Food and agricultural trade from U.S. to Cuba soars

[Say_What]

Another perfect example of ag and farm folks saying f*ck you to the embargo and the Bushistas. As someone quoted in the article put it: ..."It's happening quietly, effectively and routinely,"

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HAVANA - (KRT) - One year after a historic U.S. agricultural trade fair in Havana, U.S. food and agricultural sales to Cuba are soaring even as relations between the two countries are at their lowest point in years.

Archer Daniels Midland Co., the Decatur, Ill.-based food giant, along with dozens of other U.S. companies, have sold more than $125 million in wheat, rice, poultry and other products to Cuba in the first six months of 2003, according to the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council. That compares to $138.6 million for all of 2002, according to the council.

Diplomats and experts said Cuban officials are increasing their purchases of U.S. products because shipping and other costs are far cheaper for American goods than those from Europe, Asia and other distant regions.

But Cuban officials also are trying to boost U.S. agricultural trade - which several years ago was exempted under the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against the Caribbean island - as a way to build pressure in the United States to further ease longstanding economic sanctions, experts said.

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/6961412.htm

[Say_What]

1. Moderate Cuban-Americans not new to embargo debate

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As a former U.S. State Department officer and the opening speaker at the Florida National Summit on Cuba last Saturday, I was dismayed by Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere Roger Noriega's categorical dismissal of the moderate Cuban-American community as ''newcomers'' to the four-decade-old issue of the embargo.

Almost as disturbing was the fact that Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen felt it politically expedient in her comments to the media to take a cheap shot at summit guest Mikhail Gorbachev, who called the embargo ''the last wall'' of the Cold War. In his summit remarks, he urged an end to the U.S. embargo of Cuba.

Reps. Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln and Mario Díaz-Balart and the rest of our political leaders in South Florida base their political stakes on the mistaken belief that their constituencies are static and unwilling to listen and grow. They are offering rhetoric instead of leadership, when we desperately need the latter.

The winds of change are blowing on the island of Cuba. Last week, Varela Project leader Oswaldo Payá delivered 14,384 new signatures to Cuba's legislature, despite the fact that about half of the 42 dissidents unjustly imprisoned by Castro were signature-gathering volunteers. Cubans are changing, and they need our help. Castro is as hard-headed as every other viejito who sincerely believes the embargo is really working -- except he wants it a whole lot more than any other old Cuban because without it, he is pointless.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/6958595.htm

[Say_What]

2. Another article speaking out against the Florida pols

Telling them to 'put up or shut up' about bioweapons in Cuba.


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Once again, this accusation has been made with scant evidence to support it, and that's shameful. There are enough grave issues staring us in the face in Cuba. Complicating matters with unsubstantiated claims only makes the U.S. government look bad and obscures efforts to make progress where it is most needed.

During a Cuba conference in Coral Gables, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, on Saturday charged that Cuba has "amassed weapons of mass destruction." Ros-Lehtinen's accusation is not new. Defectors have raised similar suspicions.

In May of last year, John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, said Cuba had "a limited offensive biological warfare" capability, one that it has shared with "rogue" nations. Bolton, however, did not follow-up his statement with hard, convincing evidence.

Cuba does appear on the State Department's list of states that sponsor terrorism, but mostly because Cuba has granted safe haven to Colombian rebel groups and because it has criticized some U.S. counter-terrorism efforts. The analysis accompanying the Cuba listing does not mention biological or chemical weapons.

<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/editorial/sfl-editafcubawmdoct07,0,1300836.story?coll=sfla-news-editorial>

[Judi Lynn]

13. Looked up the Cuban "exile" who wrote the letter to the editor

He's no Cuban-American slouch!

(snip)José E. Latour was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Miami, Florida. He received his B.S. and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Upon graduation from law school, José served as a U.S. Diplomatic and Consular Officer in Mexico and Africa. He then left the Foreign Service in 1990 to begin private practice. Founding the firm in 1990, José specifically chose to focus upon business and investment-based immigration. He is a recognized expert on U.S. visa law and a speaker at state and national conventions of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

José's hobbies include snowboarding, fishing, gourmet cooking, and, most of all, music. (You can find his personal website here.)

José is of counsel to the firm, serving in an advisory capacity in business development and select corporate client representation.
(snip/...)

http://www.usvisanews.com/staff_joselatour.html



Reading this background really reinforces what I have heard from Miami residents for years, and that is that Miami actually has an entire industry built around the split between the U.S. and Cuba.

If the embargo and travel ban ended, all these people would have to use their talents in new ways. I'm sure that's why many of them are fighting change like madmen! The author of this letter seems to be one of the growing number of forward-looking "exiles."

[Say_What]

17. The anti-Castro industry

run by a very small group of anti-Cuba fanatics who intimidated, murdered, bombed, ruined careers/businesses, and political futures of any who dared speak of dialog or of normalizing relations with the island. For decades the majority of moderate Cuban-Americans lived under their tyranny. One doesn't have to search far to find out the truth about these cretins.

You're right, this young man represents the future of Cuban Miami. The way for him to speak freely (a rather new concept in Batistaville) was paved by folks such as

Bernardo Benes--one of the first to dialog with the island responsible for the release of 3,000 prisoners in the mid 1970s. For this the anti-Cuba fanatics ruined his business--political prisoners were more valuable than ex-political prisoners to the anti-Cuba industry.

Luciano Nieves murdered after advocating peaceful coexistence with Cuba.

Eloy Gutierrez-Menoyo--former founder of Alpha 66 who spent 22 years in as a political prisoner in Cuba and after release denounced violence and founded Cambio Cubano in 1993, which promoted dialog with the island.

Emilio Milan--Whose legs were blown off by a car bomb after he publicly condemned exile violence.

Union Radio employee beaten and station vandalized by exiles looking for Francisco Aruca, who advocates an end to U.S. embargo.

Francisco Aruca--whose business, which arranged travel to Cuba, was bombed.

and many, many more who paved the way for freedom of speech in Miami

The dinosaurs, who came looking for the US to fight their battle with Fidel Castro, are dying off like flies.

Interesting background on José E. Latour, thanks for posting.

[goforit]

3. Whoo..Hooo!!!...Not only f*ck U to the Bushistas but to the Mod.Dems!!

This BERLIN WALL has been up way toooooooo long
with all those BLOCKHEADs with "Commi" phobias!!!!

Embargos have done nothing except promote Castro!!!!

Betcha those Anti-Castro Miamians have heartburn right now!!!
They deserve it!!!!

[Say_What]

11. Heartburn bigtime and Jorge Mas Canosa must be spinning in his grave

all that well known intimidation, murder, and bombings for nothing. All Jorge wanted was for the US to invade Cuba so he could then take over as president--and guess what.. he died. I can just hear Radio Mambi now--I'm sure they're experiencing mass hysteria in Gusanoville.

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Indiana Farmers Pledge to Oppose Cuba Embargo

HAVANA (Reuters) - The Indiana Farm Bureau signed a commitment to work for the repeal of trade and travel sanctions against Communist-run Cuba on Wednesday in return for a Cuban pledge to buy $15 million in agricultural products.

Cuban officials said they have spent $512 million on food imports from 35 U.S. states in two years after a four-decade-old trade embargo against President Fidel Castro's government was relaxed by the U.S. Congress.

Indiana Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh, heading a agricultural and business delegation to Havana, said trading with Cuba was the best was to promote "positive change" on the Caribbean island, the hemisphere's only Communist state.

Efforts to abolish the Cold War sanctions against Cuba has run into stiff opposition in the Bush administration, which has threatened to veto any steps to ease the embargo until Castro allows democratic reforms.

<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=3580899>

[goforit]

22. Well this is all good news to me!!!...Is the US what you call a democracy?

Promote a Democracy in Cuba while we sit in a BANANA REPUBLIC!!!

Dream on phoney politicians!!!

[Say_What]

26. Good news to me too. An intersting thing on the telly

earlier this week when they were interviewing folks about the governor groper thing. They talked with an elderly couple who had both survived prison camps and their remark was "this is no democracy"--and that's how I've felt for a long time. The USSA--soon to be the next third world country. http://www.projectcensored.org/Publications/2004/21.html

[Vogon_Glory]

4. Just Goes to Show that Thanks to Republicans

Just goes to show that thanks to Republicans and the hard-line anti-Castro Cuban exiles, a pig or cow can travel to Cuba but you can't.
:silly:

[yorgatron]

5. OK,so how do i go about

trading vintage auto parts for cigars?

[Osolomia]

20. Jeff Flake (R) has been leading the fight for your freedom to travel

REPUBLICAN Jeff Flake has been leading the fight for your freedom to travel to Cuba for over 4 years now. Just last month a bipartisan majority in the House that includes 53 Republicans voted for Flake’s amendment while 22 Democrats voted against giving you the same freedom to travel that Bush has given to the Cuban-American “exiles”!

A bipartisan majority in the Senate is expected to vote for this amendment any week now despite the fact that Bush vows to veto it and all the leading 2004 Democratic presidential contenders are still pandering to the extremist “exile” minority instead too.

It’s rather hypocritical to bash the moronic Repukes when the silence of the Dem leadership and their supporters is just as complicit don’t you think?

[Mika]

6. Jaime Suchlicki is a real rocket scientist

From the lead article, http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/6961412.htm

"It's an attempt to undermine the embargo," said Jaime Suchlicki, a Cuba expert at the University of Miami. "There is a political motivation as well as an economic motivation."

Gee, do ya think? Jaime Suchlicki is a real rocket scientist.

For most Cubans, the struggle to put food on the table and make ends meet remains paramount.

Complete bullshit! Tell me when have you EVER seen Cuban immigrants (rafters of smuggled in) arrive in the US that are skinny or malnourished? I have never seen starving hungry people in Cuba. Because Americans are forbidden by the US gov from going to Cuba they don't know that Cubans are not starving at all. The intention of Cuba's AG purchases is to improve the overall variety of foodstuff available to Cubans.

While today, in America, the poor do struggle to put food on the table and struggle get their kids a meal before school and make ends meet. In addition, unlike every single Cuban in Cuba, the poor in America get zero health care coverage and those in the middle class lose everything if a medical catastrophy were to hit.

At one point, Castro was mobbed as he toured the exhibition hall and stopped at the Archer Daniels Midland booth, where he sampled a chocolate milkshake, French fries and a hamburger each containing a soy protein ingredient produced by the company.

Yep, Castro is a hated man, held in contempt world wide (not).

Only in Miami.

[Say_What]

7. I didn't know until recently that Jaime Suchlicki is actually a BACARDI

Think he has an agenda?? No, couldn't be. </sarcasm>
From the NED/USAID-funded Center for a Free Cuba website:

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Jaime Suchlicki is the Emilio Bacardi Moreau Professor of History and International Studies and the Director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami.

http://www.cubacenter.org/media/recent_briefs/us_embargo.php3

[Mika]

9. ICCAS at the University of Miami = Casa Bacardi = Otto Reich = CIA

http://casabacardi.iccas.miami.edu/

Pure swill. On our dime too.

[Say_What]

12. October 9, 1968 --for those of us who remember

the day Che was assasinated in Bolivia.

Received via email:
*********************************

Requiem to a Brave Man
By Diego M. Vidal

See web site on Che: http://www.cubasi.cu/che/index.htm

By midday on October 8, 1967, two battalions of Bolivian
rangers, a squad of soldiers and over 200 top officials of
the arm forces found Che and his guerrilla-fighters in a
mountainous area at the time, the latter intended to camp
somewhere at the bottom of the valley expecting to get rid
of the siege set by the Government’s troops..

The dreadful fight started late in the evening, while
Commander Ernesto Che Guevara remained on the front line in
a painful attempt, he had been shot in one leg, to back up
the withdrawal of a small group of his men, shooting and at
the same time trying to help El Chino find his way out in
the darkness, the young man had become fully blind.

Arturo, Antonio and Pacho bravely faced the heavy shooting,
but the first two were deadly shot and died almost
immediately while the third one was seriously wounded.

Being Che’s M-2 rifle got completely destroyed and empty
his pistol magazine he was soon captured alongside Willi
and El Chino Chang. Sargent Benardino Huanca hit hard Che
on the chest several times and pointed at him to kill him
right there but Willy Cuba’s decisive action prevented Che
from being killed at point blank.

The head of battalion A, Captain Gary Prado commanded La
Higuera guerrilla-fighters were moved out from that place
which had become a historical scenery.

Che was locked up in a classroom of a small rural school
together with the corpse Antonio and Arturo.

Gary Prado and Cornel Andrés Selich interrogated and hit
him for endless hours no matter his hands were tied up at
his back.

Despite the order was to keep him alive at any rate, a gang
of drunk soldiers attempted to kill him included Mario
Terán and Bernardino Huanca. Once again Che was prevented
from being assassinated this time by Gary Prado and Miguel
Ayoroa, Bolivian military officials.

Che is once more brutally interrogated now by the Cuban CIA
official Félix Rodríguez, but the latter making a supreme
effort replied bravely to his insults and hits by calling
him traitor and mercenary.

Meanwhile General Barrientos met with his counterparts
Alfredo Ovando, Juan José Torres and Cornels Vázquez
Sempértigui and David la Fuente, Commander of the Air
Forces León Kolle Cueto and Counter-Admiral Horacio
Ugarteche who finally accorded to kill Che.

By midday October 9, 1967 the Bolivian soldiers Bernardino
Huanca, Mario Terán and Carlos Pérez Panoso accepted being
the ones who would kill Che. The First assassinated were
Bolivian and Peruvian guerrilla-fighters Willy Cuba and
Pablo Chino Chang respectively.

At 13 hours, Mario Terán came in the classroom where Che
was kept badly wounded, helped him to stand up and after
ten hideous minutes Che was shot down by a sudden burst of
shots and so did each of the ones who witnessed the killing
included the CIA agent.

Following countless of unthinkable vexations and tortures
committed by those mad beats full of hatred, Che’ hands
were cut off, his corpse exposed to the media’s camera
flashes and the Valle Grande local people’s astonished and
curious sight. On the 10th, the mortal remains of the
bravest guerrilla-fighter of all times on earth alongside
his men were buried in a trench made somehow not far from
the airport runway at dawn.

Turned into a legend, a myth and most prominent symbol of
fighting and freedom worldwide, no doubt Commander Ernesto
Che Guevara serves as an unforgettable example that goes
far beyond geographical borders and time.

Over the last 36 years, the image of Che Guevara has also
turned into a stronghold for rebelliousness and ever since
May 1968 demonstrations, outbreaks and marches that took
place in France through underground fights developed in
Latin-America in the 1970s and the 20th century protests
against imperialist wars, the poor peoples have followed
Che’s footsteps.

Moreover today’s dominant policies of annexionism imposed
by Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) or the military
interventionist war unleashed on Iraq or the projected and
well-minded counter-insurgent Plan Colombia and lots of
more aggressive programs applied in almost everywhere in
the world by the super-powerful countries is a clear proof
Che’s premonitory thoughts about the imperialism are valid,
up and going and keep vivid in the international
consciousness.

Cubasi Translation Staff

[Say_What]

18. Bacardi, Helm-Burton, and Otto Reich

a book released last year details the role of the Bacardi family in terrorism against Cuba as well as the Helms-Burton, which Reich had a hand in building, and other anti-Cuba legislation.

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...Senior Bacardi figures have been instrumental in supporting the 1996 Helms-Burton legislation, which outlined what Cuba must do to be regarded as a democracy by the US and attain diplomatic recognition. The law made it an offence for foreigners to invest in properties nationalised by Mr Castro, and denied US visas to the directors of any firms that did so.

In congressional circles the legislation was referred to as the Bacardi bill. Top Bacardi figures mounted fundraisers for Senator Jesse Helms, one architect of the law. In 1975 the head of Bacardi's Miami subsidiary co-hosted a $500-a-plate fundraiser for Mr Helms that netted $75,000.

Instrumental in building that legislation was Otto Reich, who this year was appointed by President George Bush as the assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs, despite opposition from the Senate foreign relations committee. Before taking this job Mr Reich worked for the firm of lobbyists used by Bacardi to advance its aims. He has been an active proponent of toppling the Cuban government and "has been more helpful than any other diplomat on behalf of the Canf, and particularly the Bacardi multinational", writes Calvo Ospina.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/GWeekly/Story/0,3939,778391,00.html

[Mika]

19. Thanks for posting that link, Say What

And now there's the U of M and F.I.U in Miami "Cuba studies" programs, funded with our tax dollars (ouch!) by the NED.

[Judi Lynn]

21. Speaking of Bacardi

An occassional D.U. poster has called attention to both the news clip about Jeb Bush, and a link to the "Casa Bacardi" built by Bacardi Rum guys at the University of Miami:

(snip)
BIG MAN ON CAMPUS

Gov. Jeb Bush is opening an office on the University of Miami campus in Coral Gables -- in Casa Bacardi, home of UM's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies.

''Gives the governor an opportunity when he's traveling to reach out to constituents,'' says press secretary Alia Faraj. And it's convenient to a $154,000 condo he and wife Columba own at University Inn, across the highway from UM. The guv also has an office at Florida International University -- in the library of the main campus. (snip/)

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/joan_fleischman/6760131.htm

http://casabacardi.iccas.miami.edu/Exhibit.htm

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It's not as if Jeb Bush has ever hidden his complete attachment to the Cuban "exiles."

[Judi Lynn]

16. Thought you might find this article interesting, considering circumstances

It was written the month after _Bush became pResident. It's simply ASTONISHING to see the difference in tone between that adate, February 13, 2001, and NOW that _Bush has taken over.

You'd never know, from reading this article, that Cuba was due to be nailed onto the PNAC "terrorist" list, and accused of every possible manner of terrorism by the right-wing psychopaths in _Bush's collection of smash and grabbers.

Airlines fancy flights to Cuba

U.S. charter flights carry a rapidly growing number of visitors to Cuba annually, as major carriers try to position themselves for the start of unfettered travel to the island

By John Schmeltzer | Tribune Staff Writer
Posted February 13, 2001


MIAMI -- For phone operator Betty Hernandez, it was the most expensive 90-mile trip of her life.

Among the mountain of luggage she dragged through Miami International Airport recently, one bag held $2,000 in cash. Others held thousands of dollars worth of clothing and medicine for needy relatives. Stuffed in her purse were the costly travel documents clearing the way for her first visit to Havana since her family fled communism in 1965.

And, in some ways the most valuable of all, she held the $379 ticket for a 45-minute Miami-to-Havana plane ride aboard a United Airlines charter flight.

The 45-year-old Hernandez is among a growing cadre of Americans buying tickets for charter flights and making the once-forbidden puddle jump to Fidel Castro's Cuba from the U.S.

Since the two governments started easing travel restrictions in 1999, thousands of passengers have flown to Cuba on chartered aircraft ranging from 19-seat Beechcrafts to United's huge Boeing 777s.

On any given day, at least two flights depart Miami International for Havana. And during Christmas or Easter, the number soars to as many as 12 daily. (snip/...)

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/destinations/sns-cubaflights,0,5385892.story?coll=orl-travel-headlines-destin

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Jaime Suchlicki is one hell of a spinning propagandist. Too bad he never found any interst in honest work in life.

[Judi Lynn]

23. Mika, found a photo of Jaime Suchlicki

Mr. Propaganda

[Mika]

25. Thanks

A real looker, isn't he.

[Say_What]

8. U.S. senator calls for expanded trade, democratic opening in Cuba

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HAVANA - Indiana made a deal to sell $15 million of goods to communist Cuba Wednesday as U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh declared that expanded American trade with and travel to the island could create a democratic opening.

"I support expanding trade between our two nations as the best way to promote and secure our mutual prosperity," Bayh, an Indiana Democrat, told an afternoon news conference.

"It is our belief that increased economic interaction is the best way to promote positive change" in Cuba, said Bayh. "An absence of economic interaction has been tried for 40 years, without success," he added, referring to the U.S. trade embargo against the island.

Bayh told international journalists there was no contradiction between his meeting Tuesday with democracy activist Oswaldo Paya and his business meetings with Cuban officials Wednesday as the head of an Indiana farm delegation.

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/breaking_news/6964768.htm

[Say_What]

10. Cuba is now among top 20 buyers of US Corn

The crack in the 40+ year old wall between the US and the island is getting wider and wider. Not long now before the entire wall crumbles away.

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Cuba ranked 16th among overseas destinations of US corn in the marketing year that just ended, says a representative of the Iowa Corn Promotion Board and Iowa Corn Growers who visited that nation on a trade mission in late September.

In the last year Cuba bought 11 million bushels of US corn and on the most recent trade mission, Iowa-based FCStone sold $8 million worth of corn and soybeans, says Don Mason of the Iowa Corn Growers. The US share of Cuba's food imports has grown from nothing in 2000 to 25% last year.

"This market shows signs of being much better yet," Mason said Wednesday.

The tourist trade in Cuba, which uses imported foods from the US and other nations, is building back from the post 9/ll slump. And the Cuban government has imported high quality dairy breeding stock in an effort to produce more milk on the island. That, too, should improve the chances of exporting more US feed grains to the communist nation.

<http://www.agriculture.com/default.sph/AgNews.class?FNC=goDetail__ANewsindex_html___50709___1>

[Judi Lynn]

14. A good, short article for Democratic newcomers to Cuban-American politics

{snip) Miami's Cuban Americans May Get The Last Word

By Peter Dale Scott

Date: 12-04-00
The Clinton administration willingness to defy Miami's Cuban-American community in the case of Elian Gonzales was widely seen as a sign that the community had lost its political muscle. But the decision to stop recounting votes in Miami-Dade suggests that it's the Cuban Americans who are getting the last word. PNS correspondent Peter Dale Scott is author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK and co-author of Cocaine Politics. Scott's website is http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott.


The Clinton administration's hard-nosed action in returning six-year-old Elian Gonzales to his family in Cuba was widely interpreted as a sign that Miami's Cuban American community was losing its political clout.

But in fact bitterness over that action may have cost Al Gore the presidency -- even though he broke with the administration over the decision to let Elian return home.

The Miami-Dade refusal to recount votes can certainly be seen as one more blow in the fight over Elian that supposedly ended last spring.

Miami Mayor Alex Penelas led the Cuban American revolt against the Justice Department last spring. Elections supervisor David Leahy of the Miami-Dade Canvassing Board, who voted to stop the recount, works for Mr. Penelas. (snip/...)

http://pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/6.24/001204-miamis.html

[Judi Lynn]

15. Miami-Dade Reversal -- A Cuban Terrorist Payback To Bush Family?

Miami-Dade Reversal -- A Cuban Terrorist Payback To Bush Family?

By Peter Dale Scott

Date: 12-07-00
Strident broadcasts from a violently anti-Castro radio station influenced the Miami-Dade Canvassing Board's decision to reverse itself and vote to stop recounting ballots. The radio station's founding was sponsored by the Reagan-Bush administration. PNS correspondent Peter Dale Scott is author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK and co-author of Cocaine Politics. Scott's website is http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott.

If Gov. George W. Bush wins the presidency because votes in Miami-Dade County were not recounted, consider it a payback for past favors granted Cuban terrorists by George Bush Sr.

When the Miami-Dade Canvassing Board reversed itself and voted to stop recounting ballots, at least one of the three members said his decision was influenced by the vehement protests of Radio Mambi.

This stridently anti-Communist station is an arm of the violently anti-Castro Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), founded in 1981 by a former CIA terrorist, Jorge Mas Canosa, with the encouragement (some say, at the behest) of the newly elected Reagan-Bush administration. (snip/...)

http://pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/6.24/001207-miami-dade.html

[ReadTomPaine]

24. I wonder... is it GMO?