• A recent investigation has revealed that,
between 1959 and 1998, Miami’s Cuban-American
terrorists planned to blow up Cuban planes on 14
different occasions, according to Dr. José Luis
Méndez, author of several books on anti-Cuba
terrorism.
In an interview commemorating the 33rd
anniversary of the sabotage of a Cuban passenger
airliner over Barbados (which occurred on October 6,
1976 and caused the deaths of 73 people), Méndez
emphasized that the perpetrators remain unpunished.
"The U.S. authorities know that international
terrorist Orlando Bosch Avila and his organization (of
which Luis Posada Carriles is a member) hatched the
plot to blow up this plane," he stated.
"This is not only backed up by investigations
undertaken in Cuba: U.S. Associate Attorney General
Joe D. Whitley, who analyzed hundreds of public
documents and secret CIA and FBI files, concluded
that CORU was responsible for the attack and the top
leader of this terrorist group is Bosch."
"That attorney general recommended that asylum be
denied to the terrorist on the grounds that it would
constitute a threat to the national security of the
United States and what happened?" asked Méndez,
adding: "George W.H. Bush, who was his chief at the
CIA, proceeded to give refuge to Bosch when he was
the U.S. president. Just like Posada Carriles, Bosch
is at liberty in Miami. These are the double
standards of the U.S. authorities when it comes to
their terrorists."
You have spent many years investigating this
subject. Was the sabotage of the Cubana Aviation
plane on October 6, 1976 the only act planned?
A recent investigation reveals, with no doubt
whatsoever, that from 1959 to 1998, anti-Cuban
terrorists hatched 14 plots of this kind.
Fortunately, the Barbados act was one of the few
that they succeeded in carrying out, but there were
a lot of threats and they almost succeeded in Panama
and Jamaica. I should add that they were responsible
for the deaths of 100 people and 89 were injured as
a result of these criminal plans. It was not just
planes that were affected but airports, tourist and
travel agencies, freight companies, airlines, in
total there were 118 terror attacks in the period
that I mentioned.
Cuba has been the most affected country. And the
United States?
Yes, properties, Cuban citizens and firms have
been affected, but also citizens and organizations
from another 14 countries as well. In second place,
the United States has been the victim of attacks by
these terrorists, who are tolerated and protected;
this internal enemy who inhabits its cities, who
champions extreme violence in order to achieve its
objectives of overthrowing the Revolution. As you
know, terrorism on the part of anti-Cuban
organizations is a domestic issue in the United
States that remains unresolved: it has the enemy
within.
Why, in your opinion, is the U.S. public ignoring
this reality?
If current generations of U.S. citizens do not
know these facts, it is because they are manipulated
and the reality is concealed from them. They have a
wall of silence in front of them. They have no idea
that, of the 118 terror attacks perpetrated by
terrorists of Cuban origin on civil aviation
organizations and other firms, 35 were on U.S.
properties, some 30% of the total. Some 78 attacks –
66% of the total - occurred on U.S. territory, in
different cities. This demonstrates the extent to
which these criminals have threatened the national
security of the United States.
Is there any hope that Bosch and Posada Carriles
will be tried for all the crimes committed?
We have to fight so that these criminals settle
their accounts with the justice of the peoples and
prevent, once and for all, anti-Cuban terrorist
organizations from relying on the protective shield
of the U.S. authorities, so that terrorism is no
longer a threat to any country. People need to know
the reality so that the truth opens up the way. •
