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| Sunday, 29 August 2004 |
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Terrorist attacks claim over 3000 lives in Cuba Havana, Aug 27 (Prensa Latina) Terrorist attacks against Cuba have caused over three thousand deaths in the last 44 years, thus the rejection aroused in the island by the pardon given in Panama to four criminals of Cuban origin. The damage list includes wounds inflicted on 2,099 persons, according to a demand presented on May 1999 to the US government for human losses which totalled 3,478 fatal victims. A leading role in these actions have had Luis Posada Carriles, Guillermo Novo, Pedro Remon and Gaspar Jimenez, the four sentenced by a Panamanian court for having attempted on the life of Cuban president Fidel Castro in Panama, 2000 during the celebration of the Iberoamerican Summit meeting. President Mireya Moscoso's decision, taken a few days before the end of her term, ratifies, as was timely denounced, the existence of selective concepts of terrorism, one "bad" and one supposedly "good" assumed by some governments. An official Cuban note indicated it was widely known that during the visit of US Secretary of State to Panama on the Centennial of the Republic, he asked the president of Panama to free the four terrorists when the trial was over. This petition comes from a government that classifies itself as leader of a pretended world crusade against terrorism. This claim may surprise a few but not in Cuba, where violence has been linked to the support of all US administrations since 1959. The war unleashed by the United States against the Cuban Revolution, conceived as a state policy is one of the elements responsible for violence and political, military, economic and other actions aimed to destroy the socialist system in Cuba. |
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