The U.S.: A Terrorist Government That Imprisons Anti-Terrorists

Who could doubt the misconduct of an administration that, while it makes thousands of North Americans and hundreds of thousands of citizens of other countries die in the name of a supposed war against terrorism, continues giving help to Luis Posada Carriles, fugitive from Venezuelan justice, and favoring its closest partner, Santiago Alvarez?

Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power, repeated the denunciation at the close of the fourth meeting of International Justice and Law, which was concluded this Friday in the capital.

Alardon remembered that, in the course of the week, a denunciation was made by the Cuban Foreign Ministry concerning a series of violations, on the part of the diplomatic representation of the United States in Habana, of the conventions that regulate the functioning of diplomatic and consulate missions, of other norms of international law, and of North American and Cuban laws.

“By means of this diplomatic seat money was arriving to people within our country that the North American government is trying to organize to manufacture an internal opposition in the island.”

“The Republic of Cuba has summoned the United States administration to respond how it is possible that its diplomats here had channeled financial resources coming from a citizen who was serving prison time in that country for the offense of terrorism.”

Alarcón explained that the American Interests Office used these individuals so that they served as witnesses who favored Santiago Alvarez–condemned by a United States court after he occupied a big cache of weapons–and justified a reduction of the sentence that they imposed upon him.

“These events constitute eloquent proof of the reasons attending the conduct of the five Cubans fighting against terrorism, that now are serving unjust condemnations in North American prisons.

“How could Cuba stop exercising its sacred right to defense, to the saving of the lives of our citizens in the face of terrorism? These companions had to do what they did.”

In the fourth Meeting of International Justice and Law more than 400 delegates from 26 countries participated. At the same meeting in attendance were Maria Esther Reus, minister of Justice: Ruben Remigio Ferro, president of the Supreme People’s Court, and Arnel Medina, president of the International Union of Lawyers of Cuba.