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International Action Center - Oct 11, 2007


Support Cuba and the Cuban Five!

To all progressives and to supporters of the Cuban Revolution: the IAC
invites you to support two important upcoming events on Cuba . Details
on both events follow./

1. "Breaking the Silence: Canada-U.S. Solidarity Conference on the
Cuban Five" in Toronto , Canada Nov. 9-11. The IAC will be organizing
transportation to Canada . Call 212.633.6646 for more information.

2. Participate in the IV Cuba/Venezuela/North America / Mexico
Conference in Tijuana , Mexico December 7, 8 and 9.

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1. The National Network On Cuba and the Canadian Network On Cuba are
holding a joint conference on November 9-11, 2007: "Breaking the
Silence: Canada-US Solidarity Conference on the Cuban Five". The
conference will take place in Toronto, Canada.*

Special participants will include family members of the Cuban 5.This
will be a unique opportunity for people from the United States to meet
and share experiences with the families of the Five. As most of us from
the US have been unable to travel to Cuba and as the US has repeatedly
denied visa requests for the families to come to the US, we have not
had the ability to meet the families and they have not been able to
meet the many people who have worked so hard in the cause of justice
for the Five. The conference will also feature internationally known
attorneys, intellectuals, religious and civic leaders. Plans include a
public meeting, press conference, plenary, workshops, and a chance for
brainstorming on ways for the two networks to work more effectively.

2. Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/North America Labor Conference -- IV
Conferencia Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/Norte America*

December, 7,8 and 9,? Diciembre,7,8 y 9 2007

!La lucha obrera no tiene fronteras!
The workers' struggle has no borders!

U.S.-Cuba/Venezuela/International Relations
FTAA/NAFTA: the ALBA Alternative

Immigration between US/Latin America
Inmigracin entre Estados y Latinoam(c)rica

In response to the repeated denial of visas by the U.S. State
Department to tour the U.S., three Cuban leaders of the Confederation
of Cuban Workers (CTC) will visit Tijuana, Mexico, a city 15 minutes
from the San Diego US/ Mexico border. This conference will give people
from North America (the United States , Canada and Mexico ) the
opportunity to hear first hand from the Cubans about Cuba 's workers
and their unions. Also, you will hear from leaders of the Venezuelan
union, UNT, about the present situation of the Venezuelan revolution
and the issues facing Venezuelan workers, representatives of Bolivia
and Nicaragua discussing the social movements there, and the social and
labor movements in the United States .

The cost to attend is $55 per person to cover the expenses of the
conference.

En respuesta a la repetida negacion del otorgamiento de visas para
visitar a los Estados Unidos de Norte America a 3 lideres sindicales
Cubanos de la Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC), ellos visitaran
Tijuana, Mexico, una ciudad a 15 minutos de San Diego, CA. USA.la
frontera Mexico/EE.UU.. Esta conferencia le brindar! la oportunidad a
las trabajadores de Norte America de obtener informacin de primera
mano sobre la situacin de los trabajadores Cubanos y sus sindicatos y
sobre la realidad cubana actual., ustedes escuchar!n de lideres
sindicalistas Venezolanos de la UNT (Unin Nacional de Trabajadores),
acerca de la situacin actual de la Revolucion Venezolana.

Invited Panelists/Invitados (partial):

CUBA: Raymundo Navarro Fernandez, Director of Foreign Relations of the
C.T.C. of Cuba ;
Carmen Godines,Director of the Americas , Dept. of Foreign Relations of
the CTC;
Andres Luis Morejon Ballarte, Americas Depto. of ICAP
VENEZUELA: Representantes de la U.N.T. de Venezuela,
BOLIVIA: Representante Internacional de Bolivia,
NICARAGUA: Maritza del Socorro Espinales, Secretaria General de la
Federacion de Sindicatos Universitarios
MEXICO/Estados Unidos: Elvira Arellano, Emma Lozano: La Familia Latina
Unida, Chicago
MEXICO: Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME)

SPONSORS (partial):

U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange; Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME);
World Organization for the Right of the People to Healthcare, SEIU 1199
NY; National Network on Cuba (NNOC); Venezuela Solidarity Network
(VSN); International Action Center (IAC); Cuba Solidarity New York
(CSNY); Southwest Workers Union, San Antonio, Texas; C.O.M.P.A.,
Converjencia de los Movimientos de los Pueblos de Las Americas; Peace
and Freedom Party - California; Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of
NY; CUSSP, Cuba-U.S. Sustainability Project

Conference Registration/ Datos para su inscripcin a la Conferencia:

Name/Nombre:______________________________________________________

Address/Direccion:__________________________City,State, Zip/Ciudad,
Estado, Zona postal:_______________________

Phone/Telefono:__________Fax:___________ Email/Correo
Electronico:_________________________________________

Union/Organization/Sindicato:___________________________

[ ]Enclosed is my registration fee of $ 55 U.S. dollars

[ ]Envio mi registro y mi donacion de 55 dolares US y quisiera aportar
la cantidad de $_______para aquellos participantes de bajo ingreso.

[ ] I would like to give a donation of $ ________ for a low-income
participant

Mail your registration - Envelo por correo a:

US/Cuba Labor Exchange ? P.O. BOX 39188 ? Redford MI 48239 ? Phone/Fax:
[phone] ? Email: ***@aol.com

Reservations can be made at: Reservaciones de Hotel:

Hotel Palacio Azteca
Blvd Cuauhtemoc Sur #213 Colonia Davila
22400 Tijuana, Mexico
Toll Free from USA 1 888 901 3720 Toll Free From Mexico 01 8000266660
Single/Sencilla Room $86US Dollars Double/doble Room $119 US Dollars

(This will included two breakfasts and one dinner)
(Este precio incluye dos desayunos y una cena)


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Before you are tricked: read up.
The facts on the Cuban 5:

HERNANDEZ, GERARDO, a captain in the Cuban military intelligence, was also
spymaster of an extensive ring of Cuban nationals and Cuban Americans
collecting intelligence, attempting to commit espionage and disrupt Cuban
exile groups in south Florida from 1992 until 1998. On 12 September 1998 the
FBI arrested 10 people associated with the "La Red Avispa," or the Red Wasp
Network ring, including eight men and two women in their various south
Florida residences. They were accused of spying on US military installations
and anti-Castro exile groups in south Florida and transmitting this
information to Cuba. Among the military installations the group attempted to
infiltrate were the US Southern Command Headquarters in Miami, MacDill Air
Force Base near Tampa, and Boca Chica Naval Air Station in Key West. The
group's goals included documenting activities, exercises, and trends at the
installations; monitoring anti-Castro groups and disrupting their plans; and
developing positions of vantage from which to warn Cuban intelligence of
impending military strikes against Cuba. The group had been under
investigation by the FBI counterintelligence squad in Miami since 1995.

Three of the 10 arrested were identified as senior agents who communicated
directly with Cuban intelligence officials and received their instructions
from Cuba. The three senior agents were all Cuban nationals. They were
GERARDO HERNANDEZ, 31 (alias Manuel Viramontes), the spymaster; FERNANDO
GONZALEZ, 33 (alias Ruben Campa), and RAMON LABANINO, 30 (alias Luis
Medina), another Cuban intelligence officer. The remaining seven were
mid-level or junior agents who passed their reports to one of these three
senior agents. Included were ANTONIO GUERRERO, 39, who observed aircraft
landings at the Boca Chica Naval Air Station from his job as a sheet-metal
worker there; ALEJANDRO ALONSO, 39, a boat pilot; and RENE GONZALEZ, 42, a
skilled aircraft pilot and the only Cuban national among these seven. Both
joined the Democracy Movement to report on its activities devoted to
harassing the Castro government with demonstrations and threats. Two married
couples, all American citizens, also worked in the spy network: NILO and
LINDA HERNANDEZ, ages 44 and 41 respectively, and JOSEPH and AMARYLIS
SANTOS, both 39. Five defendants, Alonzo, the Hernandez's, and the Santos's,
accepted a plea bargain and cooperated with the prosecutors, providing
information about the others. The other five defendants eventually went to
trial, which lasted six months.

The US government's espionage case also became enmeshed with an incident
that happened in February 1996, in which Cuban air force jets shot down two
of three Cessna aircraft flying toward Havana. Four pilots, members of the
anti-Castro exile group, Brothers to the Rescue, were killed. Several of the
Wasp network agents had infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue, including Rene
Gonzalez, the pilot. In addition to charges related to information-gathering
and the sending of "nonpublic" information to a foreign power, Gerardo
Hernandez was charged with contributing to the deaths of the four pilots for
passing along to Cuban intelligence information about the group's planned
fly-over. Several other Cubans who were eventually indicted in the incident
fled to Cuba before they could be arrested.

The trial of the five Wasp defendants who had not entered into plea bargains
resulted in convictions on all counts on 8 June 2001. Three received life
sentences in December 2001 for conspiracy to commit espionage, although they
did not collect or compromise any classified information. Cuban nationals,
Gerardo Hernandez and Ramon Labanino, and Antonio Guerrero, an American
citizen, received life in prison. Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, also
Cuban nationals, received sentences of 19 years and 10 years, respectively,
for conspiracy and for acting as unregistered agents of a foreign power. The
five American citizens who pled guilty to one count of acting as
unregistered agents of a foreign power received lesser sentences: Alejandro
Alonso, Nilo Hernandez, and Linda Hernandez got sentences of seven years'
imprisonment, Joseph Santos received four years, and Amarylis Santos three
and a half.

HERNANDEZ, LINDA and her husband NILO HERNANDEZ, 46, were members of the
Wasp Network, a Cuban spy ring in south Florida. Linda, 43, was born in New
York but returned to Cuba where she grew up and married Nilo. In 1983 the
couple returned to the United States where he later became an American
citizen. In 1992 they were "activated" as spies and ordered to move from New
York to Miami. They were arrested on 12 September 1998 along with eight
other members of the ring. [See also Gerardo Hernandez and Alejandro
Alonso.] Linda was charged with attempting to collect information for the
Cuban Intelligence Service by infiltrating a right-wing Cuban exile group
called Alpha 66. Nilo counted aircraft at nearby Homestead Air Force Base
and reported using a shortwave radio. Although the information they passed
to Cuba was in the public domain, in a plea bargain, the pair pled guilty to
acting as unregistered agents of a foreign government. Each was sentenced to
seven years in prison in US District court in Miami on 23 February 2000.

http://www.eyespymag.com/spylistmain1.htm

12 in the spy-ring, 10 convicted ( various freed by now) one deported and
one fled.

Even the Cuban embassy in Holland admits there were 10:

" 1998
September 12: The FBI arrests a group of "Cuban spies at 5.30 A.M. they are
members of the Wasp Net; they are named: Ren? Gonz?lez, Antonio Guerrero,
Luis Medina, Rub?n Campa and Manuel Viramontes. Other names are given until
reaching 10, among them two women, but according to the statements, the main
ones, are the first mentioned. "
http://www.embacuba.nl/5heroes.htm

They did spy on military instalations.

The Miami Herald
September 14, 2001

Lawyer: Accused spy to plead guilty

BY GAIL EPSTEIN NIEVES

Accused Cuban spy Marisol Gari, half of a husband-and-wife team
arrested in
Orlando, will plead guilty to a single spying-related charge next week as
part of a plea agreement offered by federal prosecutors, her lawyer said
Thursday.

``I got the discovery in the case, I looked at it, [the plea offer]
is a
good deal, and it's what she wants to do,'' said Miami attorney Louis
Casuso.

Gari, 42, is scheduled to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to
act as
an unregistered agent for Cuba, Casuso said. She faces a maximum sentence of
five years in prison.

In turn, prosecutors will drop a second count of acting as an
unregistered
Cuban agent, Casuso said. That charge carries a maximum 10-year sentence.

Gari and her husband, George Gari, 41, were arrested last month and
accused
of being agents for the Cuban Directorate of Intelligence. The couple
allegedly belonged to Cuba's La Red Avispa, or Wasp Network, which the FBI
dismantled with 10 arrests in September 1998.

CONVICTIONS

Five high-ranking intelligence agents from the Wasp Network were
convicted
on federal spying-related charges in June, including three who were
convicted of espionage conspiracy. Those men are awaiting sentencing.
According to their indictment, the Garis reported to two of them: Ram?n
Laba?ino and Fernando Gonz?lez.

The Garis -- who used the code names Luis and Margot -- allegedly
assisted
in the ring's two primary goals: trying to infiltrate the U.S. Southern
Command headquarters in West Miami-Dade and to penetrate the inner circles
of the Cuban American National Foundation, a prominent Cuban exile group.

But Marisol Gari's lawyer said she was not as culpable as the
convicted
men.

He said the plea is scheduled for next Thursday before U.S. District
Judge
Ursula Ungaro-Benages. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Buckner could not be
reached for comment.
The Garis moved to Orlando 18 months ago after living in Miami for
about
eight years. She worked for the U.S. Postal Service for part of that time.

ACCUSATIONS

In Miami, the indictment states, Marisol Gari helped keep tabs on
security
at the CANF headquarters and helped manage another agent in his bid to get a
job at
Southcom, which oversees American military operations in the
Caribbean and
Latin America.

Gari also is accused of preparing a report for her Cuban bosses
comparing
the costs of U.S. mail service, Federal Express and other mail handlers.

Elizabeth Delgado, a lawyer who represents George Gari, did not return
phone calls seeking comment. Casuso said that George Gari has been offered
the same plea deal as his wife.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/marisol-gari.htm

Florida pair plead guilty to spying on US for Cuba
http://www.lib.sun.ac.za/army/army-talk/msg31338.html
Couple accused of reporting to two Cuban spies
http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y01/sep01/03e5.htm
Lawyer: Accused spy to plead guilty
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/marisol-gari.htm
Cuban Spies Sentenced to Prison
http://www.ciponline.org/cuba/cubainthenews/newsarticles/ap010502veig...
http://www.dss.mil/training/espionage/1997-99.htm
http://www.eyespymag.com/spylistmain1.htm

- The "Five Cuban Heroes" proclaimed by the Cuban regime were actually part
of
a network of 12 spies that infiltrated the U.S. In addition to the five
spies who maintained their innocence but were convicted in a jury trial
(with no Cuban-American jurors), five pleaded guilty to charges of spying in
exchange for reduced sentences, one was deported, and one fled to Cuba to
escape arrest. The trials cost U.S. taxpayers one million dollars to
provide the defendants with a free legal representation. An appeals court
is reviewing the five spies' conviction.

-- The Cuban regime initially denied the five men were Cuban agents; it took
almost three years, after the spies' conviction, for the regime to
acknowledge that the five spies were in fact acting under its orders -- and
that they were "heroes."

-- The regime is silent on the fact that the ringleader of the spies,
intelligence agent Gerardo Hernandez, was found guilty of being closely
involved in the Cuban air force's shoot-down of two civilian planes, over
international waters, that resulted in the deaths of four persons.

-- The object of the five's spying was not solely the anti-Castro community
in Miami, as the Cuban regime maintains. Among the U.S. military
installations of particular interest to the five spies was the Central
Command located in Tampa, which focuses on the Middle East and has no
operational responsibilities for Latin America.

[f***@fredwilliamsFFFf.ca]

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Before you are tricked: read up.

These are not facts, but propaganda. The cuban 5 have worked to
prevent terrorism and done nothing violent nor planned anything
destructive, They gathered information about terrorist attacks against
Cuba. That is all they did. It is sad that the terrorists in the
U.S.A. are also the ones making the laws.

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Regards, Fred
<http://www.fredwilliams.ca/thesecretofmoney.html>

[Rolf R]

Post by N***@blythe.org
Support Cuba and the Cuban Five!
To all progressives and to supporters of the Cuban Revolution: the IAC
invites you to support two important upcoming events on Cuba . Details
on both events follow./

Ni oír hablar mierda no come un pueblo hambriento.

A hungry nation does not live by political bullshit!



PARADOJAS


By Ralph Rewes


En sus políticas absurdas para mantenerse en el poder apoyados en un
antiamericanismo ratonero de masas incultas y mendigas que no hacen nada
por sus países sino pedirles a los grandes demagogos que le alimenten de
gratis, muchos líderes mongólicos latinoamericanos gastan los dineros
públicos en mantener parásitos improductivos y, en lugar de comprar
fábricas y alentar las empresas privadas que den empleo a los jóvenes,
compran armas inútiles en una guerra moderna.

La soldadesca entrenada con propagandas vacías, insultos a enemigos
ficticios, y emociones negativas no tiene tiempo para aprender nada útil
en esos países. Es un hijo morón de enormes proporciones de padres
igualmente idiotas.

Es más, los dineros que estos líderes ignaros, sólo superados por esas
masas más ignorantes aún que los apoyan, gastan a manos llenas como si
los dineros públicos fueran su peculio privado, sólo sirven para
alimentar las panzas de los peores capitalistas del mundo, los que
lucran con las ideas guerreristas.

Paradójicamente, los líderes de izquierda se dedican sistemáticamente a
mantener llenas las arcas de los fabricantes de armas inútiles en
guerras modernas. Y todo esto tupiendo más aún los canales de la verdad
a esas masas embriagadas de masturbaciones políticas con orgasmos de
prostitutas ideológicas.

Es una gran paradoja que las masas latinoamericanas que siempre están
pidiendo justicia, la pidan de dirigentes teatrales que si hablan es por
un milagro de equilibrio, porque si se caen en cuatro patas no se
levantarían más.

Es una paradoja que una etnia que admira la belleza en todas sus
manifestaciones, elijan líderes que son la antítesis de todo lo hermoso
que pueda tener el ser humano.



PARADOJA DE LAS REVOLUCIONES Y GUERRILLAS

Paradójicamente las revoluciones no revolucionan nada. Sólo producen
cambios violentos en las instituciones políticas, culturales y
económicas de una nación, para terminar varios pasos atrás de cuando
empezaron. Son unas vueltas en redondo y en espiral que terminan en
puntos más atrasados que cuando se empieza.

EL BUEN EJEMPLO DE LA REVOLUCIÓN CUBANA. La enseñanza en la América
Latina tiene la grandísima falla de llenarle de tierra la cabeza a los
estudiantes. Las universidades son centros más de idioteces políticas y
filosofías cavernícolas que centros de enseñanza práctica. Mucha poesía,
mucho patriotismo de levadura, lleno de aire caliente, y palabras
vacías, templos de culto a la violencia como medio de cambio (que son
mayormente retógrados).

Los estudiantes llenos de idealismo inútil e irrazonado fueron la chispa
de una revolución posteriormente maquillada por las agencias de
publicidad con toda la técnica americana que los comunistas han estado
utilizando con gran maestría durante casi medio siglo.

La paradoja es que los líderes sólo les interesaba imponer su poder
absoluto. Una gran mayoría de los cubanos aplaudieron por ilusos por no
usar el cerebro, a una guerra civil terroristas que se mantenía a fuerza
de bombas en lugares públicos, cines, teatros, ómnibus que poco a poco
fueron destruyendo una magnífica estructura económica como era la
cubana, dejando un rastro que ha llevado a la ruina total actual de Cuba.

¿Cómo es que los cubanos fueron tan idiotas como para no darse cuenta
que un movimiento que usa el terror para obtener el poder cuando lo
obtenga va a seguir utilizando el terror para mantenerlo?

Y nada, se repite la historia y la actitud idiota de los pueblos en toda
Latinoamérica. ¿Cómo puede creer un colombiano inteligente que matando
jóvenes inocentes, aterrorizando a un pueblo, obligando a niños a luchar
por ideales falsos, pueda hacer algo para mejorar a la sociedad?

[Pipilenca Guanaco]

Post by Rolf R
Ni oír hablar mierda no come un pueblo hambriento.
A hungry nation does not live by political bullshit!

Después de leerte, entiendo que lo mismo vale para la palabra escrita
que para la hablada: nos llenas de cualquier cosa, menos de lo necesario.

Los curas dicen que la palabra (no mierda), siembra aliento, esperanzas.

Las promesas de desarrollo, democracia y bienestar que el neoliberalismo
capitalista ofreció el siglo pasado, no hay duda que no funcionan, pero
no por ello se les llama mierda. Son simplemente modelos no aplicables y
caducos.

Atte.
Pipilenca