[NYTr] December: A Month with a Long History of anti-Cuba Terrorism

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December: A Month with a Long History of Terrorist Activities 

By Roberto Perez Betancourt
AIN Special Service

The history of terrorism committed against Cuba in the month of 
December, since the 1959 triumph of the revolution, shows that 
criminals backed by successive US administrations and the CIA do not 
choose to rest during this month full of festivities and relaxation. 
The Press Information Center released a new report listing the more 
than 80 terrorist attempts committed during the last month of the year 
that run from cold blooded assassinations to sabotages of all types.

The methods are different: underground infiltrations of mercenaries 
with plans to sabotage and assassinate, placing bombs (among the 
favourites), fires, kidnappings, shootings, maritime piracy, and armed 
assaults, among others. The perpetrators are part of anti-Cuban 
organizations directly trained and financed by the CIA or other 
entities that serve to veil actions ordered by the US government. It is 
amazing that ten successive US administrations have used hundreds of 
millions of US taxpayers' dollars to pay for Washington?s dirty war 
against Cuba, maintain survile mercenaries and blackmail, all to no 
avail. Although loss of human lives and material losses provoked by 
such crimes are tragic and costly.

The list of terrorist actions against the island during the month of 
December is long.  Just to mention a few during the 1990s shows that 
terrorism against Cuba actively continues by assassins living 
unbothered in southern Florida under the protection of the White House. 
A good example is Luis Posada Carriles, characterized as a dangerous 
terrorist by the Bush administration itself, which, far from 
extraditing him to Venezuela to face charges in compliance of 
international treaties, protect the terrorist called the Bin Laden of 
Latin America. Here are some more examples of terrorism against Cuba in 
December.  On December 26, 1990 an agricultural AN 2 plane was hyjacked 
in eastern Las Tunas and taken to the illegally occupied US Naval Base 
in Guantanamo. The cost of this act was 7,320 pesos.  On December 28, 
1993 two planes belonging to HAR organization violated Cuban airspace. 
Three terrorists from Miami infiltrated the area of Matanzas province 
on December 29, 1991.  Weapons and other war materials were 
confiscated.  According to reports, these terrorist had received 
training in a camp located on 168th Street in Miami where some 60 other 
people also received training.

On December 21, 1977, the Omega 7 organization carried out four 
sabotage actions with bombs in Miami and New Jersey, aimed at hurting 
Cuban emigrants and damaging travel agencies that did business with the 
island.  On December 23, 1962, terrorists assassinated a farmer and 
wounded his brother in the eastern province of Sancti Spiritus and also 
set fire to a local store. Still in the memory of the Cuban people is 
the sabotage in the La Epoca department store in downtown Havana on 
December 31, 1960. A fire was set by the terrorist organization 
Movimiento 30 de Noviembre and raged for 22 hours, injuring 34 people 
and causing material damages estimated at more than 10 million pesos. 
This is only a few examples of the blood and grief caused by a group of 
crazy people and organizations that do not rest in their obsession to 
destroy the sovereignty of the Cuban people, who will soon celebrate 
the 49th anniversary of their definitive independence.