ordered the destruccion of other case documents as she ordered that no more discussions related to Elian's case be put in writing. Recently, Armando Gutierrez, former spokesman for Elián's Miami relatives, has requested that U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft investigate the possible destruction of internal documents by high-ranking INS officials. Meissner did acknowledge that no notes be taken or memos circulated concerning the boy's case because the issue is too sensitive. You bet it is too sensitive! The entire scenario played out buy Janet Reno and the Clinton administration was/is insensitive and evil! My heart broke -- not only for Elián but also for the country. Those of us who were affected, almost sick, knew it was a sign of what American has become. Senator Bod Smith from New Hampshire was deeply troubled, as he knew exactly was was going down. He was a go-between consoling and assisting the family as best he could. When Elián was being held at Andrews Air Force Base with his father, Senator Smith was turned away not being allowed to enter. Again - a United States senator denied access to a military base! What does that say? When I went to the Senator's office in Washington DC and asked the obvious questions of why this was happening in America, this is the answer I received, "They are all Communists. Ëlián's father, Juan Miguel, was silenced while he was in this country. He was watched every minute and never spoke for himself. If allowed, he would have freely gone to Miami to visit his relatives. It should have been a family matter instead of an orchestrated Gestapo operation ordered by Castro. Unbeknownst to most of us, there was be a reason that our government kowtows to dictators. Now we have former President Carter and journalist Kate Snow propagandizing for Castro from Havana. CNN reported, "According to the United Nations," 96% of Cuban students are literate and are learning English as well as Spanish. Cuba has turned mansions into schools of learning. Ms. Snow, interviewing a Cuban woman about healthcare, "We were born with that 'right' we do not know anything else."The news piece was blatantly glorifying the Cuban way of life making it sound as if they have a system that "works." The average American will actually buy that pack of lies. Then -- when we talk of socialized medicine and the govenment controlling our children, those same American people will think that it is a good idea. Propaganda works! Take a look around! Mr. Carter you could hae done a good deed and gone to Cárdenas and said hi to Elián for us. Perhaps the media would have followed with their cameras so we could have seen for ourselves that he is living as well as Castro has said. Oh, you were not allowed to go there? Thanks anyway, at least you said "Hi"to Castro for us! |
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Article published on February 7, 2002, in the section "Your Views,"
letters to the Editor, by the Daily Breeze, one of the most
important newspapers in the Los Angeles area. |
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January 2001 THINGS WE CAN NEVER OVERLOOK By Adrian (Received directly from Cuba) To bring Fidel Castro to trial would not only serve to eliminate a tyrant but would also lead to a democratic regime. In reality it would mean to make him pay for all the crimes he has committed against the Cuban people and other peoples in the world with his confessed terrorism. Fidel Castro is the most corrupt and ruthless ruler that Cuba has had since 1492. He is the biggest liar, most demagogic, corrupt and immoral political leader (if he can be labeled this) that our nation has suffered. His demise would not only lead to an acceleration of the process for change, but would also serve to eliminate from our society his debauchery and serve as an example for the generations of delinquents surrounding him. If Fidel Castro were to be tried by an international justice tribunal, he would undoubtedly be condemned. Ariel Hidalgo* failed to mention (or perhaps forgot?) that under the tyranny of Castro more than 17,000 people have been executed without any trial or due process. This means they were practically assassinated. Thousands have perished in the Straits of Florida while fleeing Castro. Thousands more died in futile wars. The list of crimes against humanity during these past 42 years is endless and constitutes a black mark in our history. To eliminate Castro would be an act of justice and never one of shame. *Published in El Nuevo Herald, 1/22/01 |
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January 2001 THE MOMENT IS GETTING CLOSER FOR A MORE FRONTAL ATTACK By Adrian (Received by telephone directly from Cuba) The problem with the Czechs detained in Cuba, for visiting two activists in Ciego de Avila, is being cleverly manipulated by the Cuban authorities. To begin with, the country has been visited by hundreds of journalists, law makers, political figures, social and religious leaders, from different trends, who have interviewed Elizardo Sánchez, Payá and other moderate dissidents, in many occasions and there was never any type of incident. Even after the reunion with the “dissidents,” many of those personalities were received by Castro himself. But now, Cuba has some spies facing a judicial process in Miami and needs to have “something” at hand to overcome what is coming over them. Even though no reaction is expected from Havana in that sense. Simply, they show no remorse and will continue to claim their right to spy. Castro himself said so and Clinton accepted it. On the other hand, Castro needs to feel important. Let us remember the “leader”. Castro considers himself a born leader. A positive one to his unconditional followers and a negative one to his opponents, but a leader anyway. He wants to force the European Union to sit down with him and discuss, at the highest possible level, any actions against his regime, organized by the United States, using European citizens, and turning all this into a giant propaganda campaign on his behalf. This will take place after he frees the Czechs. They are already preparing the best conditions for such an event. He will only need a declaration of guilt by the Czechs against those in the United States who incited them into such an adventure, and then they would be freed. If we add to this that there is no Cuban detained for such visits, we can understand why it is all a trick. Let see what Femenias and Valdivia, from Ciego de Avila, will testify about it. I haven’t heard from them so far. We will have to wait and see. The truth is that all the avenues in matters of intelligence are being exhausted by the Castro's regime. The ideological breakdown is such that he is even afraid of his own followers. Here, at this time, everybody is being watched. The principal focus of the constantly renovated internal control apparatus of the Interior Ministry (controlled by Castro himself) are the generals, other military chiefs, ministers, and vice-ministers, managers, directors of organizations and all the confidential personnel, that work in corporations and mixed associations with foreigners. I think the counter-intelligence apparatus is diminishing by so many functions. All this proves the ideological weakness of the regime. The moment is approaching for a more frontal attack, disregarding the outdated models of struggle, that has been followed by the internal opposition in the last few years, with the consent of the Clinton administration. We continue to follow from within the Cuban agenda. Let's hope that our positions will remain intact, or even incremented inside our official guidelines. The moment is excellent for it. |
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January 2001 CYNICISM By Adrián (Received by telephone directly from Cuba) The Cuban government has just broken the boundaries of cynicism and lack of scruples. It has to do with the death of two young men that stowed away in the landing gear of an airplane flying to London in an effort to escape from Castro. A sense of frustration, hopelessness, and the absence of any future are some of the reasons that drove these young people to such an adventure. There are thousands of young people with the same ideas but perhaps lacking in possibilities or courage. And now the server, the oppressor, the one that forced almost two million Cubans to emigrate, mobilized the students and workers to protest in front of the U.S. Interest Section accusing the Americans of causing the stampede of a whole nation while organizing a “much felt” funeral for the young men. The boundaries of cynicism, deception, and manipulation have been broken. To stop more people from leaving this land what needs to be done is overthrow Castro. The foreign press is an accomplice of the situation in Cuba. Therefore, the version that the international public opinion has for the reasons of the Cuban migration is very limited. We have to keep working toward our goal of overthrowing Castro. There is no other alternative…All other things favor him…Remember he has no shame. |
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This is a news item received directly from Havana and is self-explanatory. January 28, 2001 PRESENCE OF ALPHA 66 IN HAVANA On Sunday, January 28, on the anniversary of the birth of José Martí, leaflets with anti-governments slogans and signed by ALPHA 66 appeared in different locations throughout Havana, despite the large presence of police in the city. According to some confirmed reports we received by telephone, leaflets appeared at Linea y Malecon, in El Vedado; in the intersection of Virgen del Camino, in San Miguel del Padron; and on 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, in Miramar. In all these locations the leaflets were signed by ALPHA 66. There are unconfirmed reports that more leaflets were found in other areas of the city. In cases of this kind, the government authorities immediately try to pick up all anti-government material in the most discreet manner. What is significant is that this kind of activity is occurring at a time when the Castro government is facing the highest level of ideological fatigue in its history and has had no other alternative but to increase repression in order to stay in power. |
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| April, 2000 THE V FOR VICTORY By Miguel L. Talleda The three years sentence imposed by a court in Havana to Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet for supposedly dishonoring a patriotic symbol by hanging three Cuban flags upside down at his home, where an act of protest was being organized (article by Vivian Sequera in the Jersey Journal 2-26-00) constitutes one more outrageous abuse to try to intimidate de resistance inside Cuba. The Cuban resistance, without fear, is defending our right to be a free country with all the rights that today the tyrannous Castro regime violates with impunity. This young doctor whose presence and physic reminds us of General Antonio Maceo, one of our heroes in the War of Independence against Spain, has been a sore thorn stuck in the side of the despotic regime. Organizer of the Lawton Foundation, a group that has participated in several protests, among them the hunger strike that lasted one month at Tamarindo 34, in Havana, Biscet has withstood the abuses of the regime against him and his family with dignity. He personifies the new generation, the youth, that carries the ideals that have been a part of the spirit of our eternal Cuba. The spirit that rose in the Ten Years War in 1868; the one that José Martí gathered for the War of Independence and the spirit of the Republic that were always firm while facing the ones that tried to drown our liberties. On January 20, while in jail, even before the IX President’s Summit held in Havana last November, Oscar Elias Biscet, wrote to the U.S. Supreme Court (Alba Herrera Rohdes in LVDCL)(*) from a walled cell, informing them that he is praying that God, would them the wisdom to make the right decision in the case of the child Elián González, so that he can live in liberty and not to be one more victim of the tyrant Castro. He finished his letter to the Supreme Court with this: “I ask myself, what is life without freedom? Nothing. Without freedom life is deprived of the Love of God. Justice extols or lifts up a nation, sin, drives it in shame. Proverbs.” What a gesture in the face of so much cowardice! But even after the verdict that sentenced him to three years in a horrible prison, Dr. Elias Biscet in front of his crying mother Hilda González, and his wife Elsa Morejón, sent us a message of faith in the final victory, by making the “V” for victory sign to the public and the media. This reminds us of the dark days of World War II, when Hitler seemed to devour the world, and the spirit of the free world received a similar feeling of strength watching Winston Churchill make the symbolic “V” for victory, because symbols are essential when the storms intensify. This is the message of triumph that Oscar Elias Biscet sends us with his courageous behavior as he displays the “V” for victory. (*) LVDCL (La Voz de Cuba Libre) The Voice of Free Cuba. A Syberspace news informative. |
February 1999
MANIFESTO |
We have just received news from the underground in Cuba
and reaffirmed by a later conversation of the plans to celebrate the February 24, 1895
date when the Independence War began against Spain. Better known as "EL GRITO DE BAIRE" (The Cry of
Baire), this date honors the "Mambises", the name given to the Cuban warriors of
that time, as a mean to further establish our cause in the battle in which we find
ourselves today. This is a simple item not attributable to
any specific group and will serve as a statement to the people within the island and to
those in exile.
This event recruits or invites people to meet regardless of their group affiliation ON ANY STREET CORNER OR PARK. The purpose is
to distribute information about the historical event that initiated the Independence War
and in a simple and nonconfrontational manner honor those who fought and died. February 24
had always been a national holiday in Cuba, when workers celebrated and had the day off
with pay. That was before Cuba's association with Communism.
Our goal is to publicize this plan and idea to the Cuban people by whatever means
necessary. This is what has been requested of us. We understand the difficulties in
spreading this information within the towns and cities of Cuba and the call to "GO OUT ONTO THE STREETS" needs our help.
Again we request your assistance in getting this information
out to as many as possible; via radio, newspapers,
television, telephone, letters to friends and relatives and those actually traveling to
Cuba.
We must not let this genuine and transcendental act coming from theCuban underground go
unnoticed by the exile community. We ask you, those Cubans living outside the country to
also unite and express our solidarity in supporting our brothers and sisters inside Cuba
by meeting in a park on the same day of February 24.
ALPHA 66
National Executive Committee
January 1999
IS THERE ANYTHING WORTH CELEBRATING IN 40 YEARS OF TYRANNY
Used, haggard, and just the shadow of his old arrogance, Fidel Castro celebrated on
January 1st, in Santiago de Cuba, along with his henchmen, forty years of the revolution
that the people of Cuba carried out to topple Batista and which he converted in a sinister
communist tyranny. There were a mere one thousand people in this commemoration of the same
date in 1959, when a multitude of thousands celebrated what was supposed to be the return
of hope and liberty.
On this occasion he read his speech, dividing it in two parts. One, to talk about all the
marvelous things he had done for Cuba. A real paradise, according to his sick imagination,
where all was happiness and success. One only has to imagine when his audience returned to
their homes and found their children with no shoes, dressed in rags and asking for
something to eat. What would they think? How is it possible to explain the differences
between reality and the wonders that Castro described in his speech? Of course he
didn’t mention the firing squads active for forty years, the prisons full of Cubans
in jails for just expressing their discontent. He never mentioned those who continue to
risk their lives by taking to the shark infested waters of the Caribbean to run away from
his oppressive gulag.
In the second part of his speech, and leaving no doubt of his political ignorance, he
announced the demise and failure of capitalism. And we wonder. Is it possible that Mr.
Castro does not know that what has been a complete failure is the communist system, with
its Marxism-Leninism and all that absurd theories which have only served to stain the 20
Century with the blood of countless individuals. Could it be possible he doesn’t
realize that he is riding a dead “burro”? That for him and his corrupt system
the time has gone by and there is no future?
It seems he doesn’t hear the voice of the people. In November and December two strong
protests occurred in Havana. One in front of the Court Building, where a trial against a
journalist was going on, and the other in Butari’s Park where a march was to start,
by people celebrating the 50 anniversary of the Human Rights document. The repressive
forces of the tyranny broke up both of these protests. In most cities graffiti of
“Fidel go”, “Down with Fidel” “Viva Alpha 66” is common. In
Santiago de Cuba, and just days before Castro's celebration, two huge signs appeared with
a very provocative message: “Fidel Go - We are hungry”.
All these signs of discontent, plus numerous acts of sabotage throughout the island are
being reported by independent, courageous journalists in Cuba. These are omens that we are
getting close to the tragic finale of the red nightmare. All Cubans in exile must see that
we are marching at the same pace with these events.
We nourish ourselves with the monthly dues from our members and sympathizers, each contributing accordingly to his or her income or circumstances. We also conduct fund raising events, which are organized around patriotic days or historic acts of our heroes and martyrs. Other activities, such as the sale of donated articles, constitute income for our continued struggle.
We ask that you look in your heart to see if you want to be a part of this epic fight, which has been combating the tyranny for more that 37 years, without faltering a single day. With more assistance, we could accelerate the pace of our struggle to a decisive point.
Contact one of the four representatives in our electronic
mail system which appears on our page. In addition, we will soon invite you to participate
in our next General Assembly which will take place at the beginning of next year.
PLACETAS,
CUBA - April 27 (Lic. Guillermo Fariñas Hernández, Cubanacán
Press/Puenteinfocubamiami.org) - I dreamed of this interviewed
for the longest time, but it could not take place on April 22 of
2007, day when Antunez was released from prison. Several factors
interfered; the most important factor I did not take into
account was the "agoraphobia" syndrome, a psychological state of
mind that consists of the difficulty of a human being to adapt
to live in open spaces after spending many years in severe
confinement.
PRISON CONDITIONS 
