This type of weapons will be used by the Castroit regime against the Cuban people and political dissidents, to shoot them as the Chinese did in Tiananmen Square in 1989, and Obama is rushing to establish good relation with a rogue regime.So what? Do you think Cuba is going to invade somewhere?
The Castroit regime is in the list of nations that harbors and support international terrorism. The regime arrests, tortures, and murders those Cubans who pacifically dare to confront it. Basically all the Communist regimes arrested, tortured and murdered tens of millions of innocent men, women, and children and it was all for nothing. Practically all ended up in the trash heap of history, condemned for their countless crimes against humanity.
Obama said he wants to take the Castroit regime off terrorism sponsor list. The Obama administration is going to give that too unilaterally, without asking for anything in returned. It is obvious will be done for political reason, not based in what in reality is happening.Is Cuba Smuggling Weapons for FARC Terrorists?
Capitol Hill Cubans: Is Cuba Smuggling Weapons for FARC Terrorists?
at 8:19 PM Sunday, April 5, 2015
There is a deafening silence surrounding the recent capture by the Colombian authorities of a Chinese-flagged ship, the Da Dan Xia, which was seemingly headed for Cuba with a weapons cache hidden as "grain products."
Neither the Santos Administration, the Obama Administration, nor the Castro dictatorship want to talk about it -- or answer any questions.
Such secrecy raises serious questions about the real purpose of the illegal weapons shipment and the lack of transparency of the Santos Administration (as it conducts negotiations with the FARC), the Obama Administration (as it seeks to remove Cuba from the state-sponsors of terrorism list) and the Castro dictatorship (sitting pretty amid no consequences).
Here are the facts:
- On February 28, 2015, the Da Dan Xia was intercepted in the Port of Cartagena carrying an unregistered shipment composed of 100 tons of gunpowder, 2.6 million detonators, 99 missile heads and around 3,000 artillery shells.
- The ship's documentation sought to disguise the arms shipment as "grain products."
- After stopping in Cartagena the vessel was bound for another Colombian port, Barranquilla, and then to Havana, Cuba.
- The supplier was listed as Norico, a Chinese manufacturer of machinery and chemical products, as well high-tech defense products. The arms were purportedly destined for TecnoImport in Cuba, the shadowy procurement branch of the Cuban military ("MINFAR").
Now here are the unanswered questions:
Upon the weapons shipment being discovered, theChinese government stated that the transaction was part of "completely normal military trade co-operation."
That's right. An arms shipment between China and Cuba would have been legal, if conducted with transparency. Instead, the parties chose to illegally conceal the weapons shipment.
-- Why did the parties go to such lengths to conceal a shipment that could have otherwise been legal?
-- Was it concealed because the real recipient was an illegal entity in Colombia, i.e, FARC terrorists?
-- Is the composition of the shipment more tailored for use by non-conventional forces (such as the FARC) than for a conventional military forces (such as Cuba's MINFAR)?
If so, this would be further incontrovertible evidence of Cuba's support for international terrorism. Thus, the silence.
As the Obama Administration zealously seeks to remove Cuba from the state-sponsors of terrorism list, it shouldn't leave such questions unanswered -- for it will only embolden Castro's regime to continue its rogue activities.
Let's not forget, this was the second illicit weapons shipment intercepted in the last eighteen months in which the Cuban regime was directly involved. Last year, Cuba was found in direct violation of international sanctions for attempting to smuggle 240 tons of weapons to North Korea hidden as "sugar."
Moreover, the Obama Administration should not ignore inconvenient facts in pursuit of its policy ends.
Last month, we also learned that Spain had (again) recently requested the extradition of two Basque terrorists ("ETA") -- to no avail. Ironically, these two Basque terrorists are also wanted for their illegal activities with the FARC.
If the Spanish government hadn't unwittingly made this revelation, it would have been swept under the rug.
To continue turning a blind-eye -- in order to fulfill (at all costs) Obama's deal with Cuban dictator Raul Castro -- is short-sighted, disingenuous and dangerous.
Obama said he wants to take the Castroit regime off terrorism sponsor list. The Obama administration is going to give that too unilaterally, without asking for anything in returned. It is obvious will be done for political reason, not based in what in reality is happening.
A judge authorized the ship to depart after nearly two months on the grounds that Colombian authorities do not have the logistical capacity to unload, store or destroy the weaponry found aboard. He considered it necessary to free the ship with all the cargo to not put at risk the coastline or the communities.Colombia frees Chinese ship caught carrying weapons illegally
Colombia frees Chinese ship caught carrying weapons illegally | Reuters
BOGOTA | BY LUIS JAIME ACOSTA
April 21, 2015
(Reuters) - Colombia has authorized a Chinese ship to set sail after it was caught carrying 100 tonnes of explosives to Cuba illegally, the prosecutor's office said on Tuesday, though it CONTINUES to hold the vessel's captain pending a criminal investigation.
The ship was detained on Feb. 28 after docking in the coastal city of Cartagena on the Caribbean coast. Inspectors FOUND the explosives plus 2.6 million detonators, 99 projectile heads and around 3,000 canon shells on board.
The DOCUMENTATION presented by the crew said the ship, the Da Dan Xia, was carrying grains.
A Cartagena-based judge authorized the ship to depart after nearly two months because Colombian authorities do not have the logistical capacity to unload, store or destroy the weaponry found aboard, the prosecutor's office said.
"The judge considered it necessary to free the ship with all the cargo to not put at risk our coastline or the communities," Vicente Guzman, head of the prosecutor's office for the Cartagena region, told REPORTERS .
China's Foreign Ministry says the ship was transporting regular military supplies to Cubaas part of its trade and military cooperation with the communist-run island and that it had not violated any international norms.
The Da Dan Xia is operated by Cosco Shipping Co Ltd [COSCO.UL], part of the state-owned China Ocean Shipping Group Co.
The producer of the cargo, Norinco, is China's biggest arms maker. A spokesman said after the ship's detention in March that REPORTS of what the ship was carrying were "not true" and that the company sent mainly raw materials to produce bullets.
The recipient was stated as importer Tecnoimport in the Cuban capital Havana.
China is the fourth largest arms exporter in the world, ACCORDING to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Its three major customers are Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
China and Cuba have increasingly close BUSINESS ties, as well as political links because of their communist governments, but in Latin America, China is closest to oil-rich Venezuela.
A North Korean ship was detained in the Caribbean region in July 2013 near the Panama Canal, when it was FOUND to be carrying Soviet-era weapons from Cuba including two MiG-21 jet fighters, hidden under thousands of tonnes of sugar.
The United States and the United Nations blacklisted two shipping companies they said were trying to hide the arms destined for North Korea. Panama freed the ship and crew to sail BACK to Cuba after most of a $1 million fine was paid.
(Writing by Peter Murphy; Editing by David Gregorio)
The Obama administration decided to remove the Castroit regime from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. But in order to do that, it has to demonstrate that the regime has not engaged in acts of terrorism in the last six months and it has given assurance will not continuous to do that in the future. Then few days after the removal of the regime from the list, Colombia is freeing the ship with the weapons letting it continuous travel to Cuba.Lol. Groups/states are added and removed from the list of sponsors of terrorism at political whim.
The Obama administration decided to remove the Castroit regime from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. But in order to do that, it has to demonstrate that the regime has not engaged in acts of terrorism in the last six months and it has given assurance will not continuous to do that in the future. Then few days after the removal of the regime from the list, Colombia is freeing the ship with the weapons letting it continuous travel to Cuba.
If charges have been press, the smuggling of weapons for the FARC would have made Obama’s justification to remove the Castroit regime from the list of state sponsors of terrorism legally unjustified. The explanation given by the Colombia authorities get Obama off the hook.
The Castroit regime human rights violations keeps increasing. The regime keeps the repressive machinery firmly in place. Nevertheless Obama is willing to just look the way, as long as he can get the deal.Take Cuba off the State Sponsors of Terrorism List?
Take Cuba off the State Sponsors of Terrorism List?
by George Phillips
April 28, 2015
• Let us not give Castro the resources he needs to continue his regime's 56-year reign of terror on his own people, and his continued support for terrorists and terrorist states.
• To enrich and solidify that dictatorship at this time only prevents the Cuban people from being able to forge a better life through elections in a few years, now that they are finally "on the one-yard line," when the Castro brothers, now in their eighties, could simply be left to their natural, un-bankrolled, ends. In a dictatorship such as this, only the dictators benefit.
As Sonia Alvarez Campillo was leaving Catholic Mass on July 14, 2013 with fellow members of Ladies in White, her pro-democracy organization, she was assaulted by Raul Castro's agents.
These "security" agents broke Alvarez Campillo's wrist as well as her husband's ribs in their attack on her and other members of her group.
Sunday after Sunday in Cuba, the Ladies in White (Damas de Blanco) -- members of a movement started in 2003 by wives and other female relatives of jailed dissidents in Cuba -- have peacefully demonstrated for freedom and human rights in cities across Cuba. They have continually been harassed, beaten, and imprisoned in Raul Castro's Cuba.
In an attack just two months ago, Lady in White member Digna Rodriquez Ibañez was pelted with tar by agents of the regime.
The Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation -- an organization of Cuban dissidents that the Castro regime claims is illegal -- reported that in 2014 alone, 1,810 members of the Ladies in White were detained. The detentions of these extraordinary women are among the total of 8,899 detentions evidently designed to crush political dissent. That figure represents a 27% rise from the previous year.
Oswaldo Paya and Harold Cepero were leaders of the Christian Liberation Movement, a political party opposed to Castro's Communist Party.
In July of 2012, Cuban state security agents allegedly murdered Paya and Cepero by ramming into their car and running them off the road, where they crashed and died.
The Cuban government officially claims the crash was an accident. But, as documented in the U.S. State Department's Human Rights Report for 2013, when David Gonzalez Peres, another leader of the Christian Liberation Movement, was arrested, Cuban officials at the jail warned him about what happened to Paya.
Paya and Cepero were most likely murdered for trying to change a system in which all 612 candidates in a recent Cuban election were members of the Communist Party and ran unopposed, and in which all other candidates had been rejected by the regime.
Left: Panama Canal inspectors discovered an illegal arms shipmen being smuggled on a ship from Cuba to North Korea, hidden under thousands of tons of sugar, in July 2013. Right: Cuban dissident Digna Rodriquez Ibañez was pelted with tar by agents of the regime, in February 2015.
Cuba is still a brutal place, with Raul Castro -- who replaced his brother, Fidel, in 2006 -- as a dictator doing everything he can to hold onto power.
The White House has announced that President Obama plans to take Cuba off the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism. Congress has 45 days to review and reverse this decision.
Of tremendous concern is Cuba's relationship with Iran -- the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. The State Department's most recently available State Sponsors of Terrorism Overview for 2013 detailed Iran's vast support for terrorist activities -- including: funding Assad's brutal regime in Syria, where (by that point) 100,000 civilians had died in the ongoing civil war; supporting innumerable terrorists groups that continually attack Israel; supporting rebels trying to overthrow governments in Yemen (now done) and Bahrain; and increasing its presence in Africa.
Both Iran and Hezbollah, one of its prime terrorist proxies, were shockingly left off last month's annual terrorism threat assessment report to Congress from James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence.
Iran-Cuba relations are strong, including an annual Iran-Cuba economic summit. In 2008, former Iranian President Ahmadinejad approved 500 million euros for the Cuban regime and Cuba is training Iranian scientists and sending scientists and researchers to Iran.
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The Castroit regime human rights violations keeps increasing. The regime keeps the repressive machinery firmly in place. Nevertheless Obama is willing to just look the way, as long as he can get the deal.
You live in a country that has more military might than most countries combined and you're going to whine about some tiny nation (that has been attacked before) defending itself. Please keep up the propaganda.The Obama administration want to remove the Castroit regime from the list of states sponsors of terrorism, and the regime is paying back in kind. The regime will have more flexibility to get shipments of all types of war material like gunpowder, guns, shells, detonators, MIGs, missiles among others.
During the month of April, 2015, 552 arbitrary detentions were made and 337 of these serious violations were directed against women, most of them members of the “Ladies in White”, a peaceful dissident group which has suffered an increase of repressive acts against its membership since Obama announced his intention to reestablish diplomatic relations with the Castroit regime.There are lots of countries that abuse their own populations, and use terrorism to advance their interests that are not on the list.
During the month of April, 2015, 552 arbitrary detentions were made and 337 of these serious violations were directed against women, most of them members of the “Ladies in White”, a peaceful dissident group which has suffered an increase of repressive acts against its membership since Obama announced his intention to reestablish diplomatic relations with the Castroit regime.
Since 1977, after the Carter Administration took office and decided to normalize relations with the Castroit regime, the U.S. embassy building in Cuba has housed the U.S. Interest Section in Havana and the diplomats returned to it, and Cuba has and Interest Section in Washington staffed by its diplomats. Since 1977 diplomatic relations have been restored between the two countries. These sections have been functioning as de facto embassies. Do you have something personal against Saudi Arabia? Do you have any idea of the Castroit tyrannical regime human rights record?Nobody believes that Cuba is a model country, but improvements have been made. We have diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia, have you noticed their human rights record. Do you have a link for this? And do you have something personal in this issue?
Since 1977, after the Carter Administration took office and decided to normalize relations with the Castroit regime, the U.S. embassy building in Cuba has housed the U.S. Interest Section in Havana and the diplomats returned to it, and Cuba has and Interest Section in Washington staffed by its diplomats. Since 1977 diplomatic relations have been restored between the two countries. These sections have been functioning as de facto embassies. Do you have something personal against Saudi Arabia? Do you have any idea of the Castroit tyrannical regime human rights record?
Here is the link: Monthly Report on Human Rights Violations in Cuba (April, 2015)
Monthly Report on Human Rights Violations in Cuba (April, 2015) | Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos
Of course, human rights violation is a personal issue for me.
Montecresto responds to articles critical of the Castroit regime with regard to be remove from the list of countries sponsors of terrorism:
1. Right, an arbitrary list that includes some it shouldn't, and lacks some it should.
2. Obama has good company. This is what we want.
Americans Are Ready to End the Cuban Embargo
Even Cuban Americans now support normalizing relations with the nation 90 miles off
Florida's coast.
3. Lol. Groups/states are added and removed from the list of sponsors of terrorism at political whim.
4. In my opinion, Obama has never been on the hook with this..........and, most Americans, myself included want Cuba open. I'll be booking my flight to Cuba as soon as possible. Oh, and **** all that fear mongering, with Americas history of using terrorism, regime change, hegemony, imperialism, exploitation, etc., we needn't concern ourselves with trivial Cuban self interests.
5. There are lots of countries that abuse their own populations, and use terrorism to advance their interests that are not on the list.
6. You live in a country that has more military might than most countries combined and you're going to whine about some tiny nation (that has been attacked before) defending itself. Please keep up the propaganda.
Do you have a personal interest with regard to the Castroit regime? Are you a CUI (Castro-Usefully Idiot) who doesn’t see the reality of what the Castroit tyrannical regime has done to the Cuban people, but only the images projected by the propaganda machine of the regime?
About Montecresto; Gender: Undisclosed; Political Leaning: Undisclosed; Location: Undisclosed; Profession: Undisclosed.
Montecresto in 22 months has posted 18,000 times, equivalent to 27 post per day. This is a full time job. Are you an agent working undercover?
Castro established a totalitarian regime in Cuba which had been driven by a malicious hostility towards the U.S. He created a system that was intentionally the very opposite of what the U.S. stand for. The Castroit regime has no intention of changing its position, no concessions. It would be the regime way or no way. Since Eisenhower to the present all U.S. presidents had tried to improved relation with the Castroit regime with very limited success. Raul Castro had said that he won’t consider normalizing ties until the U.S. shuts down Guantanamo Bay, ends the trade embargo, ceases pro-democracy radio and television broadcasts into Cuba and compensates the regime for "human and economic damages." Of course all of those in exchange for nothing. All gain and no concessions.Lol. That's too cool dude, you actually went through the trouble to assemble all that here and do that math. I'll give you some credit for that.
Would you care to explain why the issue of the U.S. And Cuba normalizing relations is personal to you?
What do you think of a plurality of Americans now supporting Obama's new Cuban policy?
Do you realize that there are people at DP with more posts in the same length of time as me, and do you think they too are agents or spy's?
Yes, I have something against Saudi Arabia. They too have dismal human rights records, and, wealthy Saudi Arabians financed the 9/11 attacks on my country, and 15 of the 19 attackers were Saudi Arabian.
Castro established a totalitarian regime in Cuba which had been driven by a malicious hostility towards the U.S. He created a system that was intentionally the very opposite of what the U.S. stand for. The Castroit regime has no intention of changing its position, no concessions. It would be the regime way or no way. Since Eisenhower to the present all U.S. presidents had tried to improved relation with the Castroit regime with very limited success. Raul Castro had said that he won’t consider normalizing ties until the U.S. shuts down Guantanamo Bay, ends the trade embargo, ceases pro-democracy radio and television broadcasts into Cuba and compensates the regime for "human and economic damages." Of course all of those in exchange for nothing. All gain and no concessions.
If President Obama is going to compromise U.S. principles, at least he should do it for some significant gain for the U.S., not for the sake of gratifying his lefty supporters. As an American, I believe that it is a mistake to normalize relation under those conditions.
You did not answer my question. Do you have a personal interest with regard to the Castroit regime? Do you care to explain?
Few Americans know that Fidel Castro was ready to nuke the United States, and that Khrushchev took away the nuclear missiles since he knew he would do it. Castro hatred against the United States is so deep, that he did not give a damn that such action sealed the annihilation of the Cuban people and a large part of humanity. On November 1962 the FBI arrested three Castroit agents in New York and seized a cache of explosives and incendiary devices. Their plot was to bomb Grand Central Station, Macy’s, Gimbels and Bloomingdale’s department stores in New York during the holiday shopping rush, which would had provoked a holocaust bigger that 9/11. Frightening what the regime had in storage for the American people. Many U.S. citizens would change their support of the Obama Policy with regard to the Castroit regime if they were aware of the facts.
These is not about those people, it is about you. Trying to justify your behavior ulterior motive arguing that others do it, do not diminish you responsibility.
Would you care to provide information about your gender, political leaning, geographical location and profession? Why is the reason you kept it secret?
What you call “dismal human rights records” in Saudi Arabia is basically the same in all Muslim countries. Their concept of human rights are different than in Western democracies, it is based in the Islamic religion, the Quran ideal of human rights. You cannot measure their human rights standards by comparison with the human rights set by Western democracies. The Saudi government did not attacked the U.S., those were radical Islamic Saudi citizens. As a matter of fat Saudi Arabia is combating IS terrorism.
The Castroit regime has a dismal record of human rights violation and civil liberties. How many more boats like the "13 de Marzo" tugboat, and the riverboat "XX Aniversario” the Castroit military regime has sank in the last 55 years, sending to their death many innocent children, men and women? How many massacres like the Cuban-Chinese aboard the yacht “Pretexto”? Like the icebergs, where only ten per cent of the mass is visible above the water surface, the rest below the surface isn’t.
Now that you have been made aware of the Castroit regime plans to attack the U.S., and the “dismal human rights records” of it, do you have something against the Castroit tyrannical regime?
China is constructing a canal across Nicaragua. It is necessary a second canal? It is really needed? I think that China is doing it for military and political reasons, to be able to ship all sorts of contraband, drugs and guns through it since it will be protected by the Chinese military.
The Obama administration pressure the legislative branch of the U.S. government to remove the Castro regime from the list of terror-sponsoring nations that pose a threat to the U.S. At the same time the Colombia police received a tip-off about the munitions on board of the Da Dan Xia ship, search it and found explosives and weapons bound for Cuba.
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