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Reflections of Fidel
Justice in the United States
(Taken from
CubaDebate)
IF I
was to affirm that chaos reigns in the United States
they would say that I am exaggerating, that that
country is a democracy where justice exists, as does
respect for human rights and the division of powers,
constructed on the principles of Montesquieu and the
Philadelphia Declaration.
Of course, I am not referring to Cheney’s heated
defense of the right to torture or the speech given
by Bush in Toronto while hundreds of demonstrators
demanded his trial as a war criminal.
But if they open the volume of news items they will
be shocked. Various agencies have the story: “A
judge has awarded more than $1 billion in damages
against the Cuban government for the 1959 suicide of
the father of a Cuban-American man who was involved
in the CIA-backed capture and killing of
revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.
“Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Peter Adrien said he
wanted to send a signal to Cuba's government.”
“The award came in a lawsuit filed by Villoldo, who
blamed Guevara, Fidel Castro and others for his
father's 1959 suicide in Cuba. The family fled to
the U.S. and Villoldo later took part in the CIA's
Bay of Pigs invasion and was involved in catching
Guevara in Bolivia.”
“Villoldo's father took his life by a sleeping pill
overdose in February 1959, shortly after Fidel
Castro, Guevara and the other communist
revolutionaries seized power in Cuba. The elder
Villoldo was a prominent Cuban businessman who also
held U.S. citizenship and owned a major General
Motors distributorship, a 33,000-acre ranch and
several other holdings and properties.
“The younger Villoldo joined the U.S. military and
CIA, taking part in the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs
invasion. A few years later, Villoldo was among a
group hunting for Guevara, finally catching up with
him in Bolivia in 1967. Guevara was subsequently
executed and buried in Bolivia.”
Another cable notes: “The award is the largest
granted to date against the Cuban government after
one of $253 million granted to the offspring of
Cuban Rafael del Pino Siero, who died in prison
after disassociating himself from the Castro
regime,” and does not add anything further on the
traitor sentenced to imprisonment for selling the
secrets of the Granma [yacht] for $35,000,
equivalent to close to one million dollars now, and
placing 82 expeditionaries at risk.
“Another award of $187 million was granted to the
families of three pilots from the exile group
Brothers to the Rescue, downed in international
waters by Cuban aircraft in 1996.” That incident
involved veritable pirates who utilized military-use
light aircraft acquired after the war in Vietnam to
violate our airspace and fly low over the capital of
the country.
Just three days ago it was reported that the mayor
of New York, under pressure from Dan Burton and
other anti-Cuban legislators, ordered the removal
from Central Park of the bronze statue of Che – by
German Christian Jankowski – part of a temporary
exhibition called “Living Sculptures,” which
includes the figure of the man whose assassination
was ordered by a government of that country. That is
the justice that reigns in the United States!
Fidel Castro Ruz
May 30, 2009
4:15
p.m.
Translated by Granma International
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