A Profile of US State Terrorism Against Cuba

A Profile of US State Terrorism Against Cuba

By Ihosvanny Cordoves ihoscordo@gmail.com


Usually when the word terrorism is used people tend to think of the 9/11 or the blasts in London and Madrid. The mainstream media hardly ever points to Washington's policy against Cuba as an example of such bloody violence.


Entire books have been written on the stubborn attempt by 10 US administrations to topple the revolution using right wing organizations in Miami as the US foot soldiers.


The outright terrorism is in addition to the 45-year economic, financial and trade blockade designed to asphyxiate the island and force Cubans to turn to capitalism. The following facts speak for themselves:

Recently declassified US government documents show that between October 1960 and April 1961, the CIA smuggled in 75 tons of explosives into Cuba during 30 clandestine air operations and infiltrated 45 tons of weapons and explosives during 31 sea incursions. Also during that short seven-month time span, the CIA and its agents carried out 110 dynamite attacks, planted 200 bombs, derailed six trains and burned 150 factories and 800 plantations.


Between 1959 and 1997, the United States carried out a total of 5,780 terrorist acts against Cuba – 804 of them of considerable magnitude, including 78 bombings against the civilian population that caused thousands of victims.


Terrorist attacks against Cuba have cost 3,478 lives and have left 2,099 people permanently disabled. Between 1959 and 2003, there were 61 hijackings of planes or boats. Between 1961 and 1996, there were 58 attacks from the sea against 67 economic targets and the population.


The CIA has trained and funded over 4,000 individuals in 299 paramilitary groups. They are responsible for 549 murders and thousands of people wounded.


In 1971, after a biological attack, half a million pigs had to be slaughtered to prevent the spreading of swine fever. In 1981, the introduction of dengue fever hit 344,203 people, killing 158 including 101 children. On July 6, 1982, 11,400 cases were reported on one day alone.


Most of these aggressions were prepared in Florida by the CIA-trained and financed Cuban-American groups that have terror as their trademark.


Terrorism cannot be considered solely from the perspective of fundamentalist groups like Al-Qaeda. In case anyone still wants to turn a blind eye to the plight of Cuba because they dislike its socialist system, there is plenty of fresh evidence in Iraq that proves how the US government commits blatant atrocities on a daily basis, something the world and especially Americans should not ignore.





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