I decided to write and appeal to you when, on August 25th, the president of the Republic of Panama, Mireya Moscoso, in league with the government of the United States and the extreme right-wing of Miami, pardoned four terrorists of Cuban origin. She did this in violation of Panamanian and international law, pardoning men who had been tried and condemned in her country for planning an attack on President Fidel Castro in November 2000 which would have also involved the deaths of hundreds of Panamanians.

On August 26th three of these terrorists were loudly welcomed in Miami. The press didn’t report the arrival of the head of the group, Luis Posada Carriles, who is responsible – among other excesses – of the destruction in flight of a Cuban civilian aircraft off the coast of Barbados in 1976 with the loss of all 73 on board. For this crime he remains a fugitive from Venezuelan justice (the plane had originated in Caracas).

For him, nonetheless, there is no safer place than Miami, on whose streets walk many other terrorists of Cuban origin – among them Orlando Bosch Ávila who, with Posada Carriles, was also responsible for the crime in Barbados. Bosch was pardoned for his crimes in 1990 by then President George Bush (senior), even though Bush had to counter an express order of the United States Attorney general to expel Bosch who was considered the most dangerous terrorist on the continent.

Bush Senior made this decision at the behest of his son Jeb, who was seeking to curry favor with extremists in the Cuban American community in the hope of being elected governor. In association with these elements, Jeb Bush went on to win the governorship, which he still enjoys today. It is a long-standing tradition of the Bush family to protect these terrorists and then use their support in political maneuvers.

If I’d been able to cooperate with you on the script of your outstanding film Fahrenheit 9/11, where you so brilliantly unmask George W. Bush’s so called “anti-terrorist war”, I would have recommended that you also examined what happened in the United States in December 2001, when the government of Old Father Bush’s son imposed four life sentences plus 75 years on five men – two of them US citizens – for combating the terrorists and terrorism protected by the White House.

I’m sure you were unaware of this judicial fraud that took place in Miami. Incredibly, in the sentences against the US citizens the judge remarked:
“As a special additional condition for parole, they must not associate with or visit certain places where individuals or groups such as terrorists are present or may visit…”

I realize this prohibition is confusing, seeing as none of the defendants were judged or sentenced for any crime related to terrorism. The fact is that this ruling was designed to protect those terrorists who have been financed and organized for years by agencies of the US government and whose criminal activities these five men were trying to prevent.

The above-mentioned restriction was imposed by the judge on René González Sehwerert and Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez (sons of Cuban immigrants born in Chicago and Miami respectively) because they are US citizens and cannot be expelled from the United States when they are released.

As for Fernando González Llort (it is worth saying that he was monitoring the criminal activities of the previously mentioned terrorist Bosch Ávila), Gerardo Hernández Nordelo and Ramón Labañino Salazar, they are not US citizens; can be expelled and so the restriction wasn’t necessary.

I must inform you, Michael, that it was the Attorney (that is, the government) who asked the judge to ban your countrymen René and Antonio from fighting terrorism on US soil (and I remind you that all this took place only three months after September 11). In addition, the government does not imprison those same terrorists, although as the judge admitted, they know exactly where they are.

Although this method of protecting terrorists of Cuban origin who operate against our country from Southern Florida is new, they have always enjoyed impunity for their crimes. For the sake of brevity and because a great deal of information is already in the public sphere, I will not go further into this issue. For the same reasons, I won’t speak of the many irregularities that occurred during the judicial process which is now pending appeal before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, whose judges are probably under severe pressure to support injustice.

With this unprecedented condemnation of anti-terrorist fighters who informed Cuban authorities about criminal plans against the island, the US government is trying to legitimize impunity for terrorism that is not only anti-Cuban but also anti-American. In their long war against Cuba, these criminal elements have carried out hundreds of terrorist actions in your country, of which 186 have affected US or foreign interests and have caused the death of dozens of people, including US citizens.

This is not surprising coming from people who were involved in scandals such as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair and the electoral fraud in Florida that gave the US presidency to George W. Bush. These same people, with the support they maintain within the United States, lead the authorities of other countries into discredit by making them accomplices and protectors of terrorism, as happened with Mireya Moscoso.

My request, if you read this message, is that you acknowledge it as a warning to those who have unjustly imprisoned the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters about whose case, oddly enough, the US mainstream media has said nothing. We Cubans admire your acerbic accusations in Fahrenheit 9/11 and share the aspiration of the President of the Cuban Parliament Ricardo Alarcón, expressed on the day your documentary was broadcast on Cuban television, that this topic attracts your attention, stimulates your investigators appetite and inspires you to create another devastating attack on injustice, crime and double standards.