Noriega and
Posada: a photo is worth a thousand words
BY
JEAN-GUY ALLARD
THE government of the United States does not know
if the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is in the
country, affirmed Roger Noriega, assistant secretary
of state for Latin America on Tuesday, according to
the Spanish agency EFE.
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The "historic"
photo taken by Edgar Becerra in the Department
of State protocol suite in Washington, May 2,
2004. In their usual order: Angel Garrido, the
privileged beneficiary of USAID and manager of
the mercenaries; terrorists Luis Posada Zúñiga
Rey; Horacio García, Ricardo Mayo and
Feliciano Foyo, all directed linked to Luis
Posada Carriles. |
"We are not interested in offering asylum to
somebody who is guilty of criminal acts but we are
going to deal with this in a private, serious and
transparent way," he stated.
Clearly, Washington has grasped that one cannot
play with public opinion to such an extent. But it
is also paradoxical and cynical to admit that Posada
Carriles is a criminal and want to deal with him in
private.
No less contradictory is the choice of Noriega to
make the statement a good month after the issue was
exposed in Cuba.
On May 2, 2004 Noriega received as a friend a
person who terrorist Luis Posada Carriles publicly
described as the funder of his terrorist activities:
Feliciano Foyo, ex-chief of the paramilitary
committee of the Cuban-American National Foundation
(CANF). A photo taken by Edgar Becerra in the
protocol suite of the State Department and published
on the Cuban Liberty Council website confirms that
fact.
Moreover, the photo includes other criminal
elements of the Miami mafia fauna who, like Foyo,
not only actively participated in the campaign for
the release of the killer pediatrician Orlando Bosch,
but publicly supported the campaign for Posada’s
release when he was imprisoned in Panama.
Various of them were members of the paramilitary
committee of the CANF, and organization that
directed and economically supported many acts of
terrorism against Cuba.
Another three of Posada’s co-conspirators were at
the activity but do not appear in the photo: Alberto
M. Hernández, Elpidio Núñez and Ignacio Sánchez.
Zúñiga, who has always been an active CIA
operative, belonged to the CANF paramilitary
committee in the 90s, being responsible for its
terrorist activities. He recruited Cubans who
traveled to the United States to engage in sabotage
activities.
Hernández was also a member of the CANF Security
Committee. In the first week of August 2000, he put
forward international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles
for masterminding the assassination of President
Fidel Castro at the Ibero-American Summit, which
attempt failed.
García is a Miami millionaire and the owner of
McDonald’s restaurants and linked to the smuggling
of art works. He has funded terrorist operations and
took part in the trafficking of counterfeit dollars
to Cuba.
Posada Carriles informed The New York Times
in 1998 that it was Foyo who procured tens of
thousands of dollars for his anti-Cuba "operations."
Núñez is said to be a partner of Orlando Bosch
and Posada. Like Sánchez, Ricardo Mayo is related to
the terrorist Bacardí, while Garrido specializes in
managing the funds of various "dissidents." And with
such friends, all Luis Posada Carriles’ partners,
does Noriega really not know the whereabouts of the
most dangerous terrorist on the continent?
