Cuba's Case Against US Interests Section - Docs, Video, Articles - in English and Spanish

[magbana]

FREE THE FIVE presents a series of articles and linked documents backing
up its allegations that USIS Chief Micheal Parmly has brought finances
to the dissidents from Santiago Alvarez, the man who helped Luis Posada
Carriles illegally enter the United States two years ago. Excerpts:

The head of the U.S. mission in Cuba served as an emissary between a top dissident on the island and an exile militant from Miami serving time for weapons possession, the Cuban government announced Monday at a news conference aired live on Cuban radio.

Top Cuban officials released a series of e-mails, which they allege show that dissident Martha Beatriz Roque gets regular financing from Santiago Alvarez, the benefactor and friend of alleged terrorist Luis Posada Carriles. Alvarez's group, Fundación Rescate, also allegedly sent $200 a month to dissident Jorge Luis "Antúnez" García and another $2,400 to the Ladies in White dissident group.

SEVERAL MORE STORIES AND LINKED DOCUMENTS
http://www.freethefive.org/usTerrorism/USTerrFundingDissidents051908.htm

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WALTER LIPPMANN
Los Angeles, California
Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
"Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo"
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[Bacchus39]

1. is Cuba going to impose sanctions on the US?

an embargo or something? aren't remittances to Cuba permitted? I mean Cuba certainly can use that money can't they. those cell phones and pressure cookers are expensive.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Very worth reading. Will be back to read this later. Thank you, magbana. We can really use it. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

3. US groups back Cuba's charges against US diplomats

US groups back Cuba's charges against US diplomats
Posted : Tue, 20 May 2008 19:29:00 GMT
Author : DPA

Washington - A coalition of US activist groups Tuesday charged that the United States has allowed a known terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles, to agitate for violence against Cuba while funnelling tainted money to human rights activists in the Caribbean country. Brian Becker, coordinator of Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism (ANSWER), demanded that the US bring formal terrorism charges against Posada, who has been the subject of requests for extradition for years by Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.

Becker appeared at a press conference with the one-time chief of the US Interests Section in Havana, Wayne Smith; Venezuela's attorney on the Posada extradition, Jose Perteirra; and a group that wants five Cubans jailed in the US to be released.

Their charges came in a week of rising tensions over US-Cuba relations.

On Monday, the Cuban government accused the top US diplomat in Havana, Michael Parmly, of providing money from exiled groups in the United States to dissidents on the communist island.

Cuban officials said Parmley passed money that came from the Miami-based foundation Rescate Juridico, which is reportedly funded by Santiago Alvarez Fernandez-Magrina, an anti-Castro activist jailed in the United States for illegal possession of firearms.

More:
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/206743,us-groups-back-cubas-charges-against-us-diplomats.html

[Judi Lynn]

4. More details released on US Interests chief, Miami support to dissidents

More details released on US Interests chief, Miami support to dissidents
Ray Sanchez | Direct from Havana
8:10 AM EDT, May 20, 2008
Havana



The director of the Security State Historical Investigation Center of Cuba,
Manuel Hevia, presents a video of Cuban opposition leader Marta Beatriz
Roque (R), who allegedly received $1,500 a month from jailed Miami anti-
Castro militant Santiago Alvarez, a close associate of accused terrorist Luis
Posada Carriles. Hevia and other Cuban officials charge the chief of the US
Interests Section, Michael Parmly, carried the money from Miami to Roque.
(AFP/Getty Images, Adalberto Roque / May 19, 2008)

State security surveillance video showed the dissident accused of taking money from the top U.S. diplomat in Havana cutting short a cell phone conversation because credit on her phone was low.

"I'm running out of money on this because I don't have money to buy another card," dissident Martha Beatriz Roque was telling a contact at the U.S. Interests Section.

Her phone credit may have been running out but Cuban officials said Roque was receiving $1,500 a month from Fundacion Rescate Juridico, a nonprofit exile group created by Santiago Alvarez, 66, an exile militant jailed in the United States on weapons charges.

Roque did have time to tell the diplomat on the line that CNN had showed up to cover a small demonstration she was staging outside the Justice Ministry. "CNN, wow!" her contact said.

Cuban officials said outgoing Interests Section chief Michael Parmly delivered money from the Miami-based group to Roque and other dissidents. Alvarez is a benefactor and close associate of reputed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

More:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/cuba/sfl-0520havanadaily,0,7375944.column