RE: [Marxism] Fidel Castro's May Day speech

["Eli Stephens" <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From Left I on the News (links in the original)
<http://lefti.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_lefti_archive.html#111505692973017199>

Posada Carriles - the coverup continues

That would be the coverup by the U.S. media of his crimes, described in
detail in a previous post. The AP story on May Day, in which Fidel Castro is
described as demanding the U.S. expel Posada Carriles, is sub-headlined (in
the San Jose Mercury News): "Demand from Cuba: Castro seeks terror suspect
in U.S. custody", a headline which is triply false. First, Cuba is not
"seeking" Posada Carriles, but demanding he not be granted asylum in the
U.S.; their actual demand is that he be sent back to Venezuela from where he
escaped from prison while awaiting final disposition in his trial for the
murder of 73 people. Second, Posada Carriles is not a "terror suspect", he's
a "terrorist". He has been convicted in trials in both Venezuela and Panama,
and has publicly bragged about directing the bombings of hotels in Cuba
(including the murder of one tourist). And finally, Posada Carriles is not
in "U.S. custody", though he is in the U.S. and it's quite possible he got
here with the complicity of U.S. officials and almost certain that they know
exactly where he is.

Then we have an interesting sentence like this:

"Posada, now 77, and three associates were imprisoned in Panama in an
alleged plot in 2000 to kill Castro at a conference in Panama."

They were not just "imprisoned", they were tried and convicted (and, as
thousands of people imprisoned by the U.S. in Guantanamo, Iraq, and
Afghanistan are well aware, there is very much a differenc e between the
two). And the use of the phrase "alleged plot" is rather interesting -
Posada Carriles and his anti-Castro associates had in their possession 20
pounds of the high plastic explosive C-4. and were caught entering Panama at
a time that Castro was there to attend a conference. Alleged plot? I don't
think so.


Eli Stephens
 Left I on the News
 http://lefti.blogspot.com



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