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Only in Miami: Terrorists and Singers Parade Together

CUBA, April 2, 2010. - The mastermind behind the bombing in mid-air of a Cuban civilian aircraft and a torturer in the Venezuelan secret police, Luis Posada Carriles, a drug trafficker involved in the Iran-Contra scandal, participated in a march organized by musician Gloria Estefan in Miami on Thursday, in support of Cuban "dissidents" on the payroll of the U.S. Department of State.

The former CIA operative, responsible for the death of dozens of young Latin Americans during the time he oversaw political cleansing campaigns in Venezuela, El Salvador, and Guatemala, joined his peers, mostly senior people, of the Cuban-American National Foundation, Alpha 66, F-4 Comandos, Brothers to the Rescue, and diverse anti-Cuba, USAID-funded NGOs in the "Little Havana" demonstration.

Gloria Estefan confessed her links with the CIA last August. In an interview with Telemundo’s television program "Al rojo vivo", she confessed that the CIA had approached her when she worked as a customs agent in the Miami airport.

She explained then that her father, Jose Fajardo, had been a bodyguard for Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista before fleeing the island, later to be recruited as a mercenary in the failed, CIA-organized Bay of Pigs invasion.

One year ago, Estefan and her spouse, producer Emilio Estefan, were accused by a Dominican newspaper of investing in a human trafficking scheme between Cuba and Mexico, which connected them with illegal operations carried out by the Cuban-American National Foundation and the Mexican Gulf Cartel.

Local Miami politicians like Mayor Tomas Regalado and Senate candidate Marco Rubio took part in the march alongside Gloria and her husband Emilio Estefan.

Posada Carriles, who claims he suffers from several health problems that prevent him from traveling by road to El Paso for an upcoming trial, marched alongside other figures who have been accused of being authors of terrorist acts or participants in distinct CIA paramilitary attacks against Cuba. (Cubaminrex – Granma Daily)

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