By Donikian

Cindy Sheehan Arrested in Washington

Taken from Radio Havana Cuba

Washington, February 1, 2006-- Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti-war movement, was arrested and removed from the gallery of the U.S. Congress Tuesday night just before President George W. Bush's State of the Union address.

According to a press statement released by Cindy Sheehan herself, the peace activist received a ticket to attend the U.S. president's annual address to the special joint session of Congress. She had on a T-shirt that said "2245 Dead. How many more?" Unzipping her jacket, a police officer saw the shirt and yelled "protester," quickly pulling her out of her seat, handcuffing her and forcing her out of the building.

The statement by Sheehan says she did not purposefully display the T-shirt out of respect for the person who invited her to attend the speech, Democratic representative from California, Lynn Woolsey. First charged with demonstrating in the Capitol building, the charge was later changed to unlawful conduct. Cindy Sheehan was fingerprinted, processed and released from jail after about four hours.

The anti-war activist was arrested in September with more than 300 other demonstrators in front of the White House, protesting the U.S. war of aggression against Iraq. In August, Cindy Sheehan spent 26 days camped near Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, but the U.S. president refused to meet with her.

Protesting the State of the Union address Tuesday night, a group of anti-war demonstrators gathered outside the Capitol and started making noise as Bush began his speech. The group concentrated on the west side of the Capitol grounds for the protest, which was organized under the slogan: "The World Can't Wait -- Drive Out the Bush Regime."

The protesters' Web site urged participants to "Bring the Noise and Drown Out Bush's Lies." When the U.S. president concluded his speech, the noise reached a crescendo as protesters banged pots and pans, shouting: "Bush step down, people rise up." Demonstrators also sang anti-war songs, including "Give Peace a Chance."

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US Finances 41 Terrorist Organizations

Havana, Jan 31, 2006. (Prensa Latina) The US"s government has organized and financed 41 terrorist groups responsible for numerous sabotages and murders since 1959 in its permanent attempt to annihilate the Cuban Revolution.

The Cuban Encyclopedia on Terrorism, recently published in Internet provides wide and detailed information about those Anti Cuban organizations and the economical contributions afforded by Washington.

The encyclopedia referred to the notorious terrorists Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch as CIA"S favorite for this kind of operations and described some of the crimes committed by the counterrevolutionary organizations: Commando L, Council for Cuba"s freedom, Secret Armed Army, the white rose, Omega 7, the secret Cuban government and the Cuban-American National Foundation.

According to the publication, several assassination attempts against Cuban President Fidel Castro, numerous sabotages leaving human deaths, material damages, injured people and families as well as attacks to tourist, commercial and consular institutions have been priorities of the agenda.

The so-called organization Revolutionary Democratic Rescue, also organizing plenty of terrorist acts, had the sad privilege to actively take part in Peter Pan operation, taking more than 14,000 children to the US without their parents under the deception that the Cuban government would take their legal custody off.

Many of those children could never see their parents again and soon faced loneliness and needs in a nation forcing them to be away from their homeland forever.

The US record to organize and finance 41 terrorist groups only addressed to Cuba, without mentioning others with similar objectives working in different countries, clearly defines Washington"s commitment with the terrorism they say they are fighting.

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Bush Violates US Citizens´ Rights

Washington, Jan 21/2006 (Prensa Latina) Facing a growing criticism for spying on US citizens, President George W. Bush Saturday was accused of violating American civil liberties.

A Saturday report from the Californian daily La Opinion also joins the several accusations against the White House of authorizing the National Security Agency to secretly listening to phone conversations.

"There is a big contradiction between what President George W. Bush says about democracy in the United States and what it is really going on in this country," said analyst Humberto Caps from the University of California.

The analyst added that the NSA federal agents may have listened to conversations about business people strategies, economic deals, opposition party members´ political conversations and talks among foreign statesmen and their allies in the US.

Caps said the First Constitutional Amendment clearly states that the US Congress cannot create laws on religion or for violating the freedom of expression, press and organization.

He also added that the first amendment was established to defend individuals from the State´s arbitrary power, which apparently has become White House policy.

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US Border Patrol Commits Felony

Washington, Jan 12, 2006. (Prensa Latina) A report by the US Border Patrol and denouncements by NGOs confirm that actions by that police body directly cost the lives of seven illegal Mexican immigrants in the last 15 months.

La Opinion daily reported that many cases are due to abuse of authority to the point that an immigrant dies every 16 hours from different causes.

Since Washington okayed Operation Guardian 11 years ago, 3,000 people have died trying to cross into US territory through the southern border.

The numbers have been estimated at 500 in the past ten years from shootings, dehydration, drowning, rape, sunstroke or assault.

One-third of the bodies (1,000 at least) have not been identified so they were buried in common graves, informed the California Rural Assistance Foundation.

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