[Marxism] [Cuba] Illegal And Dangerous Provocations! - U.S. Use of Warplanes Adds Dangerous Elem

["David Quarter" <davidquarter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Forward from mart.

IMPORTANT!
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!

MESSAGE TO BUSH: "REMEMBER - 'REGIME CHANGE'
BEGINS AT HOME!" U.S. HANDS OFF CUBA!!
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Prensa Latina, Havana - May 12, 2004
http://www.plenglish.com

US Use of Warplanes Adds Dangerous
Element to Cuba Relations

Havana, May 12 (Prensa Latina) The decision of the Bush
administration to use C-130 Air Force military planes to
increment subversive broadcasts to Cuba raises the temperature
of already heated bilateral relations.

Although all the new destabilizing measures are aggressive,
use of a warplane is especially alarming due to the real risk
of incidents on the maritime frontier between the two
countries.

US invasion of Cuban radio-electronic space began in 1960
with 20-hour a day programming that was a virtual weapon, including
messages to secret agents and saboteurs to carry
out terrorist actions on the Island.

The situation escalated under Ronald Reagan, who initiated powerful
transmissions by the misnomered Radio Marti;
ill-named because  Cubans are particularly offended by use
of national hero Jose Marti's name in such connection, as
Marti repeatedly warned of the dangers to Cuba and Latin
America from "the monster of the North."

George Bush Senior added to the insults with TV Marti
broadcasts in Spanish, but the Cuban government has
limited itself to technically impeding the signals and
denouncing the invasion to international organizations
and at world fora, particularly the International
Telecommunications Union.

Despite the continuous ITU verdict in favor of Cuba, far
from removing Radio and TV Marti, successive US
administrations have budgeted new funds to modernize
them.

The imminent threat posed by George W. Bush must be
taken in the context of the two times in the last six months
that he has tried to provoke a military confrontation with
Cuba.

As warned in February by renowned German researcher and
sociologist Hans Dieterich Steffan, one of those was the US
government use of six fighter-bombers to transmit Radio Marti
in order to provoke an air incident.

Steffan also reported that in 1989 a retired US admiral
revealed many practice attacks on Cuba, including one
when 80 fighter-bombers with live ammunition flew in
attack formation to Cuba to test the efficiency of Cuban
radar. Had Cuba fired a rocket or done something similar,
they were to have attacked, he reported.

In this context, Cuban analysts have warned of the danger
of C-130s flying in anti-Cuban actions, including the risk
of a mechanical difficulty or other accident that could
provoke an unforeseeable outcome.

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