Media’s Propaganda Services for Idol Fidel Castrol Continue Five Years After His Death

[Sandokan]

Bolivia

On November 7, 1966, Guevara with four companions, entered incognito in Bolivia in flight from Brazil to the town of El Alto, and from there he went to the camp in the gorge of Ñancahuazú. His guerrilla would be integrated mostly by Cubans, most of them senior army officers of the regime. Communications was established with the Castro regime through a high powered radio, used to broad-cast and receive coded messages.

On March 23, 1967, in El Angosto (The Narrow), the guerrilla surprised a unit of the army causing numerous casualties to it. On April 10, a Bolivian army squad was ambushed by the guerrillas, which inflicts more than 20 casualties to it; on the 15th and 19th, other combats ware held and on the 26th, a bloody battle took place favorable the guerrilla.

Che divided his force and they were unable to reunite again. During May and June took place some inconsequential engagement with the Bolivian army units. On July 6, Che guerrilla attacked a small army post in the town of Samaipata. The raid was a publicity coup for Che, and confirmed the he was leading the guerrillas.

On October 8, Che’s forces were trapped in the Quebrada de Yuro, and when they fled, the Bolivian Ranger battalion killed six men and captured three, among them Che, that at the time of being taken prisoner, shouted to his captors in Bolivia, “Don’t shoot, I’m Che, I’m worth more to you alive than dead.” On October 9, the ranger received order from the high command to execute the three prisoners and they were shot. The guerrilla failed in Bolivia because lack of popular support.

 

[Nickyjo]

Fidel Castro sponsored terrorism wherever he could and allied himself with many of the worst dictators on earth. Immediately after assuming power Castro established a center for subversive operation against practically all Latin American governments. He uses violence as a method to export his revolution. The regime established contacts with guerrilla and terrorist groups, providing them with training, weapons, Cuban agents and economic aid.

No offense intended here, but you consistently rail against Castro, but have been silent about government who far outdid his brutality, like Guatemala and Argentina.

 

[Sandokan]

No offense intended here, but you consistently rail against Castro, but have been silent about government who far outdid his brutality, like Guatemala and Argentina.

You are welcome to initiate a thread about those countries and let us know about their brutality.

 

[Sandokan]

Puerto Rico - Revolutionary Armed Independence Movement (MIRA)

Filiberto Ojeda, delegate of the Movimiento Armado Puertorriqueño Auténtico to the Tricontinental conference in Havana, became Castro's key link with all of Puerto Rico's underground. After the Tricontinental, Ojeda, Rabell and Pagán, met with Castro and agreed to the foundation of the Revolutionary Armed Independence Movement (MIRA), a terrorist organization backed with arms and money by the regime.

In April 10, 1968, a nationalist squad detonated several grenades in the Condado shopping mall and in the offices of IBM Corporation, and in July MIRA commandos destroyed the Bayamón Sears store. In January 1969, Luis Ferré was swear in as Governor of Puerto Rico, and the MIRA initiated a terrorist campaign by placing bombs in banks, hotels, police stations and government installations. In March 1970, took place an attack on U.S. Marines in the Bay of San Juan, and machine-gunned the family housing buildings of the personnel of the U.S. base in Buchanan.

Around the third quarter of 1970 the terrorist organization was dismantled by a massive raid of its members. Documents of the judiciary noted how Rabell, Ojeda and Pagán instructed those who were sent to New York on how to arrange contacts with the Cuban United Nations representation, whenever weapons and explosives were needed. Ojeda was arrested by the police, who skipped bail and disappeared.

In 1974, Ojeda went back to New York and regroup the dissimilar terrorist groups into the Arm Forces for National Liberation (FALN). The FALN committed numerous bombing attacks from 1974 until November 3, 1976, in the U.S. Ojeda remain hidden at the headquarters of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations in New York until 1976, when he returns clandestinely to Puerto Rico, where he establishes an armed wing of the FALN, name Macheteros.

 

[Nickyjo]

You are welcome to initiate a thread about those countries and let us know about their brutality.

How’s this: in Argentina, when the right wing military kidnapped a pregnant woman, prior to “disappearing” her, they would wait til the baby was born, give the child to a childless military family, put the woman in a helicopter, and drop her in the Atlantic. (There’s a film about this called “The Official Story”.) In Guatemala, under a dictator whom Reagan praised, the military would destroy every man, woman, child, plant and animal in some “subversive” villages. Top that, Fidel!

 

[Sandokan]

How’s this: in Argentina, when the right wing military kidnapped a pregnant woman, prior to “disappearing” her, they would wait til the baby was born, give the child to a childless military family, put the woman in a helicopter, and drop her in the Atlantic. (There’s a film about this called “The Official Story”.) In Guatemala, under a dictator whom Reagan praised, the military would destroy every man, woman, child, plant and animal in some “subversive” villages. Top that, Fidel!

You are free to start your own thread on the subject. But here the topic is Fidel Castro.

 

[Sandokan]

Puerto Rico – Macheteros

On May 1976, Governor Hernández Colón, accused the Castro regime of sponsoring terrorist activities in Puerto Rico, by training and aiding terrorist to overthrow the government. Later on 1976, he accused Castro of being the coordinator behind the Dominican group that robbed several banks on Puerto Rico to finance terrorist activities. One of the robbers confessed that he has spent several years in Cuba being train in guerrilla tactics. The explosive material, arms, communication equipment, police uniforms and other evidence confiscated from the Dominicans, was determined that have been supplied by the Castro regime.

The Macheteros begun their activities in 1978. On August they killed a police officer in the town of Naguabo, In October, they stole ammonium nitrate in bags, dynamite, cartridges, detonators and wicks, from the regional public works warehouse in the town of Manatí. In December 1979, they ambushed a U.S. Navy bus, killing two marines and injuring nine. On January 12, 1981, they destroyed nine Air National Guard planes with bombs in the military airport in Isla Verde.

On October 30, 1983, the Macheteros fired an anti-tank rocket LAW-M-72 against the FBI offices located on the fifth floor of the federal building in San Juan, and on January 25, 1985, they launched a rocket attack on the U.S. Courthouse in San Juan. During the investigation of the Wells Fargo Bank robbery the FBI discovered “roomfuls” of weapons, which includes U.S. rocket launches and M-16 submachine guns left behind in South Vietnam, were recovered by the Viet Cong, send to Cuba and then shipped to Puerto Rico. These arms were used by the Macheteros in their attacks in Puerto Rico. Also were discovered documents about attacks with bomb and political assassinations plots. In September 1985, the FBI announced the arrest in Puerto Rico of Ojeda and 11 senior Macheteros leaders. This delivered a devastating blow to the Macheteros.

 

[Tigerace117]

Puerto Rico – Macheteros

On May 1976, Governor Hernández Colón, accused the Castro regime of sponsoring terrorist activities in Puerto Rico, by training and aiding terrorist to overthrow the government. Later on 1976, he accused Castro of being the coordinator behind the Dominican group that robbed several banks on Puerto Rico to finance terrorist activities. One of the robbers confessed that he has spent several years in Cuba being train in guerrilla tactics. The explosive material, arms, communication equipment, police uniforms and other evidence confiscated from the Dominicans, was determined that have been supplied by the Castro regime.

The Macheteros begun their activities in 1978. On August they killed a police officer in the town of Naguabo, In October, they stole ammonium nitrate in bags, dynamite, cartridges, detonators and wicks, from the regional public works warehouse in the town of Manatí. In December 1979, they ambushed a U.S. Navy bus, killing two marines and injuring nine. On January 12, 1981, they destroyed nine Air National Guard planes with bombs in the military airport in Isla Verde.

On October 30, 1983, the Macheteros fired an anti-tank rocket LAW-M-72 against the FBI offices located on the fifth floor of the federal building in San Juan, and on January 25, 1985, they launched a rocket attack on the U.S. Courthouse in San Juan. During the investigation of the Wells Fargo Bank robbery the FBI discovered “roomfuls” of weapons, which includes U.S. rocket launches and M-16 submachine guns left behind in South Vietnam, were recovered by the Viet Cong, send to Cuba and then shipped to Puerto Rico. These arms were used by the Macheteros in their attacks in Puerto Rico. Also were discovered documents about attacks with bomb and political assassinations plots. In September 1985, the FBI announced the arrest in Puerto Rico of Ojeda and 11 senior Macheteros leaders. This delivered a devastating blow to the Macheteros.

And yet he opposed apartheid when the US helped the apartheid regime arrest folks like Nelson Mandela.

That alone is enough to speak to Castro’s vision

 

[Nickyjo]

You are free to start your own thread on the subject. But here the topic is Fidel Castro.

Your attacks on everything Castro might be more effective if you occasionally touched on repression in right wing Latin American countries. It might also help if you included stuff on Cuba's history vis-a-vis the US, when it was a colony disguised as an independent country, which the US wealthy used as their whorehouse. (Check out Godfather II.) Again I quote a Cuban exile I worked with in the early 1960s, ironically named Fidel: "I hate Castro, but the US got what it deserved in Cuba."

 

[Sandokan]

El Salvador - Armed Forces of Liberation

In 1980 Handal, head of the Armed Forces of Liberation (FAL), went to the Soviet bloc on a trip arranged by Cuba and the USSR, where he would request material assistance for the guerrilla of El Salvador. Cuban military advisors trained the guerrillas of El Salvador and Guatemala in the Nicaraguan airport of Punta Huete. Many of the documents captured to the Salvadoran guerrillas in the 1980 offensives are in reality operational reports directed to Piñeiro, the head of the Cuban security apparatus. Between October 1980 and February 1981, Nicaragua was the gateway for a massive transfer of military equipment from Cuba to the Salvadoran rebels. Castro played a key role in coordinating the acquisition and delivery of arms from Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Eastern Europe through Nicaragua.

On January 10, 1981, the Salvadoran guerrilla launched a “final offensive”. The antigovernment forces could not overthrow the government due to little popular support. In the same month, the Honduran authorities discovered numerous caches full of weapons, from the arsenals that the Americans had left in Vietnam, whose destination was the Salvadoran guerrillas. Since 1981, the Castro regime has been monitoring in detail the largest operations in El Salvador, such as the destruction of the Puente Dorado in October 1981 and the sabotage at the Ilopango air base in January 1982.

At the beginning of 1982, the supply of armaments by Cuba and Nicaragua increased remarkably. The guerrilla efforts to boycott the elections also failed when 80 percent of the population eligible to vote went to the polls, showing their repudiation to the revolutionary violence. In December 1983, Farabundo Martí forces specially trained in Cuba captured the headquarters of the Fourth Brigade, in El Paraíso. In January 1984, the guerrilla underground destroyed the Cuzcatlán Bridge on the Pan-American Highway, causing a serious setback to the country's economy.

 

[Tigerace117]

El Salvador - Armed Forces of Liberation

In 1980 Handal, head of the Armed Forces of Liberation (FAL), went to the Soviet bloc on a trip arranged by Cuba and the USSR, where he would request material assistance for the guerrilla of El Salvador. Cuban military advisors trained the guerrillas of El Salvador and Guatemala in the Nicaraguan airport of Punta Huete. Many of the documents captured to the Salvadoran guerrillas in the 1980 offensives are in reality operational reports directed to Piñeiro, the head of the Cuban security apparatus. Between October 1980 and February 1981, Nicaragua was the gateway for a massive transfer of military equipment from Cuba to the Salvadoran rebels. Castro played a key role in coordinating the acquisition and delivery of arms from Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Eastern Europe through Nicaragua.

On January 10, 1981, the Salvadoran guerrilla launched a “final offensive”. The antigovernment forces could not overthrow the government due to little popular support. In the same month, the Honduran authorities discovered numerous caches full of weapons, from the arsenals that the Americans had left in Vietnam, whose destination was the Salvadoran guerrillas. Since 1981, the Castro regime has been monitoring in detail the largest operations in El Salvador, such as the destruction of the Puente Dorado in October 1981 and the sabotage at the Ilopango air base in January 1982.

At the beginning of 1982, the supply of armaments by Cuba and Nicaragua increased remarkably. The guerrilla efforts to boycott the elections also failed when 80 percent of the population eligible to vote went to the polls, showing their repudiation to the revolutionary violence. In December 1983, Farabundo Martí forces specially trained in Cuba captured the headquarters of the Fourth Brigade, in El Paraíso. In January 1984, the guerrilla underground destroyed the Cuzcatlán Bridge on the Pan-American Highway, causing a serious setback to the country's economy.

El Salvador at the time was run by a vicious military dictatorship which was so psychotic that they happily murdered clergymen such as Oscar Romero.

Funny how you left that part out.

 

[Nickyjo]

El Salvador - Armed Forces of Liberation

In 1980 Handal, head of the Armed Forces of Liberation (FAL), went to the Soviet bloc on a trip arranged by Cuba and the USSR, where he would request material assistance for the guerrilla of El Salvador. Cuban military advisors trained the guerrillas of El Salvador and Guatemala in the Nicaraguan airport of Punta Huete. Many of the documents captured to the Salvadoran guerrillas in the 1980 offensives are in reality operational reports directed to Piñeiro, the head of the Cuban security apparatus. Between October 1980 and February 1981, Nicaragua was the gateway for a massive transfer of military equipment from Cuba to the Salvadoran rebels. Castro played a key role in coordinating the acquisition and delivery of arms from Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Eastern Europe through Nicaragua.

On January 10, 1981, the Salvadoran guerrilla launched a “final offensive”. The antigovernment forces could not overthrow the government due to little popular support. In the same month, the Honduran authorities discovered numerous caches full of weapons, from the arsenals that the Americans had left in Vietnam, whose destination was the Salvadoran guerrillas. Since 1981, the Castro regime has been monitoring in detail the largest operations in El Salvador, such as the destruction of the Puente Dorado in October 1981 and the sabotage at the Ilopango air base in January 1982.

At the beginning of 1982, the supply of armaments by Cuba and Nicaragua increased remarkably. The guerrilla efforts to boycott the elections also failed when 80 percent of the population eligible to vote went to the polls, showing their repudiation to the revolutionary violence. In December 1983, Farabundo Martí forces specially trained in Cuba captured the headquarters of the Fourth Brigade, in El Paraíso. In January 1984, the guerrilla underground destroyed the Cuzcatlán Bridge on the Pan-American Highway, causing a serious setback to the country's economy.

Makes sense that a leftist government would help leftist guerillas, much as Reagan's right wing politics had him praising government by death squad.

 

[Sandokan]

El Salvador - Central American Revolutionary Workers Party

On June 19, 1985, the Central American Revolutionary Workers Party (PRTC) launched a terrorist attack on a sidewalk café in the Zona Rosa district of San Salvador, killing at least 13 people. In October 1985, the Farabundo Martí kidnapped the daughter of President Napoléon Duarte; her rescue was negotiated through the Sandinistas: the daughter of the Salvadoran president in exchange for 104 wounded guerrillas who would be sent to Havana.

The war reached a stalemate, with neither side capable of defeating the other. A regional peace accord was approved in August 1987 in Guatemala, calling for amnesty measures in each of the five Central American countries. On October 28, 1987, a general amnesty law was passed by the National Assembly, covering “politically relate crimes”.

In order to support the November 1989 offensive, Castro asked the Sandinistas to send SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles. But the mission was frustrated when the first plane that moved them had an accident when landing and fell into the hands of the Salvadoran army.

In the congressional election of March 1988, ARENA won 31 of the 60 seats in the Congress, and in the presidential election held on March 1989, Alfredo Cristiani was elected President with 53.8% of the vote. The FMLN dissatisfied with the results began a campaign of selective assassinations against political and military officials, civil officials, and upper-class private citizens. On November 11, 1989, the guerrilla initiated the ‘top offensive’ with attacks all through the city of San Salvador, which lasted until December when the arm forces took control of the situation. Armed guerrillas stormed the Sheraton Hotel and held more than 100 people hostages. Eventually the guerrillas slipped away from the hotel. Many people from both sides, including civilians, died during the offensive.

Castro saw his aspiration of a revolutionary triumph in El Salvador failed when the civil war was stabilized and in April 1990, the parties agreed to negotiate an end the conflict under United Nations mediation. The Government of El Salvador and the leftist guerrillas who have fought to overthrow it for more than a decade announced on January 1, 1992, a comprehensive plan to end their civil war. The Salvadoran Civil War, which lasted for 12 years with more than 75,000 dead, over 7,000 missing and $1.66 billion in economic losses, finally ended on January 16, 1992, with the Chapultepec Peace Accords.

In the Ibero-American summit that took place on November 2000 in Panama, Castro accused the Flores government of protecting anti-Castro activist Luis Posada Carriles in his territory. The President of El Salvador Francisco Flores, in response to the accusations of Castro said: “And that is why Mr. Castro it is absolutely intolerable that you, involved in the death of so many Salvadorans, you who trained so many people to kill Salvadorans, accuse me of being involved in the case of Luis Posada Carriles.” Castro did not answer, remained silent.

 

[Nickyjo]

El Salvador - Central American Revolutionary Workers Party

On June 19, 1985, the Central American Revolutionary Workers Party (PRTC) launched a terrorist attack on a sidewalk café in the Zona Rosa district of San Salvador, killing at least 13 people. In October 1985, the Farabundo Martí kidnapped the daughter of President Napoléon Duarte; her rescue was negotiated through the Sandinistas: the daughter of the Salvadoran president in exchange for 104 wounded guerrillas who would be sent to Havana.

The war reached a stalemate, with neither side capable of defeating the other. A regional peace accord was approved in August 1987 in Guatemala, calling for amnesty measures in each of the five Central American countries. On October 28, 1987, a general amnesty law was passed by the National Assembly, covering “politically relate crimes”.

In order to support the November 1989 offensive, Castro asked the Sandinistas to send SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles. But the mission was frustrated when the first plane that moved them had an accident when landing and fell into the hands of the Salvadoran army.

In the congressional election of March 1988, ARENA won 31 of the 60 seats in the Congress, and in the presidential election held on March 1989, Alfredo Cristiani was elected President with 53.8% of the vote. The FMLN dissatisfied with the results began a campaign of selective assassinations against political and military officials, civil officials, and upper-class private citizens. On November 11, 1989, the guerrilla initiated the ‘top offensive’ with attacks all through the city of San Salvador, which lasted until December when the arm forces took control of the situation. Armed guerrillas stormed the Sheraton Hotel and held more than 100 people hostages. Eventually the guerrillas slipped away from the hotel. Many people from both sides, including civilians, died during the offensive.

Castro saw his aspiration of a revolutionary triumph in El Salvador failed when the civil war was stabilized and in April 1990, the parties agreed to negotiate an end the conflict under United Nations mediation. The Government of El Salvador and the leftist guerrillas who have fought to overthrow it for more than a decade announced on January 1, 1992, a comprehensive plan to end their civil war. The Salvadoran Civil War, which lasted for 12 years with more than 75,000 dead, over 7,000 missing and $1.66 billion in economic losses, finally ended on January 16, 1992, with the Chapultepec Peace Accords.

In the Ibero-American summit that took place on November 2000 in Panama, Castro accused the Flores government of protecting anti-Castro activist Luis Posada Carriles in his territory. The President of El Salvador Francisco Flores, in response to the accusations of Castro said: “And that is why Mr. Castro it is absolutely intolerable that you, involved in the death of so many Salvadorans, you who trained so many people to kill Salvadorans, accuse me of being involved in the case of Luis Posada Carriles.” Castro did not answer, remained silent.

Do you have any comments on the murders by the Salvadoran government around the same time of priests, US nuns and an Archbishop in El Salvador, on conservatives in the US praising the death squad guy Roberto D'Abuisson, on the many thousands murdered, their mutilated bodies left for family to find, on the El Mozote massacre of over 800 by the military, or on the training of that military by the US? And to top it off, under Reagan 97-8% of asylum applications were denied during the 1980s. Understandable, since he praised some of the murderous regimes in the region.

The left was no doubt brutal in El Salvador at times, but what they did was small potatoes compared to what the US did and supported in Central America through the decades of the 20th century. It was the US as well who "trained so many people to kill Salvadorans."

I reviewed hundreds of asylum claims during that time. Even US officials who decided the claims said they ignored the US State Department's making light of the deaths quads.

 

[Tigerace117]

Do you have any comments on the murders by the Salvadoran government around the same time of priests, US nuns and an Archbishop in El Salvador, on conservatives in the US praising the death squad guy Roberto D'Abuisson, on the many thousands murdered, their mutilated bodies left for family to find, on the El Mozote massacre of over 800 by the military, or on the training of that military by the US? And to top it off, under Reagan 97-8% of asylum applications were denied during the 1980s. Understandable, since he praised some of the murderous regimes in the region.

The left was no doubt brutal in El Salvador at times, but what they did was small potatoes compared to what the US did and supported in Central America through the decades of the 20th century. It was the US as well who "trained so many people to kill Salvadorans."

I reviewed hundreds of asylum claims during that time. Even US officials who decided the claims said they ignored the US State Department's making light of the deaths quads.

I mean, does Sandokan EVER respond to anyone’s posts? These seems more like stream of consciousness type ranting that it does anything he’s actually interested in debating.

 

[Nickyjo]

I mean, does Sandokan EVER respond to anyone’s posts? These seems more like stream of consciousness type ranting that it does anything he’s actually interested in debating.

Indeed, there is a fixation of sins by the left in Latin America, while the record shows that US supported right-wing regimes made leftist atrocities look like extremely small potatoes by comparison.

 

[Sandokan]

Honduras - MPL-C Guerrilla 1981-1983

In January 1981, the Honduran authorities discovered numerous hiding places full of weapons, coming from stockpiles that the Americans had abandoned in Viet Nam, whose destination was the Salvadoran guerrillas.

On September 23, 1981, the Lorenzo Zelaya squadron of the MPL-C, machine-gunning the private vehicle assigned to the American advisory personnel in Tegucigalpa. In November, the Honduran authorities carried out an extensive persecution of opponents throughout the country that resulted in the capture of documents and compromising statements of many detainees that included, in addition to nationals, Nicaraguan and Uruguayan. Members of other Honduran guerrillas' groups that carried out kidnappings of aircrafts and individuals in the period from 1981 to 1982 also received a sanctuary in Cuba.

On three occasions since mid-1983, rebel groups trained in Cuba attempted to infiltrate the country. The Castro regime plan to consolidate a military uprising in Honduras between 1983 and 1984 were crushed by the security units and the army was able to contain the activity of the third wave introduced at the end of 1986.

In July 1983, an opposition group of 96 Hondurans penetrated the Olancho area to install a base of operations. These young men had finished their military training in Cuba. The Honduran army intercepted the group decimating it and capturing the rest. On September 18, the head of the guerrillas, José Reyes Mata, who had fought under the command of Che Guevara in Bolivia, fell in combat in the hills of Olancho.

Between August and September 1983 around 21 fighters surrendered to the authorities. In their depositions they detailed the way in which they traveled to Cuba to train in a school known as 'Campo P-30', specialized in tactics, communications, evasion, weapons and explosives.

 

[Nickyjo]

Honduras - MPL-C Guerrilla 1981-1983

In January 1981, the Honduran authorities discovered numerous hiding places full of weapons, coming from stockpiles that the Americans had abandoned in Viet Nam, whose destination was the Salvadoran guerrillas.

On September 23, 1981, the Lorenzo Zelaya squadron of the MPL-C, machine-gunning the private vehicle assigned to the American advisory personnel in Tegucigalpa. In November, the Honduran authorities carried out an extensive persecution of opponents throughout the country that resulted in the capture of documents and compromising statements of many detainees that included, in addition to nationals, Nicaraguan and Uruguayan. Members of other Honduran guerrillas' groups that carried out kidnappings of aircrafts and individuals in the period from 1981 to 1982 also received a sanctuary in Cuba.

On three occasions since mid-1983, rebel groups trained in Cuba attempted to infiltrate the country. The Castro regime plan to consolidate a military uprising in Honduras between 1983 and 1984 were crushed by the security units and the army was able to contain the activity of the third wave introduced at the end of 1986.

In July 1983, an opposition group of 96 Hondurans penetrated the Olancho area to install a base of operations. These young men had finished their military training in Cuba. The Honduran army intercepted the group decimating it and capturing the rest. On September 18, the head of the guerrillas, José Reyes Mata, who had fought under the command of Che Guevara in Bolivia, fell in combat in the hills of Olancho.

Between August and September 1983 around 21 fighters surrendered to the authorities. In their depositions they detailed the way in which they traveled to Cuba to train in a school known as 'Campo P-30', specialized in tactics, communications, evasion, weapons and explosives.

Why do you give Cuba so much credit for helping with the fight against murderous gangster governments in the 1980s? Why don't you attack the US for supporting such monstrous governments who ruled through death squads? Reagan praised a guy, Rios Mont in Guatemala, who was later convicted of mass murder.

 

[Sandokan]

Honduras - MPL-C Guerrilla 1984-1991

In July of 1984, a second wave group trained in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and veteran of the Nicaraguan war, was infiltrated in the province of El Paraíso. Once again, the Honduran security forces acted quickly, and the contingent was surrounded and captured in October of that year. Members of the group led Honduran authorities to several arms caches and subversive groups in the Comayagua area

In 1986, a third wave was introduced. In March, the army reported a confrontation with guerrillas in the mountains of the Sierra Nombre de Dios, and in October a new confrontation took place in La Ceiba.

On January 25, 1989, MPL-C guerrillas ambush and killed the ex-chief of the Armed Forces Álvarez Martínez. On August 15, 1990, the guerrillas assaulted a banking agency, and in the confrontation 6 guerrillas and 5 soldiers died.

Rafael Calleja, president from 1990 to 1994, applied an amnesty policy to end the armed conflict. In April 1991 the RPF guerrillas decided to abandon the armed struggle and join the political process. Castro's support for the guerrillas to take power failed.

 

[Sandokan]

Grenada - Maurice Bishop

Maurice Bishop, leader of the socialist New Jewel Movement (NJM), in March 13, 1979, seized power in a bloodless coup against the democratically elected government. He suspended the constitution, proclaimed himself Prime Minister and refused to celebrate new elections. Already in 1980, hundreds of Cubans ‘advisers’ were deployed in Grenada. In the first half of May, 1982, a delegation of senior officials of the NJM visited Cuba. The idea was to replicate Castro’s model in Grenada.

In July 1983, Maurice Bishop and Fidel Castro agreed to work in the development of 24 joint projects in different areas. The construction of an international airport in the southwest tip of the Island was initiated. The 9,000 feet length runway under construction by Cuban paramilitary forces will be able to handle the larger Soviet Union military aircrafts, facilitating the transportation of weapons and insurgents from Cuba to the guerrillas in Central America and expand its influence in the region, becoming de facto a military airbase. In December 1981 Selwyn Strachan, Minister of Mobilization, announced that “the airport would be used by Cuba to transport his forces to Africa and by the Soviets for military purposes. Liam James, chief of security of the NJM, in March 1983 wrote on his notebook, “The Revolution has been able to crush Counter-Revolution internationally, airport will be used for Cubans and Soviet military.”

On October 12, 1983, Bishop was deposed and arrest by his Deputy Prime Minister of the NJM Bernard Coard. A few days later Bishop was liberated by a large crowd of his sympathizes. He and his supporters head toward Ford Rupert, the army headquarters where he intent to talk to the nation. Before they could consolidate their support, were attack by the army and fire upon killing many people. Bishop and several of his close supporters were captured and executed.

 

[Nickyjo]

Grenada - Maurice Bishop

Maurice Bishop, leader of the socialist New Jewel Movement (NJM), in March 13, 1979, seized power in a bloodless coup against the democratically elected government. He suspended the constitution, proclaimed himself Prime Minister and refused to celebrate new elections. Already in 1980, hundreds of Cubans ‘advisers’ were deployed in Grenada. In the first half of May, 1982, a delegation of senior officials of the NJM visited Cuba. The idea was to replicate Castro’s model in Grenada.

In July 1983, Maurice Bishop and Fidel Castro agreed to work in the development of 24 joint projects in different areas. The construction of an international airport in the southwest tip of the Island was initiated. The 9,000 feet length runway under construction by Cuban paramilitary forces will be able to handle the larger Soviet Union military aircrafts, facilitating the transportation of weapons and insurgents from Cuba to the guerrillas in Central America and expand its influence in the region, becoming de facto a military airbase. In December 1981 Selwyn Strachan, Minister of Mobilization, announced that “the airport would be used by Cuba to transport his forces to Africa and by the Soviets for military purposes. Liam James, chief of security of the NJM, in March 1983 wrote on his notebook, “The Revolution has been able to crush Counter-Revolution internationally, airport will be used for Cubans and Soviet military.”

On October 12, 1983, Bishop was deposed and arrest by his Deputy Prime Minister of the NJM Bernard Coard. A few days later Bishop was liberated by a large crowd of his sympathizes. He and his supporters head toward Ford Rupert, the army headquarters where he intent to talk to the nation. Before they could consolidate their support, were attack by the army and fire upon killing many people. Bishop and several of his close supporters were captured and executed.

One correction. The larger airport had been recommended by the US to assist in tourism, and after the invasion by the US, it seems it was lengthened as planned.

 

[Sandokan]

Grenada - Organization of Eastern Caribbean States

On October 21, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), and the nations of Barbados and Jamaica, requested the United States intervention in Grenada. In October 25, the U.S. military started the attack by air-dropping troops at the new airport at Point Salines. The main objectives of the invasion were to capture the airport and rescue of the U.S. medical students at the True-Blue Campus of St. George's University.

At the time of the invasion, there were 700 Cubans paramilitary forces on the island under the command of Colonel Pedro Tortoló. Castro described them as construction workers, but in reality, they were special forces and combat engineers. He gave the order not to surrender under any circumstances. The antiaircraft batteries at the Punta Salinas airfield were in the hands of the Cuban military and opened fire on the U.S. paratroopers.

The U.S. Ranger Regiment attacked the Cuban entrenchments and after several hours of battle overrun the positions capturing more than 600 Cubans. The Rangers cleared the air strip of obstructions and transport planes were able to land. On the following days over 250 U.S. students were rescued. The Cuban weapons captured in Granada were sufficient to equip six battalions. Cuban forces sustained 25 killed, 59 wounded, and 638 combatants captured. All the Cuban forces were eventually returned to Cuba.

The events at Grenada were a failure for the Castroist regime. In November Castro received Colonel Tortoló and Cubans troop like heroes. He later blamed others for the failure. Tortoló was court-martialed, stripped of rank and sent to Angola as a private, along with most of his Grenada command, and the Interior Ministry’s foreign intelligent chief was dismissed for his intelligent failure in Grenada.

 

[Nickyjo]

Grenada - Organization of Eastern Caribbean States

On October 21, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), and the nations of Barbados and Jamaica, requested the United States intervention in Grenada. In October 25, the U.S. military started the attack by air-dropping troops at the new airport at Point Salines. The main objectives of the invasion were to capture the airport and rescue of the U.S. medical students at the True-Blue Campus of St. George's University.

At the time of the invasion, there were 700 Cubans paramilitary forces on the island under the command of Colonel Pedro Tortoló. Castro described them as construction workers, but in reality, they were special forces and combat engineers. He gave the order not to surrender under any circumstances. The antiaircraft batteries at the Punta Salinas airfield were in the hands of the Cuban military and opened fire on the U.S. paratroopers.

The U.S. Ranger Regiment attacked the Cuban entrenchments and after several hours of battle overrun the positions capturing more than 600 Cubans. The Rangers cleared the air strip of obstructions and transport planes were able to land. On the following days over 250 U.S. students were rescued. The Cuban weapons captured in Granada were sufficient to equip six battalions. Cuban forces sustained 25 killed, 59 wounded, and 638 combatants captured. All the Cuban forces were eventually returned to Cuba.

The events at Grenada were a failure for the Castroist regime. In November Castro received Colonel Tortoló and Cubans troop like heroes. He later blamed others for the failure. Tortoló was court-martialed, stripped of rank and sent to Angola as a private, along with most of his Grenada command, and the Interior Ministry’s foreign intelligent chief was dismissed for his intelligent failure in Grenada.

Give it up. Reagan was like the guy in a bar bar drowning in his sorrows cause he just got his ass kicked by his wife (Lebanon, earlier that week). Grenada unfortunately wandered into the bar and Ronnie got a foreign policy hard on and decked it. It was the glory of a country of 300 million thoroughly dominating an island of 100 thousand cause they had the gall to build a bigger airport -which the US had apparently suggested. The students weren’t in any danger. Grenada was a “rally round the flag” distraction as old as Caesar.

 

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Cuba Archive

The Castro regime shattered — through mass-executions, mass-jailing, mass larceny and exile — virtually every family on the island of Cuba. Many opponents of the Castro regime qualify as the longest-suffering political prisoners in modern history, having suffered prison camps, forced labor and torture chambers for a period three times as long in Fidel Castro’s Gulag as Alexander Solzhenitsyn suffered in Stalin’s Gulag.

According to the Cuba Archive (Cuba Archive – Helping Cubans attain their rightful freedoms, foster a culture of respect for life and the rule of law, and honor the memory of those who?ve paid the highest price.) work-in-progress report close to 8,000 documented deaths and disappearances, of which 7,325 are attributed to the Cuban state during the Castro dictatorship; 382 cases are attributed to the state under Raúl Castro, since July 2006, including 51 extrajudicial killings (reported or suspected), 120 from denial of medical care or health reasons, and 52 suicides.

Non-Combat Victims of the Castro Regime:
January 1, 1959 to December 30, 2017

Documented Cases
Firing squad executions 3,121
Extrajudicial killings not in prison 1,231
Missing and disappeared 1,046
Combat fatalities or Missing in Action 1,295
Other death (accidents, in prison, medical negligence, etc.) 1,244

 

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Since Castro assumed command in 1959 up to 1990, around 25,000 people from different continents and ideological affiliations, including 10,000 Latin Americans, received training in guerrilla warfare and terrorism in Cuba. It is estimated that another 20,000 individuals have taken political indoctrination courses.

By the late 1980s the Castro regime had provided funds, training and armaments to over 20 terrorists and guerrilla groups in Latin America. These groups with the support of the Castro regime have murdered thousands of men, women, and children. From 1980 to 1986 the Soviet Union provided the Castro regime with weapons valued around $4 billion free of charge to replace the ones given to the Latin America guerrillas. The Castroit regime remain unapologetic and continue to support international terrorism. The death and sadness caused by the regime and its agents cannot be forgotten nor forgiven.