Now the Condor is against Venezuela
"Days of struggle and battling for life, a combat meeting of all the peoples and the victims and relatives of acts of terrorism organized by US administrations and perpetrated on our continent by its
special services," was President Fidel Castro’s description of the conference against terrorism, for truth and justice currently underway in Havana.
"It is an exceptional event, he said, "in which we are fighting for life and independence and against the domination that the US superpower is attempting to
impose in our hemisphere. Moreover, it is an exchange in which we have heard marvelous, moving, brilliant testimonies and statements, in which mothers have taken the place of their deceased or disappeared sons and daughters and sons and daughters the combat post of their parents who sadly are no longer
with us.
In another part of his address, the leader of the Cuban Revolution emphasized that there has to be an advance and a growing conscience among the peoples of the world. "I cherish the hope that this will happen rapidly," he affirmed.
He condemned the US government policy of aggression, its
attempts to protect terrorists like Posada Carriles and the Washington plots against the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez. "Now the Condor is against Venezuela," he warned.
The morning session yesterday opened with the panel Terrorism: the memory, in which specialists on the subject, researchers and
other participants exposed the macabre entrails of Operation Condor, encouraged and sustained by the dirty and criminal policy of the United States against the countries of the region.
Alfredo Boccia, a Paraguayan doctor and researcher, stated that state terrorism has resulted in more than 30,000
victims in the Southern Cone of Latin America, and in his country more than one million citizens witnessed the horrors of the dictatorship from the sad reality of exile.
Norah Cortiñas, one of the founder members of the Plaza de Mayo Madres, revealed that during Operation Condor in Argentina the
dictatorship installed 500 concentration camps where thousands of people were tortured and murdered.
Likewise, José Vicente Rangel, vice president of Venezuela, announced that the United States is plotting the assassination of President Hugo Chávez and that his life is in grave danger. He expressed his
conviction that the Venezuelan people would confront any act of aggression by imperialism, and will continue to demand the extradition of Posada Carriles for the Barbados crime.
