Killings and Assaults
1960 – 2000

 The CIA blew up the French ship La Coubre on March 4, 1960 in Havana Harbor. 101 people died.

On August 24, 1962 Jose Basulto, later of the Brothers to the Rescue, shot a 22 mm cannon at a beach hotel frequented by Fidel Castro.

On Dec. 23, 1963, a CIA commando unit sunk a Cuban torpedo boast off the Isle of Pines.

The Novo Brothers, later on, members of CORU,, fired a bazooka in 1964 at the U.N. headquarters while Che Guevera was speaking.

Ignacio Novo fired a bazooka toward the Cuba pavilion at the 1967 Montreal World’s Fair.

In l968 Orlando Bosch led a bazooka attack on the Polish ship Polanika, docked in Miami.

Released early from jail, he went on to form CORU, That group took responsibility for assassinating Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean diplomat, and Ronnie Moffit on September 21 l976 on the streets of Washington, D.C.

Under the leadership of Bosch, CORU in 1968 undertook well over sixty bombings of offices and persons connected to Cuba throughout the world. His agent Posada is said to have taken part in 50 of the bombings.

In 1975, Luciano Nieves was murdered for defending co-existence with Cuba

In 1976 Emilio Milan, News Director of WWQBA, Miami, had his legs blown off for condemning exile community violence.

The Restaurant Centro Vasco was bombed in 1976 to prevent the Cuban singer Rosita Fornes from singing there.

On October 6, 1976 Bosch and Luis Possada Carriles hired mercenaries to bomb a Cubana airplane leaving Barbadoes. 73 people died.

Bosch’s OMEGA-7 killed Carlos Muniz Varela on April 28, 1979 in Puerto Rico. He owned a travel agency and supported the Cuban revolution.

Pedro Remon, from Miami, killed Eulalio Negrin, in New Jersey on November 25 1979, because of his participation in talks with the Cuban government,

On Sept 11, 1980, Pedro Remon killed Cuban diplomat Felix Garcia at the United Nations.

Between 1973 and 1976, when he was arrested in Venezuela, the Bosch terrorist organization Acion Cubana unleashed multiple bombings in South Ameica and Europe in the service of the Pinochet dictatorship of Chile and Somoza of Nicaragua. Led by Bosch from his Venezuelan jail, CORU undertook four bombings in the United States in 1977, and during 1978 and 1979 Miami based Omega-7 – also connected to Bosch - carried out 17 bombings in the United States and Puerto Rico.

Rodopho Fromete, of Alpha 66, in 1981 poisoned cattle and set fires in Cuba, for which he spent 10 years in a Cuban jail.

U.S. officials arrested Fromete in 1994, because his boat, bound for Cuba, was full of guns and ammunition. There were no charges.

In June that year he purchased anti-tank rockets and rocket launchers from an undercover FBI agent and was sentenced to 41 months in jail.

On February 24, 1996, Cuban jets shot down two small planes flown by the Brothers to the Rescue. Four pilots were killed. According to the Cuban government, Brothers to the Rescue planes had been flying over Cuba over many years.

In 1997 Havana experienced a wave of hotel bombings, with one tourist death, attributed to mercenaries hired by Luis Posada Carriles, formerly of CORU, then based in El Salvador.

In August, 1999 Fromete announced that his F-4 Commandos had destroyed 2 buses in Cuba, 4 train passenger cars, two taxis. In June 2001 he reported that the group had burned taxis and a bus terminal.

In 1997, the U.S. Coast Guard arrested four men in a large yacht heading for Venezuela. One of them blurted out that their purpose was to assassinate Fidel Castro who was attending a conference in Venezuela. Arms were found in the boat, and the men had connections to the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF). They were tried and acquitted.

Luis Posada Carriles and three Miami based accomplices were arrested in Panama in 2000. A cache of weapons was found and they were accused of plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro who was attending an international conference there.
 

For Services Rendered:

 
Along with handouts to the paramilitaries, wealthy Cuban - Americans make generous political contributions. Such money may be helpful in facilitating an understanding on the part of politicians of the reasons why the Florida Cubans deserve to be in charge of U.S. relations with Cuba.

According to Americans for Humanitarian Trade with Cuba, Cuban – American business owners from 1999 to 2000 sent 1.8 million dollars to both political parties by way of the Cuban American National Foundation. (See the accompanying Granma cartoon: FNCA in Spanish stands for CANF.) The brothers Alphonso and Jose Fanjul were the champions, providing 1.34 million of the total amount. The Fanjul family once owned 150,000 acres of sugar fields in pre-revolutionary Cuba, and it now controls 40% of Florida’s sugar production.
 

September 11 (1980) in Miami History

On that date, on a New York street, Pedro Remón,a member of Omega 7, murdered Félix García Rodríguez, a Cuban diplomatic at the United Nations. Garcia was driving along Queens Boulevard when he stopped at the lights at the corner of 55th Street. A car pulled up alongside, and he was shot with a MAC 10 machine gun.

No other U.N. diplomat had ever been assassinated before. Pedro Remón was never punished for that crime and has continued his terrorist career. Accused of plotting to kill Fidel Castro, he is currently detained in Panama with Luis Posada Carriles, and could soon be returning, unpunished, home to Florida.

Looking the Other Way

 
July 2, 1992: The U.S. Coast Guard rescues armed men in a disabled boat off the coast of Cuba. The FBI questions and releases them.

October 7, 1992: A small unit attacks a hotel in Veradero, Cuba. The men are picked up on their return to U.S. waters, questioned, and then released.

In January, 1993 Five people heading for Cuba with machine guns are arrested by the Coast Guard. The FBI questions and releases them.

April 2, 1993: A Cypriot tanker off the Cuban coast receives shots from a boat out of Miami. The attackers are released.

May 21, 1993: The U.S. Customs Service picks up nine Floridians on their way to Cuba with machine guns and explosives. They are detained, then released.

March 11, 1994: An Alpha 66 squad shoots at a hotel in Cayo Coco, Cuba. On their return to Miami they are allowed to hold a press conference.

October 6, 1994: Alpha 66 shoots at the same hotel and then returns to Miami without any interference.

May 20, 1995: Alpha 66 does it again. The FBI is silent.

July 12, 1995: The FBI arrests, questions, and releases three men who, on their return from an operation in Cuba, were found with weapons and explosives.

January 23, 1996: Five armed men planning to enter Cuba are detained and then released.