Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The "strange" case of five Cuban

Over the years, the terrorist attacks against Cuba have produced more than two thousand dead, an unknown number of maimed for life and considerable material damage. Confess responsible for the attacks, people like Bosch and Posada Carriles, who operate from the territory of the United States, based in Miami, the historic capital of emigration anti-Castro.

Victims Cuban citizens, as the entire women's fencing team, perished in the attack on a Cubana de Aviacción in 1976, together with the crew and other passengers, but also foreigners, such as Italian Fabio Di Celmo, killed by a bomb exploded in the hotel bar where he was, in 1996. To prevent these terrorist operations, the Cuban government has infiltrated the organizations that put in place, obtaining important information that allowed, among other things, to prevent further massacres.

In 1998, brokered by the Colombian writer García Márquez, President Clinton agreed to a meeting in Havana attended by representatives from the State Department and the FBI. On that occasion, the Cuban government presented evidence of terrorist activities carried out from U.S. territory.

But a few months later, instead of putting an end to terrorist activities, the FBI arrested the five Cuban agents in Miami. It was September 1998. In December 2001, were sentenced to heavy prison sentences. Today they are still in prison, after more than twelve years. For what crime? Aggravated espionage, for collecting information about the activities of these anti-Castro groups, thus endangering the national security of the United States.

Murder, for one of five, for having, allegedly, contributed to the killing of an aircraft of any of these organizations, which flew over Cuba without a permit, despite repeated warnings from the Cuban authorities. It was obviously a trial and convictions of purely political. The five heroes or patriots, known in this way in Cuba and around the world have acted to prevent terrorism, and are in jail for over twelve years in the country that has declared war on terrorism.

Paradoxes of law and international politics. The Nobel Peace Prize Obama, unfortunately, has so far deviated from the line of his predecessors, remains hostage to a political doctrine that sees the existence of Cuba as a threat to "national security" of the United States. It would be a markedly different approach necessary.

And thanks to the five agents could be a significant signal. We will speak Tuesday, April 5 at 9.30, the Hall of Mercy House of Deputies, with Gianni Mina, Leoluca Orlando, Luciano Vasapollo, professor of criminal procedure and the young director Vittorio Fanchiotti Alberto Dandolo, author of a film about the wives of the Five.

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